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 game of them.
From Tales from the Fjeld A Second Series of Popular Tales by Asbj?rnsen, P. Chr.
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
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)
But if one tears a lace flounce, you know, they look daggers.
From Vixen, Volume I. by Braddon, M. E. (Mary 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)
