look daggers
Example Sentences
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I hope no one was within earshot but his brothers, who certainly did look daggers at him.
From Magnum Bonum by Yonge, Charlotte Mary
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 Willis, N. Parker
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)
But if one tears a lace flounce, you know, they look daggers.
From Vixen, Volume I. by Braddon, M. E. (Mary Elizabeth)
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)
