I glanced askance at this strange creature, and found him watching me with his queer, restless eyes.

He cannot see God's world as it is, but eyes each passer-by askance , and looks around him uneasily in order that he may listen to every word that is being uttered.

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.

Better so, than live to be disgraced and looked askance at.

The gormandizing powers of this worthy were, at first, matters of surprise and merriment to the travellers; but they soon became too serious for a joke, threatening devastation to the fleshpots; and he was regarded askance , at his meals, as a regular kill-crop, destined to waste the substance of the party.

Doctor," as she called Anne, with blind fervor, looked rather jealously askance at Marilla at first.

While such whims and chimeras were flitting across my fancy I began to look askance at Mrs.

The lasses, also, looked at him askance , thinking they had never seen a lustier youth.

Rocke continued, "people were inclined to look a little askance at her, that has all gone by.

Taking a last whiff of his cigarette he threw it down, stepped on it, and letting the smoke escape through his moustache and looking askance at the horse that was coming up, began to tuck in his sheepskin collar on both sides of his ruddy face, clean-shaven except for the moustache, so that his breath should not moisten the collar.

As England grew Puritan, the people began to look askance at the theater, for the Puritans had always been its enemies.