look daggers
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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)
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)
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
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
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