18 collocations for leer

He thus describes his publisher: "With leering looks, bull-faced, and freckled fair, With two left legs, and Judas-colored hair, And frowsy pores that taint the ambient air.

The whole room seemed crowded with a multitude of leering eyes.

One he recognizeda bloated, leering face grinning devilishly at them.

A ghastly, leering cadaver in collar and necktie, dressed up and photographed at the morgue, and now flashed hideously at the prisoner out of the darkness.

"] When with another winter's horror nearing Once more you send along the old, old dove And frame with bloody lips that hide their leering A canticle of love; It has no doubt a most seductive cadence, But we who look for argument by fact We miss conciliation's artful aidance, We note a want of tact.

The same gallantry is conspicuous in the Letters of Lord Chesterfield, beneath whose unctuous courtesy the beast of sensuality is always leering.

His features were large and gaunt, and he had the long, hooked nose, and the sharp-pointed bestial ears of a satyr, with leering eyesbetokening at once sensuality and cunning.

No more shall leering ghosts of pimp and king With bloody secrets veiled before me stand.

"Going to and fro in the earth, walking up and down in it," everywhere peering and listening, smiling and shrugging, here and there dropping a hint, sowing a seed, leering an innuendo; seldom saying, only implying; leaving everywhere trails of slime, yet trails too vague and broken to track him by, secure in his very cowardice.

Love that is burning desire, that quenches all other spark of the spirit, that is boundless; love of a hideously grotesque and deformed sort; love defiled, twisted, misshapen as though Eros had become an ugly, malformed, leering monstrosity.

" Harry Underwood towered above me, his handsome face marred by the little, leering smile he generally wears, his bold, laughing eyes staring down into my horrified ones.

Mr. Pomeroy chimed in, shaking his finger at the tutor with leering solemnity; he, belonging to an older generation at the College, did not know her.

As he passed through the low door of the restaurant a man and woman lurched past him and in their irresolute faces and leering stare he read the verification of his suspicions of the place.

he asked, leering up the table towards Dan.

His eye leered askance, seeming to wish to play around the person of his master, as, it will be seen, his language endeavored to play around his understanding.

Some coarse town humorist would leer upon him from the doorwaya leer of furtive, devilish cunningand whisper hoarsely, "Hist!

Wrung from their veins, returning all too late?); Or in the new delight of rare possession, Forgot the giver; one did sit apart, And shivered on a stone; beneath her rags Nestled two impish, fleshless, leering boys, Grown old before their youth; they cried for bread She chid them down, and hid her face and wept; I had given allI took my cloak, my shoes (What could I else?

Ray leered, his muscles bunching.

18 collocations for  leer