Both Uses of
askance
in
The Iliad by Homer (translated by: Lang, Leaf, & Myers)
- Yea, that were my desire, and it were far better than thus to be our shame and looked at askance of all men.†
Book 3 *
- There Helen took her seat, the child of aegis-bearing Zeus, and with eyes turned askance spake and chode her lord: "Thou comest back from battle; would thou hadst perished there, vanquished of that great warrior that was my former husband.†
Book 3
Definition:
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(askance) with disapproval, distrust, or suspicion
or:
directed to one side -- especially a sideways glance