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)

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.

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

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

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