look daggers

Example Sentences

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He is apt to pass his hand frequently through his "horrent locks," to frown darkly without any possible reason, and to look daggers at his landlady when invited to help himself to brown-bread toast.

From The Three Brides, Love in a Cottage, and Other Tales by Durivage, Francis A. (Francis Alexander)

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.

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

From Magnum Bonum by Yonge, Charlotte Mary

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