look daggers at

Example Sentences

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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

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)

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)

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.