hostile stare
Example Sentences
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He turned to the mantelpiece for his tobacco-jar, and Rosa, after standing for some time at the "ready" with a hostile stare, cleared her throat noisily and withdrew.
From Salthaven by Jacobs, W. W. (William Wymark)
There was the same cold, hostile stare that he had had from the boss of the fertilizer mill.
From The Jungle by Sinclair, Upton
He grew pale and gave H�flinger a hostile stare.
From The German Classics of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries Masterpieces of German Literature Vol. 19 by Various
Mahaffy, keenly alive to this fact, returned Carrington's glance with a fixed and hostile stare.
From The Prodigal Judge by Kester, Vaughan
Yet his eagerness did not trip him into carelessness, and so long as the guards could see, he greeted me with a hostile stare.
From Montlivet by Smith, Alice Prescott
