look daggers at

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

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

I hope no one was within earshot but his brothers, who certainly did look daggers at him.

From Magnum Bonum by Yonge, Charlotte Mary

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)

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)