At this moment Quirk entered the store; and as Arthur looked up, he caught the leer of significant meaning, sent from a quick wink of the eye, and a momentary elongation of the visage, of his late companion.
A sort of dubious leer was its predominant expression, heightened ever and anon by a broad laugh, the eldritch shout of which first announced itself to the ear of the pilgrim.
I examined it again and again, but not a single corner betrayed symptoms of lesion: it stuck bolt upright; and the dun squat figures portrayed on it appeared to leer at me most provokingly.
There was one especially whom she abominated worse than the others, a bandy-legged ruffian, who regarded her with a leer that caused her an almost physical nausea.
Would it could have been to- night," added Marat, whilst a demoniacal leer contorted his face which already exuded lust for blood from every pore.
He said this with such exaggerated politeness, and with such a cunning leer in his eyes, that his tone and manner were most grotesque; and as he concluded he took up the large Bible with ridiculous solemnity.
Sir Lionel then smiled as before, and chuckled to himself, while a leer of cunning triumph flashed for a moment from his wandering eyes.
There was a certain knowing look--a leer of triumphant cunning--combined with a tendency to chuckle over some secret purpose which no one else knew.
The one woman was certainly enough, and his rage was increased by the leer that accompanied the question.
With an evil leer Johann looked up at this, breaking his silence.
Later in the day he was to be reminded not only of them but of the evil leer bestowed by Johann at the munificent tip dropped into his horny palm.
Polteed would not know, at first at all events, whose wife she was, would not look at him obsequiously and leer behind his back.
Leer is one of the principal ports for steamboat communication with the North Sea watering-places of Borkum and Norderney.
Leer is a very old place, although it only obtained municipal privileges in 1823.
He looked to right, to left and all about him, eyed with disfavour the dirty woman so close to him, who stood crookedly, with an evil leer to one eye; frowned and walked away to the platform from which the train starts for Luxor.
Walpole has his leer and his sneer at its expense (literally).
The elder, pursued to the end by the malevolent slanders of the man with the leer of the satyr perpetually on his face, died of consumption after eight years of wedded life.
It attracted the attention of Harold's father, who commented upon it with a leerand a sneer.
I have been keeping my eyes open and my ears open as well, during the past ten days," said Lord Fotheringay, with a leer that was meant to be significant.
An evil leer on his face, he swaggered up and down the street, his hands thrust deep into his pockets.
The triumphant leer on his face was reflected in the several expressions of the other men.
Pray," said I, as the two odious casts with the twitchy leer upon them caught my sight again, "whose likenesses are those?
I thought I saw him leer in an ugly way at me while the decanters were going round, but as there was no love lost between us, that might easily be.
Indeed, as Ned watched his confident leer as he recovered from what the boy had expected to be a crushing overthrow, there was an expression on the fellow's crafty face that struck a chill that was almost one of dread into Ned's heart.
There was a furious leeron the face of the Master of Burials.
With a leer the fellow stooped, and, taking up the fish, put them in the pockets of his queminzolle, all slimy from the sea as they were.
The apprentice seemed not to hear, but kept on looking after Guida, a pitiless leer on his face.
Mr. Hornyold retorted, with something between a leer and a wink.
The strange Oriental faces which seemed to leer at her from street and curb seemed to be almost of another world, and she thought of the many tales she had heard, of their treachery and cunning.
There was an ugly, vindictive leer on Smithers' face which Garrett never liked and which in his better moments he detested.
With a look unpleasant enough to be considered a leer on his face he walked away, but Shealey's innuendo, as we shall see later, had more significance for the one to whom it was directed than the rest of the group realized.
It presented the cadaverous aspect of the grave, lit up into the repulsive and unnatural animation that resulted from intoxication, and the feeble expiring leer of a worse passion.
Yes," was the cautious reply, given, however, with a leer he found not altogether pleasant.
An etching, Hypocrisy, with its faint leer on the lips of a woman, is a little masterpiece.
With a leer and a funny grimace at the crowd he began his doggerel speech.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "leer" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
