look daggers

Example Sentences

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She had to dress her, and look daggers at her satin skin and royal neck, and to sit behind her an hour at a time combing and brushing her long golden hair.

From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 17, No. 103, May, 1866 by Various

Mrs. Barr, on this, ceased to look daggers and substituted icicles; but on the hateful beauty moving away, dropped the icicles, and resumed the poniards.

From A Simpleton by Reade, Charles

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)

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)