look daggers
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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
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 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)
They look daggers at me if I put my head into the schoolroom.'
From The Two Sides of the Shield 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 game of them.
From Tales from the Fjeld A Second Series of Popular Tales by Asbj?rnsen, P. Chr.
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