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John looks at her askance, unsure what she is getting at
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Dave looks at John askance
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The customs official looks at Russ askance, shakes his head, begins to stamp the passports
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John looks at her askance
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Nevertheless, I often suspect -from askance looks, certain phrases, bored movements- that Aphrodite doesn't really like such discussions
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She looked askance at him
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He grins sheepishly as I raise my eyebrows and look at him askance
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He looked at Tom askance then,
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in the act of stroking his chin and looked askance in the
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Looking askance at the
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She looked askance at the heretic as he fell in behind
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He looked at her askance
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” I looked at them askance and couldn’t believe what they were saying I mean although they were a lot older than me and of higher rank I still regarded them as friends but the I thought how wrong could I be
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“Did you get a good sleep or were you to busy for that I hope you’re not tired out?” A smile played over her lips and I looked askance at her as I realised that she knew all about what me and Helen had been up to
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Doc looked askance at Jack as if to say, You still carrying that torch for that crazy woman, who ruined my night out
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Maldynado, Akstyr, Basilard, and Books looked askance at Amaranthe
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“Is it really that simple?” he asked askance
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“We won’t have a bad year, you can be sure of that!” she said looking askance at Beth, “because we don’t let superstition rule the business or our lives, do we, darling?” Her name was Caroline Steepleton, Brian’s fiancée
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I looked at him askance and realized that he meant it
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“There’s a big spider in here,” the Adj muttered, looking askance up into the corner of the tent
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Beth looked askance at him, her nose wrinkled
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He stuck to his legend regardless of how the medicos gazed askance
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Dana was eyed askance wherever she went in Mackilla, mostly because of her fair hair and ‘tanned’ skin
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The thief looked askance at the scarecrow
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Aida looked at her askance
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The harbour master, a round, red buoy of a man with lank, shoulder-length hair that looked like it had tar in it, looked askance at the slight, nerdy looking figure before him
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Mungo looked askance, then put up his hand as well
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Alice looked askance at this and Jack realised she hadn’t the naval watch times, so he explained,
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He looked askance to find an older Asian lady wagging her finger at him
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But those above would have looked askance at his own judgement should she have given a bad performance
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While she landed herself in his ardent embrace, even as her sari went askance, exposing her legs and baring her blouse, her pulse increased anticipating an ambush
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askance at the scene in the hall below, and walked down at a stately pace, determined that
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That full moon night, I found her with her sari askance as she lay on her belly dangling her bare legs up in the air; oh how voluptuous she was in that moonlight then; sensing my anticipated presence, as she turned all the more inviting, so I got down and sauntered nearby to let her make the next move but she staid put in her bed though I could discern her desire in her manner
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Hunter looked at her with askance
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“I can understand Mother doing this,” Cristian said, turning his face toward his father askance
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Clint, his arms folded across his chest, sat askance on the arm of the leather chair opposite Vinnie’s desk
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Its success it is true was chiefly owing to the immense variety of things to eat she had provided; for the conjuror, merry-go-round, and cocoa-nuts to be shied at that she had told young Vickerton to bring with him from Minehead, had all been abandoned on Tussie's earnest advice, who instructed her innocent German mind that these amusements, undoubtedly admirable in themselves and on week days, were looked upon askance in England on Sundays
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Paddy and Wolfi were atop the other wagon that was further back and askance of the road
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I looked at her askance, but she insisted, “It’s true! Maybe it sounds weird seeing as we have been on the run for our lives for the most part, but I haven’t been alone
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I stared at her askance, but then I quickly realized I was dealing with a war of cultures
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He explained as much to the people of the village and they looked at him askance as the concept of giving privacy to a lovemaking couple was not of their tradition
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James looked at her askance, “You think you can solve it?”
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He looked at me askance in the thin starlight and with a probing stare for several seconds
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He looked at me askance and was silent for several seconds as he look past my present
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looked askance at him
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looked at us askance as if we had gone „troppo'
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He looked askance and rather indignantly at
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The elder workman looked at him askance
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"It is as though they were afraid of me," Raskolnikov was thinking to himself, looking askance at his mother and sister
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He eyed them askance, and could not make out where he was
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Apollon, who had already sat down to his work and put on his spectacles again, at first glanced askance at the money without speaking or putting down his needle; then, without paying the slightest attention to me or making any answer, he went on busying himself with his needle, which he had not yet threaded
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The soft thing looked askance through the window: he possessed the power to depart, as much as a cat possesses the power to leave a mouse half killed, or a bird half eaten
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Sargent peered askance through his slanted glasses
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Bloom askance over liverless saw
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Danglars looked at him askance, as though to ascertain whether he spoke seriously
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“Where,” asked he, with a look askance at them,—for it was the clergyman's peculiarity that he seldom, nowadays, looked straightforth at any object, whether human or inanimate,—“where, my kind doctor, did you gather those herbs, with such a dark, flabby leaf?”
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The same curious accident happened to him in the rooms of the Indian—a silent, little, hook-nosed fellow, who eyed us askance and was obviously glad when Holmes's architectural studies had come to an end
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principle that he who would heal others must himself be whole, and looks askance at the curative powers of the man whose own case is beyond the reach of his drugs
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Now, I make a point of never having any prejudices, and of following docilely wherever fact may lead me, and so, in the very first stage of the investigation, I found myself looking a little askance at the part which had been played by Mr
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glanced askance at him
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But any company would have been preferable to the doctor's, at whom he had always looked askance as a sort of beachcomber of superior intelligence partly reclaimed from his abased state
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But can they be sure? I’m very glad, anyway, that I persuaded him,’ she said, looking askance at her husband through her hair
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An English party had just then come from the waterfront, made for a table near us, and then suddenly moved to the other side, where they looked askance at us and talked with their heads close together
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Rex's age was greatly in his favour, for among Julia's friends there was a kind of gerontophilic snobbery; young men were held to be gauche and pimply; it was thought very much more chic to be seen lunching alone at the Ritz - a thing, in any case, allowed to few girls of that day, to the tiny circle of Julia's intimates; a thing looked at askance by the elders who kept the score, chatting pleasantly against the walls of the ballrooms - at the table on the left as you came in, with a starched and wrinkled old roué whom your mother had be warned of as a girl, than than in the centre of the room with a party of exuberant young bloods
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He looked askance and rather indignantly at Raskolnikov; he was so very badly dressed, and in spite of his humiliating position, his bearing was by no means in keeping with his clothes
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"Call me Tess," she would say askance; and he did
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Clare hardily kept his arm round her waist in sight of these watermen, with the air of a man who was accustomed to public dalliance, though actually as shy as she who, with lips parted and eyes askance on the labourers, wore the look of a wary animal the while
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The woman nodded though she looked askance when Egg took off his hat to fan his face
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He looked askance at Princess Mary and said: ‘There are no horses; I told
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Javert gazed askance at this body, and, profoundly calm,
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To be a false signature in flesh and blood, to be a living false key, to enter the house of honest people by picking their lock, never more to look straightforward, to forever eye askance, to be infamous within the I, no! no! no! no! no! It is better to suffer, to bleed, to weep, to tear one's skin from the flesh with one's nails, to pass nights writhing in anguish, to devour oneself body and soul
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Then it was that the lust of the chase would suddenly come upon him, and that his brilliant reasoning power would rise to the level of intuition, until those who were unacquainted with his methods would look askance at him as on a man whose knowledge was not that of other mortals
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The same curious accident happened to him in the rooms of the Indian—a silent, little, hook-nosed fellow, who eyed us askance, and was obviously glad when Holmes's architectural studies had come to an end
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When Sara went into the kitchen that morning the cook looked askance at her, and so did the housemaids; but she passed them hurriedly
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'The White Whale—the White Whale!' was the cry from captain, mates, and harpooneers, who, undeterred by fearful rumours, were all anxious to capture so famous and precious a fish; while the dogged crew eyed askance, and with curses, the appalling beauty of the vast milky mass, that lit up by a horizontal spangling sun, shifted and glistened like a living opal in the blue morning sea
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‘It is as though they were afraid of me,’ Raskolnikov was thinking to himself, looking askance at his mother and sister
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Oh, may that teirible beauty (yes, terrible, there are such !), that daughter of that luxurious and aristocratic lady meeting me by chance on a steamer or somewhere, glance askance at me and turn up her nose, wondering contemptuously how that humble, unpresentable man with a book or paper in his hand could dare to be in a front seat beside her ! If only she knew who was sitting beside her ! And she will find out, she will, and will come to sit beside me of her own accord, humble, timid, ingratiating, seeking my glance, radiant at ray smile
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After a pause of two minutes, looking askance at his son, “Why, it was you got up all this monastery business
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“Fool!” he muttered—looking askance at Pavel Pavlovitch, who sat beside him as still as a mouse
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Apollon, who had already sat down to his work and put on his spectacles again, at first glanced askance at the money without speaking or putting down his needle; then, without paying the slightest attention to me or making any answer he went on busying himself with his needle, which he had not yet threaded
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"Ah! With him?" Yulian Mastakovitch looked askance at the boy
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I fancied, too, that I was, as it were, to blame in regard to her, for having come upon her tears the day before and hindered her grieving, so that she could hardly help looking at me askance, as an unpleasant witness and unforgiven sharer of her secret
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But Semyon Ivanovitch would not feel this: on the contrary he muttered something between his teeth with the most distrustful air, and suddenly began glancing askance from right to left in a hostile way, as though he would have reduced his sympathetic friends to ashes with his eyes
