look daggers
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Enyhow, I know ye've got to come to city ways when ye're to the city; folks kinder look daggers at ye ef ye don't.
From Uncle Rutherford's Nieces A Story for Girls by Joanna H. (Joanna Hooe) Mathews
She had to dress her, and look daggers at her satin skin and royal neck, and to sit behind her an hour at a time combing and brushing her long golden hair.
From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 17, No. 103, May, 1866 by Various
But the flock never stopped—on it went and all that the goody and the man did was to look daggers at the smith for making fun of them.
From East O' the Sun and West O' the Moon by Gudrun Thorne-Thomsen
For myself, having acquired only polite French, I can but "look daggers" when I am abused.
From Pencillings by the Way Written During Some Years of Residence and Travel in Europe by N. Parker Willis
You might look daggers at him for an hour and he would not notice it, and it would not trouble him if he did.
From Three Men in a Boat by Jerome K. (Jerome Klapka) Jerome
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