look daggers
Example Sentences
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I could only laugh and try to look daggers at Ernest, who sat looking over a magazine, apparently absorbed in its contents.
From Stepping Heavenward by Prentiss, E. (Elizabeth)
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)
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
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
Mrs. Barr, on this, ceased to look daggers and substituted icicles; but on the hateful beauty moving away, dropped the icicles, and resumed the poniards.
From A Simpleton by Reade, Charles
