look daggers

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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

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

He is apt to pass his hand frequently through his "horrent locks," to frown darkly without any possible reason, and to look daggers at his landlady when invited to help himself to brown-bread toast.

From The Three Brides, Love in a Cottage, and Other Tales by Durivage, Francis A. (Francis Alexander)

But if one tears a lace flounce, you know, they look daggers.

From Vixen, Volume I. by Braddon, M. E. (Mary Elizabeth)

I hope no one was within earshot but his brothers, who certainly did look daggers at him.

From Magnum Bonum by Yonge, Charlotte Mary