askant

Example Sentences

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Who are they, as bats and night-dogs, askant in the Capitol?

From Poems By Walt Whitman by Rossetti, William Michael

Barbara turned grave directly; he eyed her askant, and saw the random shot had gone home.

From International Short Stories English by Various

But the eternal father throned on high With fear fill'd Ajax; panic-fixt he stood,655 His seven-fold shield behind his shoulder cast, And hemm'd by numbers, with an eye askant, Watchful retreated.

From The Iliad of Homer Translated into English Blank Verse by William Cowper by Cowper, William

Some of the old houses that stand endwise to the street, looking askant at the passer,—especially if he is a stranger in town,—might be veritable treasuries of this sort of material.

From A Study of Hawthorne by Lathrop, George Parsons

"Up all night, I presume," eyeing him askant.

From Madeline Payne, the Detective's Daughter by Lynch, Lawrence L.