This was enough to convict him of infidelity and atheism in the eyes of devout theologians who looked askance on moral teaching, however pure, that was not cast in the dogmatic mould.
Even if some pious Moslems looked askance at the foreign learning and its professors, an enlightened spirit generally prevailed.
They looked askanceat Phebe's grumblings, her fluctuating enthusiasm, her hours of girlish frivolity and of pettish complaint.
Cicely eyed him askance for a moment; then she too burst out laughing, while two deep dimples appeared in her cheeks and a queer little pucker came at the outer corners of her eyes.
So speaking, he looked askance at a Muscovite guest who was sitting among the banqueters; this was Captain Rykov, an old soldier who was quartered in a village hard by, and whom the Judge for courtesy’s sake had invited to the supper.
The case was so scandalous that the alcalde ordered the murderers to be taken from sanctuary, a most unusual thing, which was looked upon askance by those who saw it.
As I have said before, he looked askance and inquisitively at every one he met as he walked up the lane.
Miss Douce halfstood to see her skin askancein the barmirror gildedlettered where hock and claret glasses shimmered and in their midst a shell.
Even outside fellows seemed to have heard of my crime, and looked askance or gave me a wide berth.
Like the princes the council inclined towards papism, and looked askanceat men of letters; hence, it rejected Bonnus' overtures.
I felt hurt, although I fully intended to refuse the hundred florins, lest my brother-in-law should look askance at me.
He leant against the doorpost, playing with his dagger and looking askance at Jilin, like a wolf.
Others again looked at him askance as at some wild beast.
The new-comer looked askanceat his accomplice, who gave him a quick, meaning look.
Nioche rubbed his forehead slowly, and even pushed back his wig a little, looking askance at his empty glass.
Then the young man stood there, with his hand on his hip, and with a conscious grin, staring askance at Miss Noemie.
Then, checking himself, he looked askance at Newman.
Ever and anon he would look askance at me, and I was annoyed that he should think me a poorer mountaineer than those unwearied knaves who hurried us.
They had been very warm and flattering as we passed north--the best they had was not good enough for us; now they eyed us askance as we went among them in the morning.
The two officers, looking at the prostrate Bacchanalian, and askance at each other, exchanged the most frightful sympathetic grins.
I have followed her about like a young Don Juan ever since we have been here, and looked askance at her as I stood before the pictures.
But the next to speak was the devil's imp Pierre the fool; and when he told of the Brown Friar with whom the lady talked and walked at midnight by the chapel, there were many who looked askance and crossed themselves.
Even Belle, who would fight for her boys as a tigress fights for its young, looked askance at Duke while she tried, motherlike, to cover his faults from the keen eyes of Tom.
The men from Black Rim are eyed askance when they burr their spur rowels down the plank sidewalks of whatever little town they may choose to visit.
It was Edward Seymour, Earl of Hertford, looked at askance by the rest as a new man, but already overlapping them all as the uncle of the infant prince.
The people at large, as usual, looked askance at the French connection.
And yet no doubt seriousness was the dominant note in the young American's character, a seriousness that still looked askance at itself, and smiled oftener at its own gravity than at any other wrinkle in the tragi-comic mask of humanity.
The girl looked at him askance through her hair which had fallen over her face and was wet with tears.
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