"Askew" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... southward to Burgundy and the sun in what they call "The Slope of Gold." From this village a priest, William, had come to Paris in 1423. They gave him a canonry in that little church called "St. Bennets Askew," which stood in the midst of the University, near Sorbonne, where the Rue des Ecoles crosses the Rue St. Jacques to-day. Hither, to his house in the cloister, he brought the boy, a waif whom he had found much ...
— Avril - Being Essays on the Poetry of the French Renaissance • H. Belloc
... interest occurred in our progress except at one point, near a Methodist chapel, where we caught sight of a gayly painted blue van, lettered over with many texts and mottoes, which my friend explained as one of the vans intinerantly used by extreme Protestants of the Anne Askew persuasion to prevent the spread of ...
— Seven English Cities • W. D. Howells
... the Van jacks are flying, Which makes them look kinder askew, For they see they are joining the standard With the ...
— Political Recollections - 1840 to 1872 • George W. Julian
... last to meet my predecessor, the grass growing through his ribs was tall enough to hide his bones. They were all there. The supernatural being had not been touched after he fell. And the village was deserted, the huts gaped black, rotting, all askew within the fallen enclosures. A calamity had come to it, sure enough. The people had vanished. Mad terror had scattered them, men, women, and children, through the bush, and they had never returned. What became of the hens I don't ...
— Heart of Darkness • Joseph Conrad
... hair, and his beard, They paint as black as my shoe With burnt stick, but they spoil his nose, For they stick it rather askew. ...
— King Winter • Anonymous
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