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"Askant" Quotes from Famous Books

... lost the town records," stammered he, and he looked askant at the man like a fox caught near ...

— The Cloister and the Hearth • Charles Reade

... cautious shunn'd The encounter of the Telamonian Chief. But the eternal father throned on high With fear fill'd Ajax; panic-fixt he stood, 655 His seven-fold shield behind his shoulder cast, And hemm'd by numbers, with an eye askant, Watchful retreated. As a beast of prey Retiring, turns and looks, so he his face Turn'd oft, retiring slow, and step by step. 660 As when the watch-dogs and assembled swains Have driven a tawny lion from the stalls, Then, interdicting him his wish'd repast, Watch ...

— The Iliad of Homer - Translated into English Blank Verse • Homer

... "I saw askant the armies, I saw as in noiseless dreams hundreds of battle-flags, Borne through the smoke of the battles and pierced with missiles I saw them, And carried hither and yon through the smoke, and torn and bloody, And at last but a few shreds left on the staffs (and all in silence), And the ...

— The Nine-Tenths • James Oppenheim

... caused Mrs. Gaunt very serious anxiety. 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 ...

— The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 17, No. 103, May, 1866 • Various

Words linked to "Askant" : squint, squint-eyed, sidelong, asquint, indirect