look daggers

Example Sentences

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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

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

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 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

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 game of them.

From Tales from the Fjeld A Second Series of Popular Tales by Asbj?rnsen, P. Chr.