askant

Example Sentences

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

From International Short Stories English by Various

Spirituality does not light it; evanescent dreams are its oil-lamps, often with wick askant in the socket.

From The English Stage Being an Account of the Victorian Drama by Filon, Augustin

"But," said D'Artagnan, looking askant at Brienne, "you do not know perhaps, monsieur, that I have the privilege of entrée anywhere, and at any hour."

From The Vicomte de Bragelonne Or Ten Years Later being the completion of "The Three Musketeers" And "Twenty Years After" by Dumas père, Alexandre

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

It was a community of men of the same mind who were even looked askant upon by the Government.

From Withered Leaves. Vol. I. (of III) A Novel by Gottschall, Rudolf von