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I looked at him with new eyes, and a sort of wonder: and had scarcely time to compose my face, when, the paroxysm of his fury spent, he rose, and looking at me askance, to see how I took his actions, he asked me sullenly whither I was going. "To Monseigneur's," I said cunningly: had I answered, "To the Palais Royal," he would have suspected me. "To the Bishop's?" "Where else?"
But there will be a grand drinking bout," said Lubov, looking at him askance. "I can drink at my own expense if I choose to do so." "I know," said Lubov, nodding her head expressively. Taras toyed with his teaspoon, turning it between his fingers and looking at them askance. "And where's my godfather?" asked Foma. "He went to the bank. There's a meeting of the board of directors today.
"Very well it's a lie, but this is what happened," and I told him of the scene in the theatre. Jack pulled a puzzled face, looking askance as he listened. "Why didn't you go round to her box, the way M. Radisson did to the king's?" "You forget I am only a trader!" "Pah," says Jack, "that is nothing!" "You forget that Lieutenant Blood might have objected to my visit," and I told him of Blood.
These perhaps a dozen of them had been posted to the very hut round which the German guards were then standing, and, as Henri and Jules came upon the scene, could be observed within the ring of guards, cowering, looking askance at the Germans, and evidently in sore trouble. "One of our jockey friends then is the culprit," said Jules; "it's one of the racing-men who has been goaded to madness."
"Yes," he said, "it 's awfully hard to put up with, but what can a fellow do? One must have farmers. Why, if it was n't for the farmers, there 'd be still a hare or two about the place!" Shelton laughed spasmodically; again he glanced askance at his future father-in-law. What did the waggling of his head mean, the deepening of his crow's-feet, the odd contraction of the mouth?
And will you dine with us this evening?" Her invitation was so unexpected, in view of all that had happened, that he looked askance. "Ach, you must not treat my invitation as I did yours!" she cried, merrily, although he could detect the blush that returns with the recollection of a reprimand. "You should profit by what I have been taught."
As the train passed up the street, the town's-people took little other notice of them than by now and then eyeing them askance with a jealous look. I had remained the whole time snug in my room, without one soul of them knowing or suspecting that I was in Warminster; but, as soon as I saw them all safely housed, out I bolted into the street, and made my way after them.
As I fired this broadside he looked at me askance, with the pipe in the corner of his mouth, then reached out his great brown paw, and said, "Shake." I knew it was all right now that the giving of his hand meant not only a treaty of peace but also a friendly alliance. The old fellow discoursed vegetable wisdom so steadily for half an hour that his pipe went out.
The smaller they are the more terrible they may be." "I niver fled afore a little un," said Joseph. "I could allays face a little un." He spoke with a retrospective tone. His lordship eyed him askance with a twinkle of rich enjoyment, and took snuff with infinite relish, as if he took Joseph's mental flavor with it and found it delightful.
Perhaps instinctively sensible of the regard that dwelt, warm with wonder, on the fair curve of her cheek, the perfect modelling of her nose and mouth, she looked swiftly askance, after a time, surprised his admiration, and as if not displeased smiled faintly as she returned attention to the road.
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