The face of a streetwalker glazed and haggard under a black straw hat peered askew round the door of the shelter palpably reconnoitring on her own with the object of bringing more grist to her mill.
A frowsy whore with black straw sailor hat askew came glazily in the day along the quay towards Mr Bloom.
He heaves his booty, tugs askew his peaked cap and hobbles off mutely.
Askew paid this demand, even to the odd shillings, and then enclosed the receipt to Mr. Hogarth, to produce at the next meeting of artists.
His wrists projected offensively from his coat sleeves, he perceived a huge asymmetry in the collar of his jacket, his red tie was askewand ill tied, and that waterproof collar!
Oratory all askewto the street, seemed to have a similar quarrel with fate.
The steel sphere lay as before, slightly askewupon a bank of glossy ferns.
Tommy moved toward the great solenoid which lay askewupon its wrecked support.
Selby sat back sharply in his chair, his ragged moustache bristling, his glasses malevolently askew on his nose.
The next day, 16th July, Mrs. Askew and her three fellow-prisoners were taken from Newgate to Smithfield.
In the 1563 edition of Foxe’s Martyrs there is a most curious engraving, probably after an original drawing, representing the burning of Anne Askew and her companions.
The text of the full confession of Mrs. Askew will be found among the State Papers for 1545, Nos.
After a time he became a notorious “gospeller,” and was finally arrested with Anne Askew and a man named Christopher White.
Mrs. Askew bravely endured the most horrible torments rather than betray her friends’ trust, and only yielded so far as to admit that whilst in prison she had received ten shillings, delivered by a man in a blue livery.
Six years later, another martyr, Joan Bocher, one of the last of his many victims, reminded the Archbishop that he had martyred her friend Anne Askew for teaching more or less the same doctrines he now preached himself.
ANNE ASKEW It was in the latter years of Henry VIII’s reign that Stephen Gardiner, Bishop of Winchester, conceived his scheme for the reconciliation of England and England’s monarch with the Roman Pontiff.
At the very last moment Mrs. Askew was offered a pardon on condition that she recanted and gave up the names of her high-born friends.
Anne Askewwas eventually arraigned before the King’s Justices at Guildhall for speaking against the Sacrament of the Altar, contrary to the Statute of the Six Articles.
He knew that his pillow had been dented with the shape of his head, and that it had lain askew on the bed; it was just as it had been.
She stood staring after him blankly, her hat askew on the back of her head, and her lips parted in futile astonishment.
He studied it, pencil in hand and notebook by his side, filled with diagrams and contours of country and little parallelograms all askew denoting Army Corps or divisions.
Anne Askew was a member of an old Lincolnshire family, being the daughter of Sir William Askew or Ayscough; her birthplace was probably Stallingborough, near Grimsby.
At any rate, he drove the peg which is to support the new head askew into the neck, and as no historian has recorded that Berenice ever had her neck on one side, like the old color-grinder there, I must see to its being straight myself.
I'm coming with you,' said Mamma, putting on her hat all askew and flinging on her cloak; and go with him she did.
She sat slightly askew and ate eagerly, stooping over her plate with smiling mouth and downcast heavily-freckled face.
Askew was the author of a manuscript volume of Greek and Latin Inscriptions, copied by him during his travels in Greece and the Levant.
Askew was a Fellow and Registrar of the College of Physicians, and also a Fellow of the Royal Society.
In 1750, having finished his travels, Askew returned to Cambridge, where he practised for some time as a physician.
Askew was an indefatigable collector, and filled his house from the ground floor to the attics with rare and handsomely bound books.
Though it was to be remarked that his full-flowing peruke was seldom askew and the lace of his cravat and the ruffles below the huge cuffs of his Ramillie coat were of the finest point.
At the terrace steps the concourse halted and out upon this clamorous throng the quiet figure of the Major limped, his wig a little askew as usual.
I remember it as an integral part of that picture that far away across the sandy stretches one of those white estate boards I have described, stuck up a little askew amidst the yellow-green turf upon the crest of the low cliffs.
They fled down a tiny water-course, midget figures in an infinity of earth and sky, scurrying frenziedly from a red slug-like thing that lay askew in a mountain valley.
It lay a little askew upon the ground, seeming to be partly buried in the earth.
Askew gave three guineas for his copy, which was bought for the British Museum at his sale for L13, 2s.
Askew bought many books at Mead's sale, and when the same volumes came to be sold at his own sale they realised twice and thrice the prices he had given.
Copy on vellum, Lord Orford gave L105 for it; Askew purchased it for one-fifth of that price.
When Askew died in 1774 they were offered to a collector for two thousand guineas, but the price was considered too large.
Askew gave L3 for his copy; at his sale it was purchased by the British Museum for thirteen guineas.
Mead, at whose sale it was bought by Askew for L2, 12s.
Poor old "Parsnips" Askew has been sacked after thirty years' service, for incompetence.
At the upper end of this bank, flanked by four leafless leprous palms, there rose a long building, askew upon its rotting piles, with torn tin roof and shutters fallen outward.
We must go to Mr. Askew and ask him to come and meet him, so that a proper settlement may be prepared.
Mr. Askewstood at the window, watching the figure of the prospective bridegroom limping down the road.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "askew" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
