904 examples of scowls in sentences

"It was tremendous, mon ami," roared Froissart, unchecked by Dawson's scowls.

She was fed up with the leers of Papa Dupont, the scowls of Mama Thérèse, the grimaces of waiters, the stares of customers, the very sight of herself in the mirror across the room.

He scowls at me because I tell the truth about him, but if I had a bottle of whisky to offer him he would soon look pleasant again, and would give me a drink too, when he had swallowed all he could hold.

"And 'elp you spend that money," said Mr. Brown, ignoring the scowls of his friend.

Rich with green canes, they contrast strongly with the brown ragged cliffs right and left of them, and still more with the awful depths beyond and above, where, underneath a canopy of bright white clouds, scowls a purple darkness of cliffs and glens, among which lies, unseen, the Souffriere.

" O'er the dread feast malignant Chemia scowls, And mingles poison in the nectar'd bowls; 365 Fell Gout peeps grinning through the flimsy scene, And bloated Dropsy pants behind unseen; Wrapp'd in his robe white Lepra hides his stains, And silent Frenzy writhing bites his chains.

the lowring element scowls o'er the darkened landscip

Scowls greeted her passengers when it was discovered that they were not English but Americans.

On entering the council-house, Kenton perceived from the ominous scowls of the chiefs, that they meant no tenderness toward him.

He was willing to give Mr. Thomas work, and put tools in his hands, and while watching how deftly he handled them, he did not notice the indignant scowls on the faces of his workmen, and their murmurs of disapprobation as they uttered their dissatisfaction one to the other.

"I didn't expect to 'ave the pleasure o' seeing you 'ere, my lad," ses Jack, still staring at Charlie, and twisting 'is face up into awful scowls.

But, if the blithe Muse will indulge a smile, Why scowls thy brow, O Bookseller!

The fact that a man always smiles on his customers, proves that he never scowls at those who dun him!

Evidently, she feared the scowls of Butscher, who had none of the white's ideas of the equality of females with males at the board.

And yet the harsh world scowls upon us: our nerves are broken, and they wonder we are querulous; our blood curdles, and they ask why we are not gay; our brain grows dizzy and indistinct (as with me just now), and, shrugging their shoulders, they whisper their neighbours that we are mad.

This savage, no doubt, does not understand a word of English, for he scowls at me and orders me away again with a menacing cry.

He may doubt the justice of the praise or the censure of the professional critic; but it is hard for him to resist the fact of failure, when it comes to him palpably in the satire that scowls in an ominous stare and the irony that lurks in an audible yawn,hard for him to question the reality of triumph, when teeth flash at every gleam of his wit and eyes moisten at every touch of his sentiment.

"But if only one creature or thing acts, more than one action may, at the same instant, be done; as, 'The girl not only holds her pen badly, but scowls and distorts her features, while she writes.'"Id.

But, if the blithe muse will indulge a smile, Why scowls thy brow, O Bookseller!

Menacing the one who slew him Scowls the brow's relentless feud, By his noble life blood crimsoned O'er his lips his hair is glued.

The scowls were for God, and with every chew he reiterated the sole thought of his existence, which was make westing.

So he walked softly before God, smothering his joy down under scowls and muttered curses, and, so, fooling God, for God was the only thing in the universe of which Dan Cullen was afraid.

In spite of the scowls and winks bestowed upon me by Mr. Sewell, who let slip no opportunity to testify his disapprobation of the intimacy, Mr. Jaffrey and I spent all our evenings togetherthose long autumnal evenings, through the length of which he talked about the boy, laying out his path in life and hedging the path with roses.

Orazio seats himself at a distance, and scowls at Prince Ruspoli.

While they listened to him they saw only ugly scowls upon the rum-soaked visages of the other inmates of the place, who had crowded around and seemed to greatly enjoy their misfortune, and who broke into shouts of boisterous laughter when the manager explained to the boys that the golden rule of the "Golden Rule Hotel" had always read: "Do everybodybefore they do you.

904 examples of  scowls  in sentences