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Imagine this figure, grotesque, peregrinate, and to the eye of a peasant certainly diabolical; then perch it on the stile in the midst of those green English fields, and in sight of that primitive English village; there let it sit straddling, its long legs dangling down, a short German pipe emitting clouds from one corner of those sardonic lips, its dark eyes glaring through the spectacles full upon the parson, yet askant upon Lenny Fairfield.
Then she had been dependent on herself. Now she had the joy of trusting to her husband. His hard leftward eye had view of her askant, if he cared to see how she bore the trial; and so relentlessly did he take the slopes, that the man inside pushed out an inquiring pate, the two grooms tightened arms across their chests.
Spirituality does not light it; evanescent dreams: are its oil-lamps, often with wick askant in the socket. A thousand years! You may count full many a thousand by this route before you are one with divine Philosophy.
But as noon approaches the color gets lighter, quite gray for two or three hours then still paler for a spell, till sun-down which last I watch dazzling through the interstices of a knoll of big trees darts of fire and a gorgeous show of light-yellow, liver-color and red, with a vast silver glaze askant on the water the transparent shadows, shafts, sparkle, and vivid colors beyond all the paintings ever made.
Then he spoke about the squire, whom he confounded with Audley Egerton, and talked of elections and the Blue party, and hoped Leonard would always be a good Blue; and then he fell to his tea and toast, and said no more. Mrs. Avenel spoke little, but she eyed Leonard askant, as it were, from time to time; and, after each glance, the nerves of the poor severe face twitched again.
But the squire continued to eye askant the dark-whiskered personage thus interposed between himself and his son, and who waited patiently a few yards in the rear, carelessly readjusting the camellia in his button-hole. "He looks very outlandish. Is he a foreigner too?" asked the squire at last. "No, not exactly. However, he knows all about Frank's embarrassments; and "
In this temper we may dwell only on the guilt and misery and defilements, the wounds and bruises and putrefying sores of the heathen world; or if aught better is brought under our eye, we may look askant and suspiciously upon it, as though all recognition of it were a disparagement of something better. And so we may come to regard the fairest deeds of unbaptized men as only more splendid sins.
Imagine this figure, grotesque, peregrinate, and to the eye of a peasant certainly diabolical; then perch it on the stile in the midst of those green English fields, and in sight of that primitive English village; there let it sit straddling, its long legs dangling down, a short German pipe emitting clouds from one corner of those sardonic lips, its dark eyes glaring through the spectacles full upon the parson, yet askant upon Lenny Fairfield.
But the squire continued to eye askant the dark-whiskered personage thus interposed between himself and his son, and who waited patiently a few yards in the rear, carelessly readjusting the camellia in his button- hole. "He looks very outlandish. Is he a foreigner too?" asked the squire at last. "No, not exactly. However, he knows all about Frank's embarrassments; and "
"Then I'll have to tell the truth, of course," said Bob soberly; "it'll be under oath, you know." Pollock looked at him strangely askant. "I didn't much look to hear you talk that-a-way," said he. "George," said Bob, "this will take money. Have you any?" "I've some," replied the mountaineer sulkily. "How much?" "A hundred dollars or so." "Not enough by a long patch.
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