askant

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He saw Zalia look askant because he did not go on working and, to account for his resting, drew his whetstone from his trouser-pocket and began slowly to sharpen the sickle.

From The Path of Life by Teixeira de Mattos, Alexander

The Valley soldiers were largely of the Presbyterian faith, and of a solemn, pious demeanor, and looked askant at the caperings of my Creoles, holding them to be "devices and snares."

From Destruction and Reconstruction: Personal Experiences of the Late War by Taylor, Richard

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

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

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

When He provided none, they stopped speculating, and went on as sharply askant as hens at any smaller good pecks life might have for them.

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