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• The beggar asked for change, but the haughty woman only looked at him askance.
• The scandal of opposition died down, and the stone-carver himself, though the town-folk continued to eye him askance, was able to secure other work through the favor of discriminating patrons.
• Both [...] were viewed askance by authority.
• My palfrey eyed them askance.
• I glanced askance at this strange creature, and found him watching me with his queer, restless eyes.
• ...the head-stones in the grave-yard beneath seemed to be holding themselves askance to keep it out of their faces.
• My first thought was, he lied in every word, That hoary cripple, with malicious eye Askance to watch the working of his lie