- a variation of askance.
askant
Example Sentences
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"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 Alexandre Dumas père
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 Robert H. Newell
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 George Parsons Lathrop
Whilst he was walking to and fro, Crockston passed him several times, looking at him askant with a satisfied grin.
From The Blockade Runners by N. D'Anvers
Who are they, as bats and night-dogs, askant in the Capitol?
From Poems By Walt Whitman by William Michael Rossetti
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