look daggers
Example Sentences
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But if one tears a lace flounce, you know, they look daggers.
From Vixen, Volume I. by Braddon, M. E. (Mary Elizabeth)
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 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)
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
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
