Glaring

Examples

• Here, too, the bride's aunt and next relation; a widowed female of a Medusa sort, in a stoney cap, glaring petrifaction at her fellow-creatures. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• Not one of her relations, for they lay glaring on her with stony eyes. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
• As by a fascination, every eye was now directed to the glaring greenish-gray eye of Simon. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
• Of all the imperfections (not considering glaring cracks or nicks), carbon spots are the most discernible. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• Ryder stood glaring with a drawn face, uncertain whether to claim or to disown it. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
• He lay on his back, with his teeth set, his right hand clenched on his breast, and his glaring eyes looking straight upward. Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
• These she put down upon the table without a word, glaring at me the while with exemplary firmness, and then retired, locking the door after her. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
• Those eyes will be glaring at him to-night, and at your comrade Lieutenant D'Arnot. Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes.
• I always did think those frowsy, romantic, unwashed peasant girls I had read so much about in poetry were a glaring fraud. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• She looked all round the room in a glaring manner, and then said, leaning on me while her hand twitched my shoulder, Come, come, come! Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
• The only things to be seen not fixedly staring and glaring were the vines drooping under their load of grapes. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
• The Plain of the Shepherds is a desert, paved with loose stones, void of vegetation, glaring in the fierce sun. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• There he hung helpless for a moment, glaring up at me in impotent rage. Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.
• But everything in the Roman state was earlier, cruder, and clumsier; the injustices were more glaring, the conflicts harsher. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• I looked round, and saw upon the faces of all horror and despair written in glaring characters. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
• For what seemed an eternity the great brute stood with its forepaws upon the sill, glaring into the little room. Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes.
• Their hungry eyes and their lank forms continually suggested one glaring, unsentimental fact--they wanted what they term in California a square meal. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• As he lies in the light before a glaring white target, the black upon him shines again. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• THE VIVID started out, white and glaring, from the black night at laSt.--Here you are! Charlotte Bronte. Villette.

Typed by Doreen