look daggers
Example Sentences
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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
They look daggers at me if I put my head into the schoolroom.'
From The Two Sides of the Shield by Yonge, Charlotte Mary
He was very musical, you know; he'd look daggers at you if you happened to sneeze in the middle of one of his Beethoven sonatas.
From The Story of Julia Page by Norris, Kathleen Thompson
I hope no one was within earshot but his brothers, who certainly did look daggers at him.
From Magnum Bonum by Yonge, Charlotte Mary
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)
