askant

Example Sentences

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The actors gathered in groups and looked askant.

From Mistress Nell A Merry Tale of a Merry Time by Hazelton, George C.

"Has the Squire offered us a home?" she questioned eagerly, eyeing her daughter askant.

From The Night Riders A Thrilling Story of Love, Hate and Adventure, Graphically Depicting the Tobacco Uprising in Kentucky by Wood, Henry C.

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

I glanced at him askant, my boy, and says I, innocently, "I see a still better reason for your clothing yourself for battle in newspapers."

From The Orpheus C. Kerr Papers. Series 3 by Newell, Robert H.

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

From Poems By Walt Whitman by Rossetti, William Michael