look daggers at
Example Sentences
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I could only laugh and try to look daggers at Ernest, who sat looking over a magazine, apparently absorbed in its contents.
From Stepping Heavenward by Prentiss, E. (Elizabeth)
They look daggers at me if I put my head into the schoolroom.'
From The Two Sides of the Shield by Yonge, Charlotte Mary
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, Jerome K. (Jerome Klapka)
She could only look daggers at him, with occasionally an expression of staring wonder at a nonchalance that disproved twenty years of authority.
From Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland, Vol. 9 by Various
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 Mathews, Joanna H. (Joanna Hooe)
