Scowled
[skauld]
Definition
(imp. & p. p.) of Scowl
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Examples
- On the contrary, they only scowled at us and said never a word. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- When Tarzan killed he more often smiled than scowled, and smiles are the foundation of beauty. Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes.
- Vous ne voulez pas de moi pour voisin, he growled: vous vous donnez des airs de caste; vous me traitez en paria; he scowled. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- He did not commend; at some passages he scowled and stamped. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- Mr. Osborne scowled. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- His eyes were swollen and bloodshot, and he seemed to have forgotten that any one was by; he scowled at the watchers when he saw them. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
- The angry flush had not disappeared, however; and when he was pulled out of his prison, he scowled boldly on Noah, and looked quite undismayed. Charles Dickens. Oliver Twist.
- He scowled at first; then, as if recollecting something, he said-- Right, right! Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
- Meg lifted her eyebrows, but Jo scowled at her defiantly and said at once, Of course you may. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
- Saying which the doctor scowled magnanimously on the stranger, and whispered his friend Lieutenant Tappleton. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
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