look daggers
Example Sentences
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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)
For myself, having acquired only polite French, I can but "look daggers" when I am abused.
From Pencillings by the Way Written During Some Years of Residence and Travel in Europe by Willis, N. Parker
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 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.
