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  • I glower at the roll sure he meant to insult me.†   (source)
  • A dark, fanged creature lurked just behind the hero, glowering malevolently.†   (source)
  • "Now, listen here, you lot," he said, glowering at them all.†   (source)
  • Dad stood on the bridge glowering at the alligator.†   (source)
  • Father glowered.†   (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)
  • Nights, they went on careening drives, Henry glowering and accelerating through curves while tree trunks strobed past and the dogs slid across the back seat.†   (source)
  • She met him outside, stood up as straight as she could, and glowered at him.†   (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)
  • If she asked to hold Zalmai-or, worse, if Zalmai reached for her-Rasheed glowered at her.†   (source)
  • Fache glowered, clearly unmoved.†   (source)
  • All the adults were dying to jump up and turn the thing down, but Lynetta stood guard and just glowered at them.†   (source)
  • He glowers at camera.†   (source)
  • On all four walls hang framed tintypes of glowering ancestors.†   (source)
  • This was an angry, glowering red, the color of an infected wound.†   (source)
  • It gloated and glowered and loomed.†   (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)
  • Jordan glowered at her and sank into the chair across from her, his hands still cupped around his sleeping son.†   (source)
  • My grandmother glowered, but she would not raise her hands; she made herself listen, although I could tell it was painful for her to hear it—and that was when I heard it: the children on the high-school athletic fields.†   (source)
  • Philippa approached, ignoring Celaena's glower as she adjusted the folds of the assassin's gown, fluffing them in the right places.†   (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)
  • Donal Noye stood glowering at them.†   (source)
  • The door opened and Kirsti stomped in, her face tear-stained and glowering.†   (source)
  • Brinker glowered at me.†   (source)
  • "You," Mr. Curtain repeated, looming over the children and glowering in particular at Reynie.†   (source)
  • He glowered up under his eyebrows.†   (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)
  • Dr. Erland turned, found her glower bearing down on him.†   (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)
  • "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)
  • Mr. Harris asks, again glowering at Sam.†   (source)
  • I know from the second Ellen shows up, glowering like Elvis, that this is going to be good.†   (source)
  • Glowering venomously, Sloan slipped into the back room.†   (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)
  • 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)
  • I glowered in silence while sidling closer.†   (source)
  • I glowered at him.†   (source)
  • I could see Jessica glowering at us now.†   (source)
  • Although the day had begun so fine and clear, by noon it had become very oppressive and glowering.†   (source)
  • But Nelson glowered, still waiting for evidence that my birth had not brought down a plague upon my house.†   (source)
  • He shook me off and then knelt down near the pillow, glowering at me.†   (source)
  • "You do have it," Clary interrupted hurriedly, "but not—" Dorothea rose from the armchair to her full, magnificent height, and glowered down at them.†   (source)
  • When Billy deLois and Henry Trennant, class-cutters extraordinaire, slunk in, he glowered at them happily and prepared to talk tough.†   (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)
  • We had all been warned these glowering Afghanistan tribesmen would fight, and none of them were likely to be pushovers.†   (source)
  • Even though she smelled and glowered and hissed and poked, she had a spark the rest of us lacked.†   (source)
  • Salander glowered back with an expression that did not indicate any warm feelings.†   (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)
  • Yetta only glowered more.†   (source)
  • By seven o'clock the sky had glowered into an inky blue, and I zipped up my coat for warmth.†   (source)
  • They glowered at us as we passed them, but said nothing.†   (source)
  • Zu looked at me with a smile that seemed particularly bright next to Chubs's glowering face.†   (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)
  • She glowers at me.†   (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 followed Mundin into the shed, turning every so often and glowering at Fifi, who trailed behind us.†   (source)
  • Gene Johnson glowered over the table, bearded and silent.†   (source)
  • The adults stop as well, some glowering, and the tension rises.†   (source)
  • Its multi-colored, dome-shaped eyes glowered into the darkness.†   (source)
  • I couldn't do anything right, and he just glowered at me like Claggart when I made a stupid mistake.†   (source)
  • Hattie glowered.†   (source)
  • Cedric slides to a small table, his face squeezed into a glower The new principal, Dr. Kenneth Jones, approaches.†   (source)
  • The man broke the glass with a glowering intensity, looking neither at the girl nor at Miro.†   (source)
  • When he finally breaks free, he straightens his lapels and glowers at his now-sulking wife.†   (source)
  • He loses the glower and stirs the granola and honey into my yogurt.†   (source)
  • Glowering from the cover of newsweeklies.†   (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)
  • 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)
  • 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)
  • Max glowered and flicked a crumb off the table.†   (source)
  • Mrs. Nightwing glowers at us over the tops of her spectacles.†   (source)
  • Roth called my name — the usual disgruntled glower was all over his face.†   (source)
  • She looked upon Gimli, who sat glowering and sad, and she smiled.†   (source)
  • It was instead the face of a glowering old man at odds with life and the world.†   (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)
  • Charles rose, glowering.†   (source)
  • She smacked them away and glowered at him.†   (source)
  • Helene glowers at me, but her hands shake as she gives me the water.†   (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)
  • Colin couldn't help but laugh; Hollis glowered.†   (source)
  • Perhaps it is the fault of the mountains, glowering above us, delaying sunrise and hastening the night.†   (source)
  • He glowered at me silently, then pointed to the floor.†   (source)
  • I met Lord Bethell in the prison commander's office, which was dominated by a large photograph of a glowering President Botha.†   (source)
  • Shade, stop glowering, will you?†   (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)
  • 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)
  • Alessandro wheeled around and glowered at him.†   (source)
  • I turned and glowered at them.†   (source)
  • "Try something bigger than a Coke bottle," Fredi said while Lorenzo glowered.†   (source)
  • Glowering, wrapped by bulletproof confidence, Mahalia said, "Nobody's gonna lay one little finger on Rosie."†   (source)
  • I check her out while she glowers at him.†   (source)
  • His eyes glower.†   (source)
  • She moved a strand of hair from her face and glowered at him.†   (source)
  • The Hasidic students sulked, scowled, glowered, and then forgot it, too.†   (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)
  • The Captain pulled off dirty gloves and shook his head with contempt, glowering up at Chamberlain.†   (source)
  • He glowered back, forcing Tradd to drop his eyes as he resumed talking to Mark.†   (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)
  • Under all that glowering, he trusts me.†   (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)
  • No, he glowers at us through Satan-tilted eyes and demands to know: "What you want with Haha?"†   (source)
  • I'm damm sick," Ruby glowered.†   (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)
  • Thor glowered down at the thousand dead enemies now littering the slopes.†   (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)
  • I glowered groggily out the windshield until we were almost to the house.†   (source)
  • Damien and Chiara sat together at the canoe dock, glowering in my direction.†   (source)
  • He glowered at Eragon from under his bushy eyebrows.†   (source)
  • His buddy Loincloth glowered at Piper, waiting for her to do something entertaining.†   (source)
  • The storm clouds glower above the treetops across the road.†   (source)
  • His furious glower made it hard to answer.†   (source)
  • But Krum glowered at him, and Harry, somehow struck anew by how tall Krum was, elaborated.†   (source)
  • She gave me a long warning glower, and then she disappeared, too.†   (source)
  • Krum cracked his knuckles menacingly and glowered at Xenophilius.†   (source)
  • Hemme glowered at me as I paused, saying.†   (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)
  • Twelve-year-old Jimmy stood between them, glowering at the camera from behind thick eyeglasses.†   (source)
  • A portrait of the fuhrer glowers over every classroom.†   (source)
  • Hades glowered, smoothing the folds of his robes.†   (source)
  • He glowered at Arya through his thick beard.†   (source)
  • Seated beside the glowering king, Perrington fumed.†   (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)
  • Across the table, Flintstone is glowering at me from beneath the unibrow.†   (source)
  • Danny sat on the edge of his chair, glowering.†   (source)
  • Narcissa murmured a word of thanks, whilst Bellatrix said nothing, but continued to glower at Snape.†   (source)
  • He paced like a caged wolf, glowering and swinging his head.†   (source)
  • How patiently he gazed at each of them, glowering in careful study, nodding.†   (source)
  • Barb Wiggin glowered back at her husband.†   (source)
  • Tiny cradled Elvis and headed for the bar, glowering at us over his shoulder.†   (source)
  • Kai would have grumbled if he hadn't felt Torin's glower upon him.†   (source)
  • He'd find his father at the kitchen table, shoulders hunched, glowering at his paperwork.†   (source)
  • "So we asked for our money back," said George glowering.†   (source)
  • Jacob glared at Alice while Jasper glowered at Jacob.†   (source)
  • Shagga glowered, a fearsome sight to see.†   (source)
  • "Stop glowering and sulking," Chaol chided.†   (source)
  • "Just trying to make up to well-connected people," said Zabini, who was still glowering at Goyle.†   (source)
  • Charlie glowered at Jacob once, shuddered at a memory, and then stared at me again.†   (source)
  • The only person there was the manager, Helgi, glowering at his computer screen.†   (source)
  • Glowering, Eragon exclaimed, "This will mean war!†   (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)
  • Lord Rickard Karstark glowered in silence.†   (source)
  • He was about to leave when he spotted Claude and walked over, glowering.†   (source)
  • Edward glowered, and his lips pulled back from his teeth ever so slightly.†   (source)
  • I asked when I was sure I had lost the glowering contest.†   (source)
  • "I vant to know," he said, glowering, "vot there is between you and Hermy-ownninny."†   (source)
  • He refused to drop his gaze, but glowered at Snape until Snape looked away.†   (source)
  • Breathing heavily, Hagrid gave Karkaroff a glowering look.†   (source)
  • The king took a swallow of wine and glowered at Ned across the council table.†   (source)
  • When I was in control again, I glowered at her.†   (source)
  • Some people, like Neville, had paid up just to stop Hermione from glowering at them.†   (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)
  • 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 big man glowered at the board, then rose and growled something in his own tongue.†   (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)
  • The look he gave her could only be described as a glower.†   (source)
  • She slinks off to Creostus's side, glowering at us all.†   (source)
  • She scowled again, her face all horse teeth and glowering suspicion.†   (source)
  • Ser Boros was too much of a coward to do much more than glower.†   (source)
  • Vilyak said nothing but stared at Max with a disbelieving glower.†   (source)
  • Ross grumbled, twitched the mustache, stroked the ends lovingly, glowered.†   (source)
  • Behind Alec, glowering darkly, was Robert Lightwood.†   (source)
  • The colonel punished him sadistically with a long, glowering, malignant, hateful, silent stare.†   (source)
  • It might not be glower, and there's no need to talk about breaking oaths yet.†   (source)
  • Staring right at him was a marble bust of Diocletian, his limestone face glowering with disapproval.†   (source)
  • "Enough of this nonsense!" exclaimed Orik, glowering.†   (source)
  • Glowering down from Aegon's High Hill, the Red Keep commanded the approaches.†   (source)
  • Its glowering eyes were luminous and yellow.†   (source)
  • He glowers, but there's a small ember of doubt in his eyes, the first I've seen.†   (source)
  • He climbed out, glowering at us, his fists balled, his icy blue beard dripping.†   (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)
  • He glowered at me and started to speak, but I cut him off.†   (source)
  • He shoved the woman away and closed his fist, glowering.†   (source)
  • Max glowered at him before glancing again at the branch.†   (source)
  • What's that supposed to mean?" snapped Max, glowering at his roommate.†   (source)
  • She'd always wondered what a glower actually looked like.†   (source)
  • He glowered at it a moment, before covering it with the other and setting them on his lap.†   (source)
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