Phillips's brief reforming energy was over; he didn't want the bother of punishing a dozen pupils; but it was necessary to do something to save his word, so he looked about for a scapegoat and found it in Anne, who had dropped into her seat, gasping for breath, with a forgotten lily wreath hanging askew over one ear and giving her a particularly rakish and disheveled appearance.
But Marilla could not rid herself of the notion that something in her scheme of punishment was going askew.
Now it was a faded, dreary old place, with a leprous, patched roof and shutters hanging askew.
Askew diagonal stripes can add to a curvy look.
They all seemed depressed; and Hauser had brought an old spelling-book with gnawed edges, which he held wide-open on his knee, with his great spectacles askew.
Yet I had noted generally all the others—with their caps askew and their school sathels haning at various lengthes from their shoulders.
They all seemed depressed; and Hauser had brought an old spelling-book with gnawed edges, which he held wide-open on his knee, with his great spectacles askew.
"Now then, old shaver, what has gone askew with you?
