At all the more public pumps there is much cooling of bare feet, together with much bubbling and gurgling of drinking with hand to spout on the part of these Bedouins; the Cloisterham police meanwhile looking askant from their beats with suspicion, and manifest impatience that the intruders should depart from within the civic bounds, and once more fry themselves on the simmering high – roads. ❋ Unknown (2007)
‘Forty – two,’ replied the driver, eyeing him askant. ❋ Unknown (2007)
After a few more puffs at his pipe, the trooper looks down askant at the little man, and the little man winks up at the trooper. ❋ Unknown (2007)
STORY replied, "Of course they all reject you," STORY looked at TRUTH, eyes a bit askant. ❋ Unknown (2006)
His body stretched, it strained upward and askant in a little epiphany of bright expectation. ❋ DON DELILLO (2001)
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." ❋ Richard Taylor (N/A)
The good-natured fat man gets down from his high seat, and receives her with pious congratulations; the man in the spectacles looks askant, and advances with extended hand. ❋ Unknown (N/A)
His clothes hung loose on his wasting frame; his face was of one uniform sallow tint, like a maniac's; and he sat silent for hours beside his wife, eying her askant from time to time like a surly mastiff guarding some treasure. ❋ Various (N/A)
In this temper we may dwell only on the guilt and misery and defilements, the wounds and bruises and putrefying sores of the heathen world; or if aught better is brought under our eye, we may look askant and suspiciously upon it, as though all recognition of it were a disparagement of something better. ❋ Frank F. Ellinwood (N/A)
The ass stopped munching, and looked askant at the Squire. ❋ Various (N/A)
I could see askant that the tiny nostrils were quivering with excitement. ❋ Various (N/A)
'Well,' said Steinberg, puffing at his eternal cigar, and looking askant at Barter under the light of a street-lamp which they happened to be nearing at the moment, 'what you've got to do, you know, is to find the man who knows Mr. Bommaney.' ❋ David Christie Murray (N/A)
She was desperately conscious of me, watching me askant with the curiously commingled fear and trustfulness of a child. ❋ Various (N/A)
"Not I," said Leicester, looking askant at the picture. ❋ Various (N/A)
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." ❋ Bernard H. Becker (N/A)
"Mamma," said she, her eyes cast down, her head askant like a shy bird's, "I am afraid I have a lover!" ❋ Various (N/A)
