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  • I expected him to smile in response but he glowered at me.
  • But Mawuli glowers at Papa, apparently thinking about how to outwit Papa, not thinking about Mary Catherine. Amaryllis in Blueberry
  • His cousin sat at the kitchen table, glowering.
  • Her father glowered down at her a moment before shifting his hard stare to Robert.
  • Quotables: She is by no means a literary genius …. .her excessive use of the word 'glower' ... Evil Beet Gossip
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  • That's all there is to it, Mr. Paul said as Mr. Santorum glowered back. Romney Spared in Republican Debate
  • He went off in hoots of laughter again, while Mina crossed her arms and glowered at him.
  • At any rate, his skill reminds him of the woman he did not like, and so he 'glowered' as Jo said. Little Women
  • I sat back on my haunches, breathing heavily, and casting what I could only imagine to be the fiercest glower of animosity I'd ever bestowed upon another human being.
  • I glowered at him and felt an impulsive urge to hit him over his egotistical head with a pillow.
  • The sullen-faced Xavier glowered in surly silence, but the malignant, beady eyes of Du Mont regarded the officer keenly. The Gun-Brand
  • Please, young women, smile or simper or smirk or grin, glower or glare, or just mope about if you like, but for the love of God, please put away the duck face.
  • June looks and feels more like February; the iridescent green of the trees and the rampant roses are oddly out of sync with the glowering grey clouds. Times, Sunday Times
  • I called to the glowering teenager sitting on our front steps.
  • The up arrows are illuminated in white for angelic heaven and the down arrows glower red for hellish damnation!
  • Next door to a rose-colored, angel-bedecked church, the boxy school glowers behind barred gates like those that surround prisons.
  • I must have been a frightful sight as I glowered down at her. Arcane Circle
  • It was an intemperate outburst, but even as he stamped out of the room with a dark glower, his inquisitors were breaking into smiles.
  • His touch and tone are wonderful, and on the solo pieces his use of percussive sounds, banging chords, glowering bass figures and scampering uptempo lines make him sound like an innovator.
  • Father had glowered at her — an expression his slablike face seemed designed for — but she ignored him. Sun of Suns
  • It was an intemperate outburst, but even as he stamped out of the room with a dark glower, his inquisitors were breaking into smiles.
  • Next door to a rose-colored, angel-bedecked church, the boxy school glowers behind barred gates like those that surround prisons.
  • J.B. glowered like a spoilt child, for Kagi backed me up, and our discussion was pretty strained until he got his way on another ridiculous point - the establishment of a school in the hills for piccaninnies. THE NUMBERS
  • Behind his head, a grimy window overlooking Somerville's Main Street seemed to glower with derision. MIDDLE AGE: A ROMANCE
  • When not speaking he glowers and sulks, his head moving about the Chamber as he seeks out the source of the next outrage he perceives is being committed upon him. McBlackadder The Dancing Bear
  • But that's no 'what I call cannel, "grumbled Davie, glowering fiercely at the burning coal, as if meditating a fresh attack. Corporal Cameron of the North West Mounted Police; a tale of the Macleod trail
  • He considered her, glowering in the plain, short-sleeved dimity gown Weltrude had allowed her. SOMEDAY MY PRINCE
  • It was an intemperate outburst, but even as he stamped out of the room with a dark glower, his inquisitors were breaking into smiles.
  • A stooping, dispirited Adam and a wistful Eve walk slowly through a lush garden with gravid fruit trees and a profusion of animals, as a flaming red cherub, his sword raised, glowers against a possible return.
  • I glowered at him with angry tears of frustration shining in my eyes before I dropped my gaze and crossed my arms again.
  • The result of this imbalance is to frustrate the natural desire of the human psyche, thereby placing the individual in a perpetual state of angst and glowering fury.
  • Having reverted to man form and put on his pants, Johnny glowered at the invaders. Arcane Circle
  • I followed Mundin into the shed, turning every so often and glowering at Fifi, who trailed behind us.
  • On the Monday after the April Gold Cup, Gypsy Joe surveyed the glowering faces of his two long-term jockeys as they drove into his stable-yard for the morning exercise and training session. The Elvis Latte
  • The torchlight glowered down to the barest hint of light emerging from the brackets.
  • So I was relieved to be welcomed only with a glower, a few quickfire questions, and the request for evidence that I was from the press.
  • I kicked at it and peered up into the branches, meeting her glowing eyes with a glower.
  • Shilts is pictured in slacks and plimsolls "relaxing" in a fringed armchair in front of his massive oak-veneer TV; but even here, cross-legged in the shadow of his own occasional table, he still seems to glower and fret, radiating a dark and unsettling energy of repulsion. Can Joe Hart save himself from the curse of the England keeper? | Barney Ronay
  • So we sit like global sport's great harrumphing, cobwebbed mother-in-law, glowering with assumed entitlement, craving only a sense of triumphant, spoiling vindication. Now England have won the Ashes, it's time to focus on being liked | Barney Ronay
  • Deerhunter blipped onto the blogosphere with its glowering 2007 album "Cryptograms," and the Atlanta band has remained prolific ever since, expertly straddling the line between noisy guitars and warmer pop sensibilities. From Rap to the Rapture
  • It was an intemperate outburst, but even as he stamped out of the room with a dark glower, his inquisitors were breaking into smiles.
  • June looks and feels more like February; the iridescent green of the trees and the rampant roses are oddly out of sync with the glowering grey clouds. Times, Sunday Times
  • A night in a honky-tonk ensues, during which Henry and Carol dance the night away as Wayne glowers and fumes on the sidelines; he's actually jealous of this old guy out there with his young wife.
  • A moment later he emerged, a heavy-set young fellow of eighteen or nineteen, with a glowering, villainous countenance, trailing at his heels. Chapter 3
  • he stared gloweringly at this morning's headlines
  • Her brow furrowed and her scorning frown deepened as she glowered at him angrily.
  • The gecko glowered at Nawin with appetite and fixed interest as if he were an esculent appetize -- the gecko crawling on the railing of the BTS Skytrain station looking down at the small womanly morsels and traffic below and amorous Nawin doing the same but as he glanced up dizzyingly at the facade of the colossal Intercontinental Hotel with its eerie pale-blue light diffused throughout, he felt like he was falling into a deep - blue eternal space. An Apostate: Nawin of Thais
  • ‘We're probably not even going to right way,’ she told him and he gave her a glower.
  • It poured down rain in heavy sheets and now she was angry, glowering and wet.
  • With me at one end of the long table and the red-bearded giant glowering at the other we were a gift for a passing jokester. THE TARTAN RINGERS
  • I stood there, arms akimbo, and glowered at him.
  • Spouting apologies, Hat concentrated on the guests, to blot out Dalziel's threatening glower and Pascoe's reproachful pout. CASCADES - THE DAY OF THE DEAD
  • Pink-faced, he glowered in the corner, champagne in hand. Old man deodorant
  • In his view, "Science and religion do not glower at each other … [but] interdigitate in patterns of complex fingering, and at every fractal scale of self-similarity. Metacentricities
  • Deil a fear," said Meg; "it was auld Sim o 'Glower-ower-'em, the wizened auld hurcheon [hedgehog], that set a big thruch stane ower his first wife; and when he buried his second in the neist grave, he just turned the broad flat stone. The Lilac Sunbonnet
  • He shrugged his shoulders, and Carmintel glowered at him, speechless. The King of the Greeks
  • Shocked, Dubble slipped on a sheaf of papers, screeched and struck his head against one of the cabinets, and when he recovered to his feet he regarded his Commander with a cold, inimical glower.
  • The intimidating old man stood to his full height, which was tall but nowhere close to Grady's two-meter form, and glowered down at the dwarfish Jerwon.
  • He had the face of a fighter, with a crooked nose and glowering blue eyes and a jaw that jutted whenever the situation demanded.
  • I glowered at him, feeling the sharp sensation at having made contact with his cheek so firmly.
  • He'll glower at the fire and he'll keek at the light!
  • My glower became a frown, and I folded my arms, leaning back against the couch.
  • Rather sourly he acknowledged Peter, glowered at Anna, and settled himself at the table for his midday repast. NOBLE BEGINNNINGS
  • Neither of us dared to sleep in the attic room, which hung above our stay like a dark, glowering cloud. Times, Sunday Times
  • Kamaria glowered, still sore at having not noticed Link's talent sooner and angry at Linden for agreeing with him.
  • She regarded the overdressed girl with aversion, answered her mincingly-spoken "How do you do, Marjory?" very curtly, and continued to "glower," as Mrs. Smylie described it, without saying another word. Hunter's Marjory A Story for Girls
  • Then it is the turn of a tall dark girl with a Russian name, who glowers at me and says.
  • The presidency is less an office than a performance: Who saw the gloom and glower behind Eisenhower's incandescent grin?
  • The presidency is less an office than a performance: Who saw the gloom and glower behind Eisenhower's incandescent grin?
  • It may have been oppressive in the weather and the glowering dark skies. Times, Sunday Times
  • Dezra ordered stubbornly, pinching her lips at him and glowering from beneath the big hat.
  • The medic glowered at her for a moment and then glared back at Renny, but he relaxed his arm and finally looked away.
  • Next door to a rose-colored, angel-bedecked church, the boxy school glowers behind barred gates like those that surround prisons.
  • He glowered at the instrument, plugged it in, then picked up the receiver.
  • Setting his hand to the hilt of his sword, he cast the boy the kind of glower intended to help him make the right decision in short order. The Falcons of Montabard
  • Two men down the bar frowned as Grace took her first drink, and she glowered at them until they left the bar for a table on the far side of the room.
  • Now in her rancor they burned dark and purple, glowering as she felt his perusal. THE WOLF AND THE DOVE
  • While the mullah glowered over the camp from the cave mouth or fulminated from the Quran or fought with other mullahs with words for weapons and abuse for argument, he bandaged and lanced and poulticed and physicked until his head swam with weariness. In The Time Of Light
  • Sir Hadrian now glowered at George as if the young man himself had been a willing and eager accomplice in the matter of the Tofts's failed cozenage. Asimov's Science Fiction
  • Hydro and Copo glowered at each other, and emptied out their pockets.
  • Timothy slowly turned a frightening glower on his partner.
  • He glowered at Harmon, and, without greeting to him or Saxon, leaned his shoulder against the wall. CHAPTER XIV
  • When the junior senator from Wyoming brandishes a piece of paper on the Senate floor (where, as a character points out, libel laws do not apply) to proclaim, "I have here in my hand ..." he clearly calls out the glowering ghost of the ­junior senator from Wisconsin. At 50, a D.C. Novel With Legs
  • He saw me twice a day, and glowered and glunched at me, like an old-fashioned minister.
  • Far from sitting on a chair in the corner of a room looking bored and occasionally glowering at small children, Kirsty is to give a series of guided tours and a gallery talk about the public's reaction to the Turner Prize.
  • You can see it in the way the boatmen fret over their dories: spit-polishing microscopic scratches on the hulls, glowering when passengers track dirt onto the decks.
  • He glanced up, meeting the glower of the soldier standing before him, then looked down at his feet, scuffing the dust on the paved road absently with the toe of one of his boots.
  • All around us are towering, glowering peaks rising with perfect irregularity from the flat, green waters of the fjord.
  • But don't leave their favourite childhood teddy glowering out from atop the chest of drawers. Times, Sunday Times
  • Neither of us dared to sleep in the attic room, which hung above our stay like a dark, glowering cloud. Times, Sunday Times
  • In my mind's eye were the dirty yelling faces, the shaken fists, the hail of clods and brickbats that had knocked the Provost's hat off, the Peninsular veteran sergeant bawling to the wavering militia to hold their line, the snarling obscenities as the mob gave back sullenly before the bayonets, your correspondent near to soiling his fine Cherrypicker "breeks" with fear ... and this glowering inquisitor with his rasping voice and peeler's eyes remembered it, too. THE NUMBERS
  • She glowered after him, patting down her tangled hair.
  • His familiar face appeared on the front page of the Brighton Argus, wearing an expression of glowering discomfort.
  • In Apostasia, against a grid of graffiti they glower within black silhouettes that give them a devilish quality.
  • She strode up, sweat from her face and arms dripping as she glowered at us, a looter and a western journalist.
  • I stared at him, tried to give him a hateful glower, but turned the page back anyway.
  • At a quick turn o 'the road they wintled owre; and there they were, sitting on their doups in the atoms o' the gig, and glowering frae them! The House with the Green Shutters
  • I glowered when the new match began and I was immediately put on the defensive.
  • He turned away from her, hiding the glower on his face.
  • Unfortunately her mother saw me staring, and justifiably glowered at me.
  • He could just have been a sore loser who'd met an opponent coldly invulnerable to his glowering mind games.
  • From under his creased brows he glowered with hate at the mockers.
  • Mortimer's face went red and he leaned forward to glower inches from Croft, the reek of his breath gusting in Croft's face.
  • He sat glowering at his opponent.
  • Spouting apologies, Hat concentrated on the guests, to blot out Dalziel's threatening glower and Pascoe's reproachful pout. CASCADES - THE DAY OF THE DEAD
  • She jutted her chin out aggressively as she glowered back at him.
  • After her brief moment of shy nervousness, she began to feel a sharp indignation flaring up, and she shot a glower up at him.
  • While she turned the wide pages, painfully bewildered, the old man "glowered" at her. A Crooked Path A Novel
  • Caroline glowered at the man before returning her attention to the two men.
  • A faint smirk pulls at the corners of Alonzo's pale lips, but noticing it, he immediately replaces the smirk with yet another angry glower.
  • Beside me Mac stared at the two glowering figures in confusion.
  • Del glowered at each and every board member, saying with his scowl that he would not soon forget this, but it was a classic case of reaping what you sow. Parents Behaving Badly
  • Every time he was given out he gesticulated, frowned, glowered and stared at the umpires.
  • The other half quaked, disturbed by the glowering lines of his face, the reproachful glare of his obsidian eyes.
  • It sat glowering at me, upset because half an hour earlier, I had confiscated a small marsupial it had brought in - something between a rat and a bandicoot.
  • -- Weel, whether it was 'at their herts was ower muckle wrappit up i' this ae human cratur for the growth o 'their sowls, I dinna ken -- there bude to be some rizzon for't -- this last ane o' a 'begud in his turn to dwine an' dwin'le like the lave; an 'whaurever thae twa puir fowk turnt themsel's i' their pangs, there stude deith, glowerin 'at them oot o' his toom e'en. Warlock o' Glenwarlock
  • Mayhap thou didst sleep over-sound last night when I called by the river bank," he began, glowering darkly. THE MARRIAGE TO LIT-LIT
  • The manager glowered at us and stalked off back to his office. The sacked bloke was reinstated and all six of us passed.
  • Once she had successfully entered and gone inside the hotel, Auntie Kim glowered at the trio.
  • I stopped and stared at him with a feline glower.
  • Instead of clamming up or glowering, he sighs and admits he behaved stupidly. Times, Sunday Times
  • The White House major-domo glowered as the elderly black waitress wept quietly while serving. The Cobra by Frederick Forsyth
  • The sullen-faced Xavier glowered in surly silence, but the malignant, beady eyes of Du Mont regarded the officer keenly. The Gun-Brand
  • He threw the paper down on his desk and glowered at me accusingly: Well?
  • He glowered at her, not liking the change in their ritual.
  • She had what could only be described as a glower on her face.
  • On television his glowering and beard-stroking would become monotonous, and wooing the Jewish vote would present a definite obstacle. Why Anthony Eden Never Wore a Coonskin Cap: James Wolcott
  • The expression could best be described as a glower. SERPENT
  • The carriage passed through a dark forest with tall, frozen, sinister trees that seemed to glower and claw downward at them.
  • He walked alone, grim-faced, hair awry and eyes glowering.
  • Learning that his quarry had given him a slip a glowering devil seemed to rage within the king's heart, raising dark and savage gall.
  • Lucia's indifference melted into a cautious glower, but Sondra only smiled and held up her hands in forfeit.
  • And yes, in spite of their glowering looks and fierce demeanor, owls can be endearing.
  • Looking somewhat hurt, she flashed him a glowering gaze and shot off down the hall, almost to her bedroom door when the phone rang.
  • So is a fierce, hostile glower or a series of frightened, bewildered glances.
  • And less glowering Russian boyars hovering in the background. Watch John Wayne in The Quiet Man: live!
  • His face wore a sullen glower; he had not been best pleased at having to be the bannerman. The Fires of Heaven
  • Franz-Josef glowered at the doctor and said it would be unwise to move me, surely, and the poultice-walloper agreed that it would be nothing short of bloody reckless. Watershed
  • Both albums relish shimmering percussion tracks and blindingly reflective surface washes, whereas others in the alliance fuzz everything out in a glowering haze.
  • But don't leave their favourite childhood teddy glowering out from atop the chest of drawers. Times, Sunday Times
  • Under that plump moon and the glowering gaze of the Matterhorn, we understood why the Swiss feel an almost mystical sense of oneness with the pile of rock.
  • A tremendous amount of glowering, eye-rolling and hamming it up went into silent-film acting, making it near impossible for modern viewers to comprehend the impact Valentino made at the time.
  • Her neatly shaped face boasted high cheekbones and a pert pug nose, beneath which a firm pink mouth was drawn into a seductive glower.
  • The woman in the robes smiled at him blankly, while the couple only greeted him with a somber glower.
  • Cobbled streets weave past baroque palaces, lively beer halls, glowering castles, and light - infused cathedrals.
  • You can see it in the way the boatmen fret over their dories: spit-polishing microscopic scratches on the hulls, glowering when passengers track dirt onto the decks.
  • I cycled off, leaving him to glower after me like a petulant teenager.
  • Aaron tensed up when Giovanni gave him an almighty glower.
  • A moment — and the darkness would reign in her as before; her eyes glower, her fingers feel out graspingly-how much? she would say. The Growth of the Soil
  • Virginia looked around at all of the faces staring back at her, some thunderstruck, others glowering.
  • In my mind's eye were the dirty yelling faces, the shaken fists, the hail of clods and brickbats that had knocked the Provost's hat off, the Peninsular veteran sergeant bawling to the wavering militia to hold their line, the snarling obscenities as the mob gave back sullenly before the bayonets, your correspondent near to soiling his fine Cherrypicker "breeks" with fear … and this glowering inquisitor with his rasping voice and peeler's eyes remembered it, too. Flashman and the angel of the lord
  • Salton's glowering daystar rose behind her shoulder, a fire upon the land obliterating shadow and coolth. Asimov's Science Fiction
  • Rather sourly he acknowledged Peter, glowered at Anna, and settled himself at the table for his midday repast. NOBLE BEGINNNINGS
  • Even so, he stayed in the room, glowering and suspicious, making sure that the examination was kept within certain limits.
  • Someone dared to broach the subject of seasickness at the breakfast table, and a few pasty faces glowered at the culprit.
  • Her stern face glowers down on them from buses, billboards and magazine advertisements.
  • The girl glowered up at Kiannon as if he were the Un-Goddess herself - drew back her head in a sharp, dismissive gesture, and spat at him.
  • He glowered and brushed wispy tendrils of white hair from his face.
  • The stockkeeper -- George Powell was his name -- had got into the dairy, as I thought, to lick the cream, for he was an awful hand on it; but he kept hanging about, and glowering at the milk-pans, and then looking at me, till at last he said some nonsense, and I told him to be off with his daffing; I would tell the master if he said an uncivil word. Mr. Hogarth's Will
  • While the mullah glowered over the camp from the cave mouth or fulminated from the Quran or fought with other mullahs with words for weapons and abuse for argument, he bandaged and lanced and poulticed and physicked until his head swam with weariness. In The Time Of Light
  • She prowled among the desks and glowered at the action boards as if they were a bunch of football hooligans.
  • They were very very simple cardboard characters who mostly just have to glower, smoulder and say witty lines quietly.
  • Although I was being importuned with an obstinate request for alms, I nonetheless summoned enough courage to give him a glowering look in an attempt to scare him away.
  • This he indignantly denied, saying that he "had never buried a babe even in most tempestuous weather," when he rode several miles, but he always wore a band, and he complained in turn that members of his congregation turned away from him on the street, and "glowered" at him and "sneered at him. Sabbath in Puritan New England
  • There was a pause as they glowered at each other, then Ellie shook her head.
  • I glowered, having a strong urge to turn away from him, but I knew that he intended well.
  • When she got to the car, she smiled a good morning at Neil and gave Clayton a glower.
  • Dimitri shot him a scathing glower, though it gained him nothing.
  • Deirdre's eyes were set in a determined glower, David's teeth gritted in effort.
  • Nearby, a team of glowering, mustachioed Hungarians in camo pants and combat boots was having a disastrous morning, shattering a stack of plates before the meal service even began and struggling to get a complicated vegetable-and-cod appetizer cooked all the way through. Food Fight
  • The teacher pierced him with a glower, so he stuck his hands behind his back again and strolled away from the students, developing a sudden interest in the back of the room.
  • See, he wears a leather trews and a trenchcoat and glowers meaningfully!
  • Under that plump moon and the glowering gaze of the Matterhorn, we understood why the Swiss feel an almost mystical sense of oneness with the pile of rock.
  • Asera glowered sternward; Meder closed his case of implements and materials. Lord of the Isles
  • Gilly glowered soggily at him from behind the overflowing basin, wielding a large sponge and a rather nasty-looking scrub brush.

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