look daggers

Example Sentences

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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 Thorne-Thomsen, Gudrun

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)

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

From Magnum Bonum by Yonge, Charlotte Mary

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

They look daggers at me if I put my head into the schoolroom.'

From The Two Sides of the Shield by Yonge, Charlotte Mary