askant

How To Use askant In A Sentence

• 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. Bleak House
• His body stretched, it strained upward and askant in a little epiphany of bright expectation. THE BODY ARTIST
• 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. The Mystery of Edwin Drood
• The ass stopped munching, and looked askant at the Squire. International Miscellany of Literature, Art and Science, Vol. 1, No. 3, Oct. 1, 1850
• It may be suggested, in tones of some remonstrance, that things like "though pierced by the cruel acerb," or "thy fleetingness is bigger in the ghost," or "her gabbling grey she eyes askant," or "sheer film of the surface awag" are not taking Nature naturally. The Victorian Age in Literature
• STORY replied, "Of course they all reject you," STORY looked at TRUTH, eyes a bit askant. Where the Experts in the Worlds of Story Meet
• ‘Forty – two,’ replied the driver, eyeing him askant. The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club