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glower
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  • I glower at the roll sure he meant to insult me.†   (source)
  • Dad stood on the bridge glowering at the alligator.†   (source)
  • "Now, listen here, you lot," he said, glowering at them all.†   (source)
  • Stacey glowered at T.J. a moment longer, then walked swiftly to Little Man and put his long arm around his shoulders, saying softly, "Come on, Man.†   (source)
  • The storm clouds glower above the treetops across the road.†   (source)
  • He knew it, I think, and glowered, which made my sister glitter all the more.†   (source)
  • She met him outside, stood up as straight as she could, and glowered at him.†   (source)
  • A dark, fanged creature lurked just behind the hero, glowering malevolently.†   (source)
  • Fache glowered, clearly unmoved.†   (source)
  • This was an angry, glowering red, the color of an infected wound.†   (source)
  • He glowers at camera.†   (source)
  • If she asked to hold Zalmai-or, worse, if Zalmai reached for her-Rasheed glowered at her.†   (source)
  • Her daughter, curled up next to her on the sofa, just glowered—the kind of face Mum used to warn me would stick in place if the wind changed.†   (source)
  • "You," Mr. Curtain repeated, looming over the children and glowering in particular at Reynie.†   (source)
  • All the adults were dying to jump up and turn the thing down, but Lynetta stood guard and just glowered at them.†   (source)
  • It gloated and glowered and loomed.†   (source)
  • Philippa approached, ignoring Celaena's glower as she adjusted the folds of the assassin's gown, fluffing them in the right places.†   (source)
  • Barb Wiggin glowered back at her husband.†   (source)
  • On all four walls hang framed tintypes of glowering ancestors. is this where they arrest boys whose sisters listen to foreign radio stations?†   (source)
  • The door opened and Kirsti stomped in, her face tear-stained and glowering.†   (source)
  • Another time nearly straight up, sighting the tiny, glowering speck of greenish light that was their mothership sliding silently across the backdrop of the Milky Way.†   (source)
  • Brinker glowered at me.†   (source)
  • Jack of Diamonds, with tarty tart crumbs on his cheeks, down the front of his waistcoat, and in his wig, glowered at them.†   (source)
  • At this question I saw Emma, who had been glowering in a corner, rise from her chair and stalk out of the room.†   (source)
  • She could not read the faintest sign of welcome in his thin stern lips or in the dark eyes that glowered fiercely at her from under heavy grizzled eyebrows.†   (source)
  • Donal Noye stood glowering at them.†   (source)
  • He loses the glower and stirs the granola and honey into my yogurt.†   (source)
  • Dr. Erland turned, found her glower bearing down on him.†   (source)
  • He glowered up under his eyebrows.†   (source)
  • Father glowered.†   (source)
  • "No," said Boris, glowering suddenly and pushing back in his chair.†   (source)
  • He's never said a word to me except, "Will that be all today?" after he has rung up my purchases, glowering at me from underneath the heavy shade of his eyelids.†   (source)
  • I turned and glowered at them.†   (source)
  • Even though she smelled and glowered and hissed and poked, she had a spark the rest of us lacked.†   (source)
  • Glowering venomously, Sloan slipped into the back room.†   (source)
  • But Nelson glowered, still waiting for evidence that my birth had not brought down a plague upon my house.†   (source)
  • Mr. Harris asks, again glowering at Sam.†   (source)
  • I glowered in silence while sidling closer.†   (source)
  • I could see Jessica glowering at us now.†   (source)
  • We had all been warned these glowering Afghanistan tribesmen would fight, and none of them were likely to be pushovers.†   (source)
  • They glowered at us as we passed them, but said nothing.†   (source)
  • He gives Y.T. a disapproving glower— she, after all, forced him to be attracted to her, forced him to get horny, made his head swim-she didn't have to get arrested, did she?†   (source)
  • Yetta only glowered more.†   (source)
  • The department head is Alfonse (Fast Food) Stompanato, a broad-chested glowering man whose collection of prewar soda pop bottles is on permanent display in an alcove.†   (source)
  • He kept fiddling with his shotgun and glowered unpleasantly at the three of them as if he felt like shooting them on the spot.†   (source)
  • Dorothea rose from the armchair to her full, magnificent height, and glowered down at them.†   (source)
  • Although the day had begun so fine and clear, by noon it had become very oppressive and glowering.†   (source)
  • I glowered at him.†   (source)
  • I know from the second Ellen shows up, glowering like Elvis, that this is going to be good.†   (source)
  • And he saw through the windows in each of the stairwells how the snow fell hard out of a glowering sky and boiled, borne by the wind.†   (source)
  • Dark, glowering woodwork, burnt-brown leather chairs, walls that might once have been white but had succumbed under a spreading malady of mold or damp.†   (source)
  • Salander glowered back with an expression that did not indicate any warm feelings.†   (source)
  • When Billy deLois and Henry Trennant, class-cutters extraordinaire, slunk in, he glowered at them happily and prepared to talk tough.†   (source)
  • By seven o'clock the sky had glowered into an inky blue, and I zipped up my coat for warmth.†   (source)
  • She glowers at me.†   (source)
  • Jordan glowered at her and sank into the chair across from her, his hands still cupped around his sleeping son.†   (source)
  • Vivaldo suddenly raised his arms and laughed—and the policeman moved directly behind him, glowering, seeming to wait for an occult go-ahead signal—and covered the space between himself and Eric and threw both arms around him.†   (source)
  • I met Lord Bethell in the prison commander's office, which was dominated by a large photograph of a glowering President Botha.†   (source)
  • When he finally breaks free, he straightens his lapels and glowers at his now-sulking wife.†   (source)
  • Helene glowers at me, but her hands shake as she gives me the water.†   (source)
  • Gene Johnson glowered over the table, bearded and silent.†   (source)
  • I followed Mundin into the shed, turning every so often and glowering at Fifi, who trailed behind us.†   (source)
  • Zu looked at me with a smile that seemed particularly bright next to Chubs's glowering face.†   (source)
  • I couldn't do anything right, and he just glowered at me like Claggart when I made a stupid mistake.†   (source)
  • Glowering from the cover of newsweeklies.†   (source)
  • The man broke the glass with a glowering intensity, looking neither at the girl nor at Miro.†   (source)
  • Colin couldn't help but laugh; Hollis glowered.†   (source)
  • The adults stop as well, some glowering, and the tension rises.†   (source)
  • His mouth was set in its habitual glower, the corners bent downward in perfect convexity, and his ashen head blended seamlessly into the white clouds overhead.†   (source)
  • Mrs. Nightwing glowers at us over the tops of her spectacles.†   (source)
  • She moved a strand of hair from her face and glowered at him.†   (source)
  • "Try something bigger than a Coke bottle," Fredi said while Lorenzo glowered.†   (source)
  • Hattie glowered.†   (source)
  • I check her out while she glowers at him.†   (source)
  • She looked upon Gimli, who sat glowering and sad, and she smiled.†   (source)
  • Charles rose, glowering.†   (source)
  • Roth called my name — the usual disgruntled glower was all over his face.†   (source)
  • He shook me off and then knelt down near the pillow, glowering at me.†   (source)
  • He was a glowering, vengeful, disillusioned Indian who hated foreigners with names like Cathcart, Korn, Black and Havermeyer and wished they'd all go back to where their lousy ancestors had come from.†   (source)
  • Cedric slides to a small table, his face squeezed into a glower The new principal, Dr. Kenneth Jones, approaches.†   (source)
  • Instantly, Jessica wrapped herself in the old blanket, and Casey, shivering visibly, glowered at her with envy as she pulled on her seat belt.†   (source)
  • The Hasidic students sulked, scowled, glowered, and then forgot it, too.†   (source)
  • He glowered at me silently, then pointed to the floor.†   (source)
  • It was instead the face of a glowering old man at odds with life and the world.†   (source)
  • Glowering, wrapped by bulletproof confidence, Mahalia said, "Nobody's gonna lay one little finger on Rosie."†   (source)
  • Perhaps it is the fault of the mountains, glowering above us, delaying sunrise and hastening the night.†   (source)
  • Its multi-colored, dome-shaped eyes glowered into the darkness.†   (source)
  • "If it's prison glower," the physician explained, "he'll lose the sight in that eye, and if the infection spreads, he'll be blind in both."†   (source)
  • Max glowered and flicked a crumb off the table.†   (source)
  • His eyes glower.†   (source)
  • The dark moon glowered over them, almost risen all the way, but it didn't seem to crowd the sky as oppressively as it had last night.†   (source)
  • Shade, stop glowering, will you?†   (source)
  • He glowered back, forcing Tradd to drop his eyes as he resumed talking to Mark.†   (source)
  • Alessandro wheeled around and glowered at him.†   (source)
  • Then I glance at Chaz and Shari, to see that both of them are looking at me, Chaz with a little grin on his face, Shari with a glower that clearly says,Don't you back down.†   (source)
  • She smacked them away and glowered at him.†   (source)
  • The Captain pulled off dirty gloves and shook his head with contempt, glowering up at Chamberlain.†   (source)
  • At this point it seemed to occur to the chairman that Hisham had taken up too much of his time and he glowered, and shouted at him in a sudden fury, "Enough!†   (source)
  • Instead of letting them start separate new lives like the Japanese, who could become samurais and geishas, the Chinese family, faces averted but eyes glowering sideways, hung on to the offenders and fed them leftovers.†   (source)
  • Under all that glowering, he trusts me.†   (source)
  • From time to time she looks at Nathan—she seems to seek him, to make sure that he is there—and then she glowers while the people talk.†   (source)
  • After a glower of indecision, she holds the empty plate out for more.†   (source)
  • BROWN' glowers at DRUMMOND.†   (source)
  • I hated the ugly board fence, I hated the sickly weeds, I hated the stone and brick walls and dirty windows that glowered down at me when I searched for the sky, and I hated the laundry that dangled from the overhead clotheslines as far as I could see.†   (source)
  • I'm damm sick," Ruby glowered.†   (source)
  • No, he glowers at us through Satan-tilted eyes and demands to know: "What you want with Haha?"†   (source)
  • Pamphil was a huge man with black tousled hair and beard and a bumpy forehead that looked double; a thickening of the frontal bone, like a ring or a steel band pressed over his temples, gave him a beetling, glowering look.†   (source)
  • Sam, an ill-tempered Messiah, glowering at his humble disciples.†   (source)
  • The boy glowered at his grandfather, but he did not dare to speak again.†   (source)
  • Sirius had come back; he was glowering at the elf from the doorway.†   (source)
  • The nurse—a burly, glowering Muslim man named Gul—tells me I may die of hepatitis.†   (source)
  • Damien and Chiara sat together at the canoe dock, glowering in my direction.†   (source)
  • Glowering, Eragon exclaimed, "This will mean war!†   (source)
  • His buddy Loincloth glowered at Piper, waiting for her to do something entertaining.†   (source)
  • His furious glower made it hard to answer.†   (source)
  • Some people, like Neville, had paid up just to stop Hermione from glowering at them.†   (source)
  • Krum cracked his knuckles menacingly and glowered at Xenophilius.†   (source)
  • Twelve-year-old Jimmy stood between them, glowering at the camera from behind thick eyeglasses.†   (source)
  • He glowered at Arya through his thick beard.†   (source)
  • We're done for the year," Drager said, his dark eyes glowering.†   (source)
  • The green eyes glowering at me are unlike any dog or wolf, any canine I've ever seen.†   (source)
  • I murmured, ignoring him when he glowered.†   (source)
  • Hemme glowered at me as I paused, saying.†   (source)
  • Danny sat on the edge of his chair, glowering.†   (source)
  • Kai would have grumbled if he hadn't felt Torin's glower upon him.†   (source)
  • Dr. Marshall asked me as I chewed Jolly Ranchers and glowered out the window.†   (source)
  • Yeah, well,' said Harry, glowering at his plate, 'since when has Snape ever been fair to me?†   (source)
  • Narcissa murmured a word of thanks, whilst Bellatrix said nothing, but continued to glower at Snape.†   (source)
  • Behind Alec, glowering darkly, was Robert Lightwood.†   (source)
  • He was about to leave when he spotted Claude and walked over, glowering.†   (source)
  • Across the table, Flintstone is glowering at me from beneath the unibrow.†   (source)
  • A portrait of the fuhrer glowers over every classroom.†   (source)
  • How patiently he gazed at each of them, glowering in careful study, nodding.†   (source)
  • Seated beside the glowering king, Perrington fumed.†   (source)
  • He'd find his father at the kitchen table, shoulders hunched, glowering at his paperwork.†   (source)
  • Breathing heavily, Hagrid gave Karkaroff a glowering look.†   (source)
  • Jacob glared at Alice while Jasper glowered at Jacob.†   (source)
  • He refused to drop his gaze, but glowered at Snape until Snape looked away.†   (source)
  • Shagga glowered, a fearsome sight to see.†   (source)
  • "Stop glowering and sulking," Chaol chided.†   (source)
  • He glowered at Eragon from under his bushy eyebrows.†   (source)
  • She was glowering at Carlisle with a resentful expression.†   (source)
  • Adri was sitting stiff beside the hearth, glowering at Cinder as if she'd been waiting for her.†   (source)
  • Edward glowered, and his lips pulled back from his teeth ever so slightly.†   (source)
  • Lord Rickard Karstark glowered in silence.†   (source)
  • I asked when I was sure I had lost the glowering contest.†   (source)
  • But Krum glowered at him, and Harry, somehow struck anew by how tall Krum was, elaborated.†   (source)
  • "Just trying to make up to well-connected people," said Zabini, who was still glowering at Goyle.†   (source)
  • The king took a swallow of wine and glowered at Ned across the council table.†   (source)
  • "So we asked for our money back," said George glowering.†   (source)
  • When I was in control again, I glowered at her.†   (source)
  • "I vant to know," he said, glowering, "vot there is between you and Hermy-ownninny."†   (source)
  • It's not the same," Jacob repeated, glowering at me.†   (source)
  • I thought this would calm him, but for a long, frightening moment he continued to glower at me.†   (source)
  • The big man glowered at the board, then rose and growled something in his own tongue.†   (source)
  • Max stood tall and glowered down at his roommate.†   (source)
  • At last Kolbyt broke away, glowering and wiping his nostrils with a brawny forearm.†   (source)
  • The look he gave her could only be described as a glower.†   (source)
  • She scowled again, her face all horse teeth and glowering suspicion.†   (source)
  • Eragon glowered at him, then, faster than the eye could see, snatched the bread away from Roran.†   (source)
  • You can see it in his face, chin thrust out, a glower working under his brow.†   (source)
  • I glowered groggily out the windshield until we were almost to the house.†   (source)
  • She slinks off to Creostus's side, glowering at us all.†   (source)
  • Vilyak said nothing but stared at Max with a disbelieving glower.†   (source)
  • Ross grumbled, twitched the mustache, stroked the ends lovingly, glowered.†   (source)
  • Thor glowered down at the thousand dead enemies now littering the slopes.†   (source)
  • Glowering down from Aegon's High Hill, the Red Keep commanded the approaches.†   (source)
  • She gave me a long warning glower, and then she disappeared, too.†   (source)
  • The colonel punished him sadistically with a long, glowering, malignant, hateful, silent stare.†   (source)
  • If it were glower, the eye would be more red by now and much more sensitive to the light.†   (source)
  • Chubs glowered at me from over the rims of his glasses.†   (source)
  • With a snarl Malachi kicked the raven savagely out of his way and strode toward Clary, glowering.†   (source)
  • Roran glowered at him, then he grunted and raised his hands.†   (source)
  • Its glowering eyes were luminous and yellow.†   (source)
  • He shoved the woman away and closed his fist, glowering.†   (source)
  • He glowers, but there's a small ember of doubt in his eyes, the first I've seen.†   (source)
  • The others in the room continued to glower, their tools still in their hands.†   (source)
  • He gripped the hilt of his sword and glowered at anyone who dared stare at her too openly.†   (source)
  • Thor glowered at the neighborhood-size corpse in the middle of the icy swamp.†   (source)
  • He glowered at me and started to speak, but I cut him off.†   (source)
  • He tugged his arms free and glowered at Percy.†   (source)
  • Hades glowered, smoothing the folds of his robes.†   (source)
  • Max glowered at him before glancing again at the branch.†   (source)
  • Rolling onto his side, he took a deep breath and glowered at Ms.†   (source)
  • Glowering, he spoke through clenched teeth.†   (source)
  • He glowered at me in the darkness, an impotent sullenness to his anger.†   (source)
  • Damasen looked down at her, glowering under his bushy red eyebrows.†   (source)
  • He didn't glower this time, but shifted a little on the chair.†   (source)
  • He paced like a caged wolf, glowering and swinging his head.†   (source)
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