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No prophetic eye was needed to foresee the terrors that would beset her in the days to come, when she would walk back and forth before the bars, warping the yarn to be woven into cloth for his and Benny's clothes; how she would regard the harmless frame as an uncanny thing, endowed with supernatural powers, and look askance at it, and shrink from touching it; how she would watch for the sign to come true, and tremble lest it come.
He pondered this in silence. Then: "I'll take your word for it," said he. "Though if anybody'd ever told me I'd be eating out of a parson's hand, I'd have pushed his face in for him. Yep, I'm Fido! Me!" "At least you growl enough," said I, tartly. He eyed me askance. "Have I got to lick hands?" he snarled.
Who were bidden to come and who could not: Was there one of the lot, Ah! I hope there was not, Looked askance at the bidding and would not. The brave LITTLE EARL Is away, and his pearl- Laden spouse, the imperial GLADYS; By that odious gout Is LORD COWPER knocked out. And the wife who his comfort and aid is.
The old Boers of the towns and the takhaars looked askance at the youth of Pretoria and Johannesburg in their uniforms, and shook their heads at the innovation as smacking too much of an anti-republican spirit.
"Pray don't apologise on that score, mistress." Two of the men departed; five of them stalked into the farm parlour, flourishing their big hats and executing clumsy scrapings with their feet while bowing in mock fashion to the two nervous widows, who sat in one corner regarding them askance: the leader of these lawless ones dropped his cloak from his shoulders, left it trailing on the pantile floor, and made a rapid signal with his hand to Sophie to pause an instant before she entered the room.
The better social elements looked askance at those whose presence was a reminder of conquest and humiliation. From the business and the educational immigration, a few Northern men were drawn into public affairs, less by choice than by necessity of the situation.
Meantime, Loraine found out where Francois was sleeping, and, arousing him, told him to get some food ready for their unexpected guests. Francois at first eyed the strangers askance.
In every case, as at the trial of Joseph Nadeau, the man who murdered the timber-merchant, the first prejudice of judge and jury had given way slowly before the deep-seeing mind, which had as rare a power of analysis as for generalisation, and reduced masses of evidence to phrases; and verdicts had been given against all personal prejudice to be followed outside the court by the old prejudice, the old look askance at the man called Beauty Steele.
When in 1791 a beneficent British parliament granted a popular assembly to the French Canadians, they looked askance and muttered, "C'est une machine anglaise pour nous taxer"; and Edward I's people would have been justified in entertaining the suspicion that it was their money he wanted, not their advice, and still less their control.
Honorius looked askance on the maimed rites of the Gloucester coronation, and ordered a new hallowing to take place at the accustomed place and with the accustomed ceremonies. This supplementary rite was celebrated at Westminster on Whitsunday, May 17, 1220. Though Pandulf was present, he discreetly permitted the Archbishop of Canterbury to crown Henry with the diadem of St. Edward.
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