hostile stare
Example Sentences
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He wanted to get out of Lord Evelyn's house, out of the range of his kindly, whimsical smile and Cheriton's curious hostile stare; he wanted to be alone with Hilary, and to understand.
From The Lee Shore by Macaulay, Rose, Dame
Nearly everyone nodded and smiled, but one girl who sat at the far end of a long typewriter table regarded her with an intent, almost hostile stare.
From Signal in the Dark by Wirt, Mildred A. (Mildred Augustine)
It flew open almost immediately, and a fierce-looking little man confronted us with a hostile stare.
From John Thorndyke's Cases related by Christopher Jervis and edited by R. Austin Freeman by Freeman, R. Austin (Richard Austin)
Mahaffy, keenly alive to this fact, returned Carrington's glance with a fixed and hostile stare.
From The Prodigal Judge by Kester, Vaughan
Miss Anstruther and Susan exchanged bows—Susan's timid and frightened, Miss Anstruther's accompanied by a hostile stare and a hardening of the fat, decaying face.
From Susan Lenox: Her Fall and Rise by Phillips, David Graham
