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  • A hundred yards ahead, the intersection was blocked by a couple of DCPJ police cars, parked askew, their purpose obvious.†   (source)
  • In the evening the murky shape of another coastal city, the cluster of tall buildings vaguely askew.†   (source)
  • They look as windblown as I feel, the frenzy of adrenaline in their eyes and their hair askew.†   (source)
  • The walkway had a faded green awning that covered it, and flower beds alongside with freshly planted pansies that looked muddied and slightly askew.†   (source)
  • He saw a dark shape in the grass, crusted with blood, legs askew.†   (source)
  • The cut-paper characters STUDY HARD AND ADVANCE EVERY DAY still hung on the front wall, but several pins were missing and some of the characters hung askew.†   (source)
  • I sat up and saw Amah was still asleep, lying askew on her sleeping mat.†   (source)
  • As he tumbled down into the cold ashes, his lion helm askew, Shagga snapped the man's sword in two over a knee thick as a tree trunk, threw down the pieces, and lumbered into the common room.†   (source)
  • Some unknown force had wrenched and shattered these cubes so that they lay askew, often piled diminishingly on each other.†   (source)
  • Instead of wearing a hat or coat, he had a long cloak draped over his head, and his wig sat askew.†   (source)
  • She couldn't close her eyes without seeing her mother's body split in half, arms askew, and filled with tumors.†   (source)
  • Klaus's glasses were hanging askew, a phrase which here means "tilted to one side from leaning over logs the entire morning."†   (source)
  • Ballet slippers, askew beneath a chair.†   (source)
  • At the head of the stairs, he paused to straighten a mask that had been knocked askew.†   (source)
  • The pneumatic doors were slightly askew where the troll had barged through, but otherwise everything seemed operational.†   (source)
  • He fell on the porch steps, screaming without sound, and scrambled up them on his hands and knees, snowshoes clattering and askew behind him.†   (source)
  • Mother's dark hair would be all askew on the pillow and her face sweet and quiet.†   (source)
  • So I had Dave, rubbing his eyes with hair askew, half a frozen burrito in one hand.†   (source)
  • Only in the lower right corner of the painting is there anything even remotely suggestive of trouble: a pair of legs askew as they disappear into the water.†   (source)
  • T: And so, for the first time, you had actual and direct evidence that there was something wrong, that something was askew.†   (source)
  • Women who drink champagne when there is nothing to celebrate can look like that: their straw hats with broken brims are often askew; they nod in public places; their shoes are undone.†   (source)
  • We drove past the community church, the cross on top slightly askew.†   (source)
  • One of my legs is askew, the skin and muscle peeled away so that I can see white streaks of bone.†   (source)
  • More came through the tunnel, adults with whimpering children, old people trembling, a black minister with his collar askew, one shoe missing.†   (source)
  • He was dressed in his usual uniform: old jeans, a flannel shirt, and a bent pair of gold-rimmed spectacles that sat askew on the bridge of his nose.†   (source)
  • Bram reappears in the doorway, plainclothes wrinkled, hair askew.†   (source)
  • People were unfastening my bindings and collecting my ski poles from where they poked skyward, askew, in their separate snowbanks.†   (source)
  • He glanced up from where he knelt, glasses askew.†   (source)
  • The closet doors were open, hanging askew by their hinges.†   (source)
  • …the imperfectly aligned features were the outcome of a car collision in 1950-an accident that left his long-jawed and narrow face tilted, the left side rather lower than the right, with the results that the lips were slightly aslant, the nose askew, and his eyes not only situated at uneven levels but of uneven size, the left eye being truly serpentine, with venomous, sickly-blue squint that although it was involuntarily acquired, seemed nevertheless to warn of bitter sediment at the…†   (source)
  • Something was horribly askew in Moody's personality.†   (source)
  • It seemed an age before the tapestries struck, all askew, a ruin of beauty, an avalanche of gold, silver, and sky-blue thread on the floor.†   (source)
  • One moment she is askew on Rosie's head, lying flat.†   (source)
  • Inge stood in the doorway, her bonnet askew on her head.†   (source)
  • Hair askew, buttons undone, I thought it was pretty obvious.†   (source)
  • One eyelid was misshapen and closed askew.†   (source)
  • The world is wrong; it's as askew as a picture frame knocked on its side.†   (source)
  • Every sort of prisoner is represented; sad-looking middle-aged upper-class white men, their wire-rim glasses sometimes askew or broken; proud cholos looking vaguely Mayan and covered in gang markings; white women with bleached-out hair and very bad orthodontia; skinhead types with swastika tattoos on their faces; young black men with their hair bushed out because they had been forced to undo their cornrows; a skinny white father-and-son pair, obvious because they were the spitting…†   (source)
  • The impact had smashed ten square meters of bow plating, annihilated the sonar dome, knocked a torpedo tube askew, and nearly flooded the torpedo room.†   (source)
  • That's where we played Askew's game, the game called Death.†   (source)
  • They passed a Soviet T-51 tank, its turret blown askew by fearsome forces, which served as a magnet for village children who climbed on top of it to play at war.†   (source)
  • He wondered whether her husband had found her beautiful first thing in the morning, with her hair askew, the way Travis did when he saw Gabby.†   (source)
  • Her wig was askew.†   (source)
  • He was indeed pressed to the window, his nose pushed flat and his handlebar mustache askew with dampness.†   (source)
  • Down in the sea of slightly askew chairs, a white glove gleamed on a green sill cushion.†   (source)
  • His dress cap was askew and in danger of falling.†   (source)
  • I looked at Aunt Del, so muddled, her scarf dangling lopsidedly from one shoulder, her glasses askew, even her off-kilter gray bun coming unraveled from its twist.†   (source)
  • The framed print of Bernini's Ecstasy of St. Teresa looked slightly askew.†   (source)
  • It was, in fact, the only sign that there was anything at all askew.†   (source)
  • Mom's cheery yellow sweater lies askew along the stitches on her throat and shoulder.†   (source)
  • Seniors were racing from their rooms from all over the barracks, tucking in their shirts as they came, shoes untied, hats askew, and eyes trained on their watches as they tried to outrun the final bugle that would make them late on the Bear's clipboard.†   (source)
  • It wasn't an expert blow—it landed clumsily, a bit askew—but it was enough to send Denny tumbling back onto his chair.†   (source)
  • I'm not going askew from the principles on which the United States was built; I'm right there with our founding fathers.†   (source)
  • Bill and his wife, a straw-haired woman usually groggy and thicktongued with spiked wine, operated all this business in a two-room shack joined to a covered wharf, its pilings leaning and roof askew, in a cove on the Timucuan.†   (source)
  • But even as she absorbed this knowledge she moved her head listlessly, conscious of something else, a voice, a man's voice, orotund, powerful, raging at the half-cowering and perspiring figure whose back was to her but whom she dimly recognized by the green eyeshade gone askew on his brow as Sholom Weiss.†   (source)
  • On her head, slightly askew, sat an old black wig.†   (source)
  • A framed picture could be seen hanging on the wall, just askew enough so that it looked straightened every now and then.†   (source)
  • But Marilla could not rid herself of the notion that something in her scheme of punishment was going askew.   (source)
    askew = not right, or not as planned
  • No. At that he looks up, his glasses askew, scowling like he's about to chastise me.†   (source)
  • The sarcophagus, like many in Rome, was askew with the wall, positioned awkwardly.†   (source)
  • His eyes are pink, his stock is askew, and he is missing a glove.†   (source)
  • Mr Weasley's body replaced Bill's, his glasses askew, a trickle of blood running down his face.†   (source)
  • A last push, a wrench as he's pulled up short, and he's dangling askew.†   (source)
  • The fingers tightened, Harry choked, his glasses askew.†   (source)
  • Her glasses are askew, and her eyes are empty of feeling.†   (source)
  • I squint and see a bed, the mattress naked and askew.†   (source)
  • The top of the t tips up, like an arm flung askew.†   (source)
  • Harry fell backward, his glasses askew, clutching the cloak around him.†   (source)
  • Though askew and off center, the brightest object was clearly a little, pointed pyramid.†   (source)
  • The room was completely in order, nothing at all out of place, not even the rug askew.†   (source)
  • There's Nick, hat askew; today he doesn't even look at me.†   (source)
  • He struggled halfway into a sitting position, his battered glasses knocked askew.†   (source)
  • Dobby appeared alongside Kreacher, his tea-cozy hat askew.†   (source)
  • His words don't seem synchronized with his mouth, as if a. soundtrack has gone askew.†   (source)
  • They were arranged in eight staggered ranks with a few stray planes askew at the fringes.†   (source)
  • A sign nailed askew to a tree at the head of the driveway read FREE KITTEN'S.†   (source)
  • They did not believe Nature was ever askew—only inconvenient.†   (source)
  • She was all mud and blood below the waist, her clothing askew, her face red.†   (source)
  • The wooden bridge is more askew, rottener than I remember.†   (source)
  • His men were scattered about him, arms and legs askew, helmets lost, swords torn away.†   (source)
  • Therese comes in, her factionless armband askew.†   (source)
  • The hammer went askew, flattening the cylinder and sending attachments flying everywhere.†   (source)
  • He pushed his way across the yard to where his nephew stood, his dung-encrusted crown askew.†   (source)
  • "Yes," Jack agreed, looking askew at the ship's crewmen.†   (source)
  • Askew stood up, yanked Bobby to his feet, shoved him on his way.†   (source)
  • His eyes fluttered open and he saw Goober's face all askew, like on a broken movie film.†   (source)
  • Cara jogs into the atrium, her hair askew and floating over her forehead.†   (source)
  • No. They tried to keep the tale of Askew's den from Grandpa, but he got the gist of it.†   (source)
  • "There will be a death this day," said Askew.†   (source)
  • Askew lifted the baby from her sling and put her down on Grandpa's lap.†   (source)
  • Askew crouched apart from us, smoking a cigarette, hunched over, sunk in his gloom.†   (source)
  • I passed near the Askew house with Allie one bitter afternoon.†   (source)
  • Askew grinned, turned his face to the dark.†   (source)
  • I picked two blankets from the heap, wrapped one around Askew and one around myself.†   (source)
  • I'd only been in Stoneygate a week when Askew found me.†   (source)
  • The player had to kneel before Askew, then crouch on all fours.†   (source)
  • I saw the bearskin again, covering Askew's shoulders.†   (source)
  • Often my friends come, and we walk out together into the wilderness, Allie, Askew and me.†   (source)
  • Bobby laughed again and Askew leapt at him, pressed him to the earth and knelt over him.†   (source)
  • Askew stirred again in his sleep, then settled.†   (source)
  • We fell down with our legs and arms askew and printed the shapes of our bodies in it.†   (source)
  • Askew opened his coat again and she giggled out at us and Grandpa gasped with delight.†   (source)
  • John Askew, Christopher Watson, with the long list of the dead between us, joining us.†   (source)
  • We left Askew and began to walk together through the wilderness.†   (source)
  • Askew closed his coat and I took him out.†   (source)
  • The player had to reach out, to take Askew's hand.†   (source)
  • But I told them about Askew's pain and fright, about his loneliness.†   (source)
  • We passed the place where Askew's den had been.†   (source)
  • John Askew stood further back with his mother and father.†   (source)
  • "Nowt," said Askew, and I heard the deep tedium in his voice.†   (source)
  • I need to know about John Askew's family," I said.†   (source)
  • Then Askew slid the door aside and we climbed out into the light.†   (source)
  • "I think that our Mr. Askew will be taking his leave of us," he said.†   (source)
  • We could play the game of Life together, Askew.†   (source)
  • Then Askew's own silhouette, his bitter laughter.†   (source)
  • I turned my eyes from Askew, peered past him, squinted.†   (source)
  • Then Askew turned to me, and I saw it in his eyes: You're on your own down here, Mr. Watson.†   (source)
  • Askew waited till Bobby and Jax were at his side, then they wandered on.†   (source)
  • "John Askew, aged thirteen," he whispered.†   (source)
  • Askew was a lout, he said, an imbecile, a disgrace to the school.†   (source)
  • John Askew, aged thirteen, friend of Christopher Watson, aged thirteen.†   (source)
  • I followed his eyes, saw it written there: John Askew, aged thirteen.†   (source)
  • And I bet you know that Askew's dad could do anything if he was drunk enough.†   (source)
  • It was Askew who needed someone to protect him, Askew who needed love.†   (source)
  • They'd talked to the Askew boy but he'd given them nothing to go on.†   (source)
  • It'll be where there's nobody, just John Askew, Kit Watson, and many many of the dead.†   (source)
  • There were giggles, then Askew whispered, "Silence!"†   (source)
  • The baby whimpered from its place by Askew's heart.†   (source)
  • "You're one of John Askew's friends," I said.†   (source)
  • I walked through the gates one afternoon and saw Askew's group gathering there.†   (source)
  • Askew looked at the tree, at the television, at Grandpa sleeping.†   (source)
  • Often we saw Askew looming through the dusk with Jax, as he crossed and recrossed the wilderness.†   (source)
  • Askew wore black jeans, black sneakers, a black T-shirt with "Megadeth" in white across it.†   (source)
  • But I bet you can't walk by the river now without looking to see if Askew's body's floating there.†   (source)
  • Beyond the wild kids in the yard I saw Askew's mother at the gates with her baby in her arms.†   (source)
  • John Askew, aged thirteen, Christopher Watson, aged thirteen.†   (source)
  • Beyond them, the dark figure of Askew lurched toward the river with Jax at his side.†   (source)
  • He howled into the empty wilderness: "Johnny Askew!†   (source)
  • She shined the flashlight straight into Askew's black-patterned face.†   (source)
  • I think if Lak and his sister're safe, then Askew'll be safe.†   (source)
  • I wanted to tell her that I saw how brutal Askew might be, but that I felt drawn to him.†   (source)
  • They hung their heads and said they would never go near Askew again.†   (source)
  • At the head of the list was written "John Askew, aged thirteen."†   (source)
  • Askew lounged against the wall with his head down, just taking it all.†   (source)
  • Askew held the shining knife blade before me.†   (source)
  • Outside, Askew and Jax disappeared over the edge of the wilderness.†   (source)
  • Askew told us they were human bones, discovered when he'd dug this place.†   (source)
  • "And John Askew," whispers Burning Bush.†   (source)
  • Yes," said Mrs. Askew, and she kissed Allie's silver cheek.†   (source)
  • It was Askew's father, leaning at the fence.†   (source)
  • It was almost lunchtime when John Askew came.†   (source)
  • I didn't tell what you said about Askew.†   (source)
  • At home, Askew's mother passed us, coming off the wilderness.†   (source)
  • They said the main thing was that the game was over now, and that awful John Askew was gone.†   (source)
  • Askew's father was further along the lane, tottering alongside the fence.†   (source)
  • It was Grandpa who showed me Askew's place.†   (source)
  • I went into the cul-de-sac, toward Askew's garden.†   (source)
  • He had to lift his head and stare into Askew's eyes.†   (source)
  • Water had trickled down the walls through Askew's carvings.†   (source)
  • I thought of Askew, of the fear and revulsion he caused around him.†   (source)
  • I knew that Askew would call me soon, that he would choose the time and place.†   (source)
  • I carried Askew's picture rolled up in my hand.†   (source)
  • When Jax began to growl, Askew drew one of the doors aside.†   (source)
  • "John Askew," said Grandpa, opening his eyes.†   (source)
  • Askew drew him from the fringes to the center.†   (source)
  • I gripped the ammonite, prepared to strike again; then Askew called: "Jax!†   (source)
  • I showed him the drawing that Askew had done of me.†   (source)
  • Askew, Bobby and the dog went over the edge toward the river.†   (source)
  • Looked up at the three drawings: me; Silky; me and Askew in the cave.†   (source)
  • John Askew, aged thirteen, watched by Christopher Watson, aged thirteen.†   (source)
  • Even your gravestone waited for you, just as it waited for John Askew, aged thirteen.†   (source)
  • If Askew's got any sense he'll just have got himself away from this stupid place.†   (source)
  • Askew was the man that burrowed through till his hands was bleeding.†   (source)
  • I stared down at the knife as Askew laid it on the glass.†   (source)
  • Askew reached out and touched the stones.†   (source)
  • Then there was Askew himself, head hanging, walking slowly from the river toward the man.†   (source)
  • Left to yourself you'd be begging Askew to dig a hole and chuck you in.†   (source)
  • I passed Askew being yelled at by Chambers, the deputy head.†   (source)
  • There's more to Askew than there seems," I said.†   (source)
  • "I dreamed all night about the baby," said Askew.†   (source)
  • We'll have some work to do on your attitude, Mr. Askew.†   (source)
  • Sato cocked her head, eyeing him askew.†   (source)
  • Tiny little Professor Flitwick, the Charms teacher, was sitting on a large pile of cushions beside Professor Sprout, the Herbology teacher, whose hat was askew over her flyaway gray hair.†   (source)
  • If he's polishing the car when I set out for the shopping, or when I come back, and if his hat is on askew or not on at all, then I go.†   (source)
  • His glasses were slightly askew and he clearly hadn't meant to fall asleep: There was a book open on the floor where he'd dropped it and his sneakered feet dangled over the couch's edge in a manner that looked as if it were probably uncomfortable.†   (source)
  • As usual, her mobcap was askew and she smelled of the snuff she still firmly believed, after all these years, to be a secret vice.†   (source)
  • He burst into the living room, his bald patch gleaming with sweat, his spectacles askew, Fred right behind him, both pale but uninjured.†   (source)
  • He had been sitting in a chair beside his bedroom window for the best part of four hours, staring out at the darkening street, and had finally fallen asleep with one side of his face pressed against the cold win-dowpane, his glasses askew and his mouth wide open.†   (source)
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