304 examples of leering in sentences

How many pictures of one nymph we view, All how unlike each other, all how true! Arcadia's countess, here in ermined pride, Is there Pastora by a fountain side; Here Fannia, leering on her own good man, And there, a naked Leda with a swan.

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.

With that insignificant little grey man in his cheap wrinkled clothes to officiate; with that unshaven, leering, dirty man to witness!

"II think" She saw Steve Jarrold leering.

But when he comes leering at Anatole through skylights, just after I had with infinite pains and tact induced him to withdraw his notice, and makes him so temperamental that he won't hear of staying on after tomorrow" The paste stuff gave way.

He stood leering at me to see if I would drink it.

He stood still, leering foolishly on us, just in our way; I could not bear to look at him, and would have slipt on one side; but Althea looked sternly at him, and said bitterly, 'Shame on you, Ralph Lacy!

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.

then leering in my face, flourishing with his headO Christ! now-and-then cried the rascal What joy has this dog in mischief!More than I can have in the completion of my most favourite purposes!These fellows are ever happier than their masters.

On whom Fryar Jhon casts many a leering eye: I have observd that too.

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?

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.

"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.

I returned in about half an hour to pay my bill, when I could observe one or two of those doughty politicians who remained, leering at me most significantly.

He was not a man to feel remorsenever a common feeling; but surely that murderer was in a living hell, as, with fever and famine leering at him from the shadows, he made his way through the empty desolation of the wilderness.

I daresay she saw herself taking the leering, distorted thing in hand and making something gallant of it.

'They came this way out of Calne,' Sir George retorted, singling the speaker out, and signing to the people to make way that he might get at him. 'Ay, but they nevercame to Chipnam,' the fellow answered, leering at him with drunken wisdom.

"And what stake shall we play for?" asked Feodor, as he cast a look of ill-concealed contempt on his young companions, who so little understood the art of drinking the cup of pleasure with decency, and rolled about on their seats with lolling tongues and leering eyes.

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

A feeling of hope and repose stole over him;when suddenly he saw at the door, which was ajar, the leering eyes and villainously cunning countenance of Billy.

By the light of smoking oil-lamps people were selling flowers and shrubswicked little dwarf pines, stunted peach and plum trees, wisteria bushes clipped and twisted out of all likeness to wholesome plants, leaning and leering out of green-glaze pots.

he asked, leering at me.

Johan was still found at the foot of the lane, smoking and bragging and leering as before.

This leaves 'Nri and 'Seph, who through physical or mental shortcomings are denied the proud privilege, and shamble about in the muck and mud of the farm, leering or grumbling, while Madame exhorts them to further activity from the kitchen door.

I said to myself one day, when, over a cup of coffee, I caught sight of her small, piggy eyes leering at me with an unmistakable expression of admiration.

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