look daggers
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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 Francis A. (Francis Alexander) Durivage
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 Gudrun Thorne-Thomsen
But if one tears a lace flounce, you know, they look daggers.
From Vixen, Volume I. by M. E. (Mary Elizabeth) Braddon
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 E. (Elizabeth) Prentiss
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 N. Parker Willis
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