Which preposition to use with squint
Each of us, having wisely squinted at the sky, made a reckoning and guessed where we would be when the sun set.
Beaumaroy regarded his squat paunchy figure, red face, small eyes (a squint in one of them), and bulbous nose with a patient and benign toleration.
Thrackles, too, his eye squinted along some bearing of his own, was waiting for her to drag.
"Captain, lave me have a squint through yer glass," and Terrence, assuming a liberty which he only could, took the glass from his hand.
Sometimes when I have caught that sidelong squint of yours, that studied accidental glance which sees so much, I have felt almost sure that you were far from satisfied that Trehayne was the man he gave himself out to be.
" "He has already come," announced Hinpoha, after thoughtfully squinting into the bottle.
And if we got it despite his lead of aces, how gravely he squinted on the cards against deception, with his glasses forward on his nose!
To satisfy any doubts on this subject, Tucker took the wooden box in which we had brought the hypsometer, laid it on the snow, leveled it up carefully with the Stanley pocket level, and took a squint over it toward the north peak.
Let the planting of hemp be made penal, because it squints toward coercion.
"You can look forward to the shame-bench if you don't keep quiet," Max retorted, squinting with his eyes in the direction of the teacher.
" The Arab hesitated a moment, squinting by the dim light that now had faded to purple dusk.
I think that prophecy squinted towards my drama.
It came, and there was page after page of odd and ugly faces, strange noses, stranger eyes, squinting out of the book in hideous array.
Those white blotchesone would say they were houses!" Indifferent, yet interested, too, in the appearance of reality, the man remained sitting on the dune, squinting from under his torn burnous.
This man, with a long, thin face, was constantly squinting past Cosme's shoulder, squinting and leering and stretching his great full-lipped mouth into a queer half-smile.
We shall find it much easier to look through a couple of glasses that squint for us.
Whose Ignorance and Passions, weare an eye Squint to all parts of true Humanity.
He waded back to the island with a full load of provisions and cooking utensils, and in three minutes he was squinting against the smoke of a camp-fire while he poured water from a canteen into his blackened coffee pot.
Ragging banter and jest and worse than jest and grim defiance are exchanged between the trenches when they are within such easy hearing distance of each other; but always from a safe position behind the parapet which the adversaries squint across through their periscopes.
That is to say, someone was arriving, and all the little children turned out in a body to run after the stranger, while the old women came to their doors with their knitting, and squinted under the bright sunlight to see what was the matter.
You won't get any handsomer, by squinting like poor Joe; nor speak any pleasanter for lisping like me; nor walk any better for apeing hobbling.