askant

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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

Can I dream of intruding upon a class of men who will ever look at me askant?

From Problematic Characters A Novel by Spielhagen, Friedrich

But the good folk of Kilfinane eye us terribly askant, or, to be more literally exact, do not eye us at all; at least, their eyes betray "no speculation."

From Disturbed Ireland Being the Letters Written During the Winter of 1880-81. by Becker, Bernard H.

Old Peter Thomas—who seemed to have become crystallized, as it were, in age and decrepitude, and advanced no further in either—was pottering around the garden, eying askant, like an old robin, the new plough furrows.

From Jerome, A Poor Man A Novel by Freeman, Mary Eleanor Wilkins

"Not I," said Leicester, looking askant at the picture.

From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 18, No. 106, August, 1866 by Various