"Glower" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... have been folded for a moment. Justice would have overtaken her with its late reward; for that she had begged for her children, maybe stolen for them, but always managed for them some way. A moment—and the darkness would reign in her as before; her eyes glower, her fingers feel out graspingly—how much? she would say. What, no more? she would say. She would be right again. A mother many times, realizing life—it was worthy ...
— Growth of the Soil • Knut Hamsun
... Auld Toon the noo—a place I never speak in; an' if they did na glower at me as I ...
— Christie Johnstone • Charles Reade
... jokes as they're cleckit, And haver and glower in her face, When tocherless mays are negleckit,— A crying and ...
— Library Of The World's Best Literature, Ancient And Modern, Vol 3 • Various
... shouldering her shoulder or contracting ready to grip her wrist. Against violence she doubted her strength, was filled with a desolating sense of yielding nerve and domitable muscle. But just short of violence Sir Isaac's spirit failed him. He would glower and bluster, half threaten, and retreat. It might come to that at last but at present it had not ...
— The Wife of Sir Isaac Harman • H. G. (Herbert George) Wells
... glower along the corridors of the Millard. I pitied him for his defeat too much to notice his attempts to pick a quarrel. Firm in the affection of my Saccharissa and in the confidence of her father, I waived the insults of the aggrieved ...
— Atlantic Monthly, Volume 8, No. 47, September, 1861 • Various
... ejaculated the choking Mr. Walters, as he bestowed an involuntary glower at the limbs ...
— Salthaven • W. W. Jacobs
... and a stalwart ghaist is he, Despair sits broodin' aboon his e'e-bree, And unchancie to light o' a maiden's e'e, Is the glower ...
— Spare Hours • John Brown
... very strong-minded woman, who had to go through a little graveyard with moonlight making the tombstones glower out from deep shadows of cedar trees, in the depths of which strange birds croak, while the wind rustles the dry leaves into piles as they fall, wouldn't feel like honorably proposing to the man she intended to marry, even if she was scrouged so close to his arm that it was difficult ...
— The Tinder-Box • Maria Thompson Daviess
... dimsighted &c n.; see double; have a mote in the eye, have a mist before the eyes, have a film over the eyes; see through a prism, see through a glass darkly; wink, blink, nictitate; squint; look askant^, askant askance^; screw up the eyes, glare, glower; nictate^. dazzle, loom. Adj. dim-sighted &c n.; myopic, presbyopic^; astigmatic, moon-eyed, mope-eyed, blear-eyed, goggle-eyed, gooseberry-eyed, one-eyed; blind of one eye, monoculous^; half-blind, purblind; cock-eyed, dim-eyed, ...
— Roget's Thesaurus of English Words and Phrases: Body • Roget
... wrongs. I have them noted down severally as they occurred! I need but read to rage! What do I talk?—Read?—Can I forget them? No; night nor day! They are my familiars. They wake with me, sleep with me, walk with me, ride with me, glower with me, curse with me—but never smile with me. They are become my dearest intimates. I cherish and hug them to my heart! Their biting is ...
— Anna St. Ives • Thomas Holcroft
... amid the cafe's cheer, Sad of heart am I to-night; Dolefully I drink my beer, But no single line I write. There's the wretched rent to pay, Yet I glower at pen and ink: Oh, inspire me, Muse, I pray, It is later than ...
— Ballads of a Bohemian • Robert W. Service
... dissertation on German perfidy another hour after that. By that time it was late and Albert went home. The second call was even worse, for Ed Raymond called also and the two young men glowered at each other until ten o'clock. They might have continued to glower indefinitely, for neither meant to leave before the other, but Helen announced that she had some home-study papers to look over and she knew they would excuse her under the circumstances. On that hint they departed ...
— The Portygee • Joseph Crosby Lincoln
... to glower. Then, turning away, he said, without meeting his employer's eyes, "I would like ...
— Heart of the Sunset • Rex Beach
... parlour burn the blyther for that. Ye have riven the back off seven cottar houses—look if your ain roof-tree stand the faster. Ye may stable your stirks in the shealings at Derncleugh—see that the hare does not couch on the hearth-stone at Ellangowan.—Ride your ways, Godfrey Bertram—what do ye glower after our folk for?—There's thirty hearts there, that wad hae wanted bread ere ye had wanted sunkets, [*Delicacies] and spent their lifeblood ere ye had scratched your finger. Yes—there's thirty yonder, from the auld wife of a hundred to ...
— Guy Mannering • Sir Walter Scott
... however, he exposed to great cares and fatigues, attained the advanced age of one hundred and twenty; and the warlike and ever-active Joshua lived to one hundred and ten. Lejoucourt gives the following striking parallels: John Glower lived to one hundred and seventy-two, and Abraham to one hundred and seventy-five; Susan, the wife of Gower, lived to one hundred and sixty-four, and Sarah, the wife of Abraham, to one hundred and twenty-seven. The eldest ...
— Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine • George M. Gould
... I'se peart. Hab to be spry to arn a libin' in dese yer times, but I can do it fum dem dat's fren'ly and not fum dem dat glower at me." ...
— The Earth Trembled • E.P. Roe |
