look coldly upon

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Did I not mock you and scorn you and look coldly upon you?

From A Volunteer with Pike The True Narrative of One Dr. John Robinson and of His Love for the Fair Señorita Vallois by Bennet, Robert Ames

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

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

Sweet Lady, wouldst thou look coldly upon me did I come with banners unfurled and men in arms against him thou callest thine uncle?

From In the Days of Chivalry by Everett-Green, Evelyn

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