look daggers
Example Sentences
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Enyhow, I know ye've got to come to city ways when ye're to the city; folks kinder look daggers at ye ef ye don't.
From Uncle Rutherford's Nieces A Story for Girls by Mathews, Joanna H. (Joanna Hooe)
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 fun of them.
From East O' the Sun and West O' the Moon by Thorne-Thomsen, Gudrun
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)
They look daggers at me if I put my head into the schoolroom.'
From The Two Sides of the Shield by Yonge, Charlotte Mary
I hope no one was within earshot but his brothers, who certainly did look daggers at him.
From Magnum Bonum by Yonge, Charlotte Mary
