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  • He looked askance at my luggage-less state, but then shrugged, not caring enough to ask.†   (source)
  • Anyone who has ever had to watch a loved one deteriorate after a massive stroke will no doubt look askance at the very idea of such frustration and misery being in some way intriguing, fascinating, or picturesque, and quite rightly.†   (source)
  • Dayna looked askance at Hillary, then back to Mae.†   (source)
  • Seni answered the door and looked askance at him.†   (source)
  • She suspects the motives of all mainlanders, looks askance at their apparent acts of goodwill.†   (source)
  • As much as Carter annoyed me, I hated it when people assumed we weren't related, or looked at my father askance when he said the three of us were a family—like we'd done something wrong.†   (source)
  • Beside me, Tariq looks askance at Keenan.†   (source)
  • Nelson looked askance at diversity training and opposed offering any "special treatment" for refugees, particularly in the arena of traffic violations.†   (source)
  • Although," he added, looking askance at Bert, "it would be nice if we had an idea when it would be safe to return."†   (source)
  • They scampered for their things in panic, stooping hurriedly and looking askance at each gentle, knee-high wave bubbling in as though some ugly, red, grisly organ like a liver or a lung might come washing right up against them.†   (source)
  • To look at him was like reading a relic typeface, like the first letter-block of a book, maybe the letter Y, his frame bent a little sideways as though a mule had fought one arm, the wide shoulders set back, curiously askance, a physical assemblage that belied his uncowering nature.†   (source)
  • Alessan-dro looked askance at Nicolo.†   (source)
  • DRUMMOND (Askance) I don't know if the dignity of the court can be upheld with these galluses I've got on.†   (source)
  • Eugene looked askance at a flower seller: where had the seasons gone?†   (source)
  • There were the occasional looks askance, of course, sneers from people upon hearing his accent.†   (source)
  • No one noticed the ghost, but the locals looked askance at Nico.†   (source)
  • Now it was Eragon's turn to look askance.†   (source)
  • He opened his left eye, just his left eye, and looked at Nicolo askance.†   (source)
  • But the learned journals still look askance at typescripts, so I'm doomed.†   (source)
  • HORNBECK (Askance) Well, what do you know!†   (source)
  • She looked askance at Jason.†   (source)
  • The young man looked askance at Arya, then cautiously made his way to the center of the patterned disk, casting apprehensive glances at the egg that was rocking back and forth.†   (source)
  • When Reznak and Skahaz appeared, she found herself looking at them askance, mindful of the three treasons.†   (source)
  • The farmers looked askance at him when he emerged from the press, and one said, "You're awful rude, barging in on us uninvited-like.†   (source)
  • I look at Cook askance.†   (source)
  • I look askance at him.†   (source)
  • An English party had just then come from the waterfront, made for a table near us, and then suddenly moved to the other side, where they looked askance at us and talked with their heads close together.†   (source)
  • And now, with the hysteria passed away and the ones who had been loudest in the hysteria and even the ones, the heroes who had suffered and served, beginning to look at one another a little askance, he had no one to tell it, to open his heart to.†   (source)
  • My views and tastes and all that I thought, once the shining adornments of a gifted and sought-after person, had run to seed in neglect and were looked at askance.†   (source)
  • He did not know that he had taken nearly ten years to arrive, for it never occurred to him that his neighbors had eyed him askance at first.†   (source)
  • We look askance at one another.†   (source)
  • …snobbery; young men were held to be gauche and pimply; it was thought very much more chic to be seen lunching alone at the Ritz—a thing, in any case, allowed to few girls of that day, to the tiny circle of Julia's intimates; a thing looked at askance by the elders who kept the score, chatting pleasantly against the walls of the ballrooms—at the table on the left as you came in, with a starched and wrinkled old roué whom your mother had been warned of as a girl, than in the center of…†   (source)
  • "Call me Tess," she would say askance; and he did.†   (source)
  • Are you going to stop wearing what all the other women wear—and be looked at askance?†   (source)
  • Carrie looked at him askance, half-suspicious of an appeal.†   (source)
  • Every householder looked askance at such a woman and child inquiring for accommodation in the gloom.†   (source)
  • "None escape," said the Beast People, looking askance at one another.†   (source)
  • For all that he was displeased enough, looked at me askance, and grumbled when he looked.†   (source)
  • The elder workman looked at him askance.†   (source)
  • Danglars looked at him askance, as though to ascertain whether he spoke seriously.†   (source)
  • The bystanders look askance on him in the public street or in the friend's parlor.†   (source)
  • The turnkey looked askance at her all the while, but never spoke.†   (source)
  • "Why are your fits getting worse?" asked Fyodor Pavlovitch, looking askance at his new cook.†   (source)
  • The soldiers looked askance at him with surprise and even alarm as they went past him.†   (source)
  • Then, checking himself, he looked askance at Newman.†   (source)
  • He looked askance at Princess Mary and said: "There are no horses; I told Yakov Alpatych so."†   (source)
  • Newman looked askance at him, inquisitive.†   (source)
  • "Are you a brave man?" he asked, eying him askance.†   (source)
  • And he stood holding Newman's hand and looking at him askance.†   (source)
  • She could of course borrow from her women friends—a hundred here or there, at the utmost—but they were more ready to give a gown or a trinket, and looked a little askance when she hinted her preference for a cheque.†   (source)
  • If askance he eyed the good looks, cheery health and frank enjoyment of young life in Billy Budd, it was because these went along with a nature that, as Claggart magnetically felt, had in its simplicity never willed malice or experienced the reactionary bite of that serpent.†   (source)
  • The interesting part of all this was that Clyde, in spite of a certain strain of refinement which caused him to look askance at most of this, was still fascinated by the crude picture of life and liberty which it offered.†   (source)
  • At that instant, as it seemed to him, the air was chilled and, looking askance towards the water, he saw a flying squall darkening and crisping suddenly the tide.†   (source)
  • On board that Dale Line steamer that had picked up these four floating in a boat upon the discreet sunset glow of the sea, they had been after the first day looked askance upon.†   (source)
  • Then it was that the lust of the chase would suddenly come upon him, and that his brilliant reasoning power would rise to the level of intuition, until those who were unacquainted with his methods would look askance at him as on a man whose knowledge was not that of other mortals.†   (source)
  • Anne set the card up against the jugful of apple blossoms she had brought in to decorate the dinner-table—Marilla had eyed that decoration askance, but had said nothing—propped her chin on her hands, and fell to studying it intently for several silent minutes.†   (source)
  • By this time various homeward bound individuals of diverse occupations and interests noticing this small group so advantageously disposed near the principal thoroughfare of the city, hesitated a moment,—either to eye them askance or to ascertain the character of their work.†   (source)
  • Clare hardily kept his arm round her waist in sight of these watermen, with the air of a man who was accustomed to public dalliance, though actually as shy as she who, with lips parted and eyes askance on the labourers, wore the look of a wary animal the while.†   (source)
  • And as I continued to walk up and down, and saw people looking askance at me upon the street or out of windows, and nudging or speaking one to another with smiles, I began to take a fresh apprehension: that it might be no easy matter even to come to speech of the lawyer, far less to convince him of my story.†   (source)
  • By this time various homeward-bound individuals of diverse grades and walks of life, noticing the small group disposing itself in this fashion, hesitated for a moment to eye them askance or paused to ascertain the character of their work.†   (source)
  • Catherine was immensely struck with this conception of the affair, which seemed eminently worthy of her lover's brilliant intellect; though she viewed it askance in so far as it depended upon her own powers of execution.†   (source)
  • He eyed Bumble askance, as he entered, but scarcely deigned to nod his head in acknowledgment of his salutation.†   (source)
  • Isabel looked at him askance.†   (source)
  • The woman—for it was a woman—approached with her face askance, as if looking earnestly on all sides of her.†   (source)
  • I reckon you will grant that during some years there has been only one pair of eyes in these kingdoms that has not been looking steadily askance at the queen and Sir Launcelot—†   (source)
  • Apollon, who had already sat down to his work and put on his spectacles again, at first glanced askance at the money without speaking or putting down his needle; then, without paying the slightest attention to me or making any answer, he went on busying himself with his needle, which he had not yet threaded.†   (source)
  • There they stood amidst the densest bustle of Vanity; the dealers offering them their purple and fine linen and jewels, the men of wit and humor gibing at them, a pair of buxom ladies ogling them askance, while the benevolent Mr. Smooth-it-away whispered some of his wisdom at their elbows, and pointed to a newly-erected temple; but there were these worthy simpletons, making the scene look wild and monstrous, merely by their sturdy repudiation of all part in its business or pleasures.†   (source)
  • Javert gazed askance at this body, and, profoundly calm, said in a low tone: "It strikes me that I know that girl."†   (source)
  • Osmond looked at him a moment askance.†   (source)
  • You look askance at anyone who occupies a superior official position; you regard him as a personal enemy, and then any stick is good enough to beat him with.†   (source)
  • "Where," asked he, with a look askance at them—for it was the clergyman's peculiarity that he seldom, now-a-days, looked straight forth at any object, whether human or inanimate, "where, my kind doctor, did you gather those herbs, with such a dark, flabby leaf?"†   (source)
  • The animals were delighted to see us back again, and received us with manifestations of joy, but looked askance at the new pets.†   (source)
  • Her beautiful eyes glanced askance at her husband's face, and her own assumed the timid, deprecating expression of a dog when it rapidly but feebly wags its drooping tail.†   (source)
  • The two officers, looking at the prostrate Bacchanalian, and askance at each other, exchanged the most frightful sympathetic grins.†   (source)
  • Sergey Ivanovitch, while he kept up a conversation with their hostess, had one ear for his brother, and he glanced askance at him.†   (source)
  • Tristram seemed restless and suspicious; he eyed his friend askance, and then, "What are you up to, any way?" he demanded.†   (source)
  • 'The White Whale—the White Whale!' was the cry from captain, mates, and harpooneers, who, undeterred by fearful rumours, were all anxious to capture so famous and precious a fish; while the dogged crew eyed askance, and with curses, the appalling beauty of the vast milky mass, that lit up by a horizontal spangling sun, shifted and glistened like a living opal in the blue morning sea.†   (source)
  • Was not Stephen Guest right in his decided opinion that this slim maiden of eighteen was quite the sort of wife a man would not be likely to repent of marrying,—a woman who was loving and thoughtful for other women, not giving them Judas-kisses with eyes askance on their welcome defects, but with real care and vision for their half-hidden pains and mortifications, with long ruminating enjoyment of little pleasures prepared for them?†   (source)
  • The lonely wayfarer shrank within himself at the horrid clamor and clapper-clawing; eyed the den of discord askance; and hurried on his way, rejoicing, if a bachelor, in his celibacy.†   (source)
  • …sort of time, and producing in her throat all those odd guttural sounds which distinguish the native music of her race; and finally, turning a summerset or two, and giving a prolonged closing note, as odd and unearthly as that of a steam-whistle, she came suddenly down on the carpet, and stood with her hands folded, and a most sanctimonious expression of meekness and solemnity over her face, only broken by the cunning glances which she shot askance from the corners of her eyes.†   (source)
  • The soft thing looked askance through the window: he possessed the power to depart as much as a cat possesses the power to leave a mouse half killed, or a bird half eaten.†   (source)
  • They came up to us at once merrily and without the least affectation of shyness, and all three shook hands with me as if I were a friend newly come back from a long journey: though I could not help noticing that they looked askance at my garments; for I had on my clothes of last night, and at the best was never a dressy person.†   (source)
  • Accordingly, Olivier le Mauvais remained motionless, sulking at the king, and glancing askance at Jacques Coictier.†   (source)
  • "It is as though they were afraid of me," Raskolnikov was thinking to himself, looking askance at his mother and sister.†   (source)
  • Boldwood was standing by the fireplace, and he, too, though so absorbed in visions arising from her promise that he scarcely saw anything, seemed at that moment to have observed their peculiar manner, and their looks askance.†   (source)
  • But it seems you have come back rich, my boy," continued the tailor, looking askance at the handful of gold and silver which Dantes had thrown on the table.†   (source)
  • I'm very glad, anyway, that I persuaded him," she said, looking askance at her husband through her hair.†   (source)
  • He looks askance at the lady who waits in the shop, and ties up the cards again in their envelope of whitey-brown paper, and hands them to the poor widow and Miss Clapp, who had never seen such beautiful things in her life, and had been quite confident that the man must give at least two guineas for the screens.†   (source)
  • To be a false signature in flesh and blood, to be a living false key, to enter the house of honest people by picking their lock, never more to look straightforward, to forever eye askance, to be infamous within the I, no! no! no! no! no!†   (source)
  • After a pause of two minutes, looking askance at his son, "Why, it was you got up all this monastery business.†   (source)
  • Ralph appeared to allow that there was a good deal in this, and he surrendered to thought while his companion watched him askance.†   (source)
  • "I think you—are conceited, nevertheless," said Bathsheba, looking askance at a reed she was fitfully pulling with one hand, having lately grown feverish under the soldier's system of procedure—not because the nature of his cajolery was entirely unperceived, but because its vigour was overwhelming.†   (source)
  • He looked askance and rather indignantly at Raskolnikov; he was so very badly dressed, and in spite of his humiliating position, his bearing was by no means in keeping with his clothes.†   (source)
  • M. Nioche rubbed his forehead slowly, and even pushed back his wig a little, looking askance at his empty glass.†   (source)
  • Then the young man stood there, with his hand on his hip, and with a conscious grin, staring askance at Miss Noemie.†   (source)
  • M. de Bellegarde stood in a well-balanced position before the fire, caressing one of his fair whiskers with one of his white hands, and looking at Newman, half askance, with eyes from which a particular ray of observation made its way through a general meaningless smile.†   (source)
  • She looked at him askance.†   (source)
  • And so the king askance came to Sir Tristram, to comfort him as he lay sick in his bed.†   (source)
  • Up through the hall of Zeus now all the lords of heaven were sullen and looked askance.†   (source)
  • …Appeach, impeach, Appealed, challenged, accused, Appertices, displays, Araged, enraged,; confused, Araised, raised, Arase, obliterate, Areared, reared, Armyvestal, martial, Array, plight, state of affairs, Arrayed, situated, Arson, saddle-bow, Askance, casually, Assoiled, absolved, Assotted, infatuated, Assummon, summon, Astonied, amazed, stunned, At, of, by, At-after, after, Attaint, overcome, Aumbries, chests, Avail (at), at an advantage, Avaled, lowered, Avaunt, boast, Aventred,…†   (source)
  • I must have looked askance at this, because he smiled, still careful of his mouth.†   (source)
  • Sargent peered askance through his slanted glasses.†   (source)
  • He smiled, glancing askance at her mocking eyes.†   (source)
  • Miss Douce halfstood to see her skin askance in the barmirror gildedlettered where hock and claret glasses shimmered and in their midst a shell.†   (source)
  • Bloom askance over liverless saw.†   (source)
  • And so the king askance came to Sir Tristram, to comfort him as he lay sick in his bed.†   (source)
  • Whom the grand foe, with scornful eye askance, Thus answered.†   (source)
  • He eyed them askance, and could not make out where he was.†   (source)
  • When they had come up, somewhile, with eye askance,[1] they gazed at me without a word; then they turned to each other, and said one to the other, "This one seems alive by the action of his throat; and if they are dead, by what privilege do they go uncovered by the heavy stole?"†   (source)
  • What at my glory ever looks askance?†   (source)
  • Thou canst not frown, thou canst not look askance, Nor bite the lip, as angry wenches will, Nor hast thou pleasure to be cross in talk; But thou with mildness entertain'st thy wooers; With gentle conference, soft and affable.†   (source)
  • …unreproved, And meek surrender, half-embracing leaned On our first father; half her swelling breast Naked met his, under the flowing gold Of her loose tresses hid: he in delight Both of her beauty, and submissive charms, Smiled with superiour love, as Jupiter On Juno smiles, when he impregns the clouds That shed Mayflowers; and pressed her matron lip With kisses pure: Aside the Devil turned For envy; yet with jealous leer malign Eyed them askance, and to himself thus plained.†   (source)
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