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Uncle Tom’s Cabin vocabulary
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askance
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synonyms: asquint ???
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Definition:Sideways; obliquely; with a side glance; with disdain, envy, or suspicion.Noah Webster. Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
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"I asked the doctor; he said he couldn't live more than three days. But can they be sure? I'm very glad, anyway, that I persuaded him," she said, looking askance at her husband through her hair. "Anything is possible," she added with that peculiar, rather sly expression that was always in her face when she spoke of religion.
Leo Tolstoy. Anna Karenina (Translated by Constance Garnett)
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If there is one thing at which a peaceable householder looks askance, it is the prospect of his butler making the police wish they had never been born,
P. G. Wodehouse. The Girl in Blue, p.67 (1971)
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