look coldly upon

Example Sentences

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My own carelessness is always to blame," said Brian, with a heavy sigh, "and I don't wonder that you look coldly upon me, Dino, when I seem to have done you such an unfriendly turn.

From Under False Pretences A Novel by Sergeant, Adeline

Here was a man who possessed a title, was handsome, rich, and of assured social position: it would take an extraordinary American girl to look coldly upon his attentions.

From Man on the Box by MacGrath, Harold

Former associates shun and look coldly upon him, his female relatives are ashamed to be seen walking with him, often the door of his father's cottage or workshop is shut on his approach.

From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 60, No. 370, August 1846 by Various

And if it be so, how is it that we Christians have learned to look coldly upon the effigies of those who sowed the seed of the harvest which we have reaped?—Sanguis martyrum semen Christianorum! 

From Literary and General Lectures and Essays by Kingsley, Charles

The magnates of the county began to look coldly upon him, and even, in some instances, to array themselves in open opposition to him.

From The Story of the Upper Canada Rebellion by Dent, John Charles