cross-looking

Swimming ponderously in the pen was a large and extremely cross-looking tortoise.

Orange Blossom was a cross-looking Princess of seventy-five, at least.

Nor was he the usual class of wayfarer, but a small, shabby, cross-looking individual with the air of a townie.

Nuria appeared instead, as dried-up and cross-looking as ever, and led him to the library.

In this one the star clutched a dissipated black cat and a cross-looking black rooster with a red comb.

I extracted a crumpled and cross-looking Riona and sat her in the window embrasure, looking out over the forest.

He stepped aside, then, with a nod to whomever stood beside him, and a small, round, cross-looking gentleman in a rumpled suit peered in.

A cross-looking Poke held up his arm threateningly, and Dorothy and the Cowardly Lion stopped.

He posted a picture of her cross-looking pet, whose real name is Tardar Sauce, on the online news and picture sharing website, Reddit.

Instead there was a strange captain, a scraggly, cross-looking person, staring at a little book and not watching the people who came on board, the way Captain Lewis does.

One of the assistants was a cross-looking woman who wore a woollen shawl and kept putting on her pince-nez and taking it off, apparently in accordance with mood rather than need.

"Bibi Lalouette," a small etching by Whistler of a cross-looking little French girl, disappoints, and Cassatt's "Map" is, ho hum, another Cassatt.

This week, I have watched a perfectly fluid border-crossing turn into a five-hour traffic jam, with one arbitrary click of the fingers from a cross-looking man in a comedy moustache and green Guardia Civil uniform.

"One day, a cross-looking woman peered through the chain-link fence at Van Cortlandt Park, in the Bronx, at the circus horses eating their afternoon hay, in their shady stalls under the horse tent," she writes.

Madame Grimaud, short and trim with a well-managed waist, solid hips and strictly upswept smooth black hair, stood on the doorstep with two cross-looking and awkward teenage daughters, to whom Frederica was to be required to converse.

The door was opened by a cross-looking woman who stared at her without speaking but when Cressida uttered her mistress's name she stood back while Cressida, lugging her suitcases, went into the hall, then she walked away to disappear through a door on one side of the hall.

Filmed, it sometimes seemed, in the dark, with a wonderfully forceful title sequence in which a cross-looking Russian doll was taken apart to reveal an ever more furious one beneath, it starred Alec Guinness as the dyspeptic George Smiley, lurking behind sweetie-jar lenses and a nightmarish smile.

In fact, nothing could be more of its disaffected time than his portrait of the blond, cross-looking Otto Dix (who could be a forebear of Robert Rauschenberg) or, for that matter, the companion study of the painter's dark-haired wife, who is as plump as he is lean.

Many people glanced at him with great distaste, thereafter, when they chanced to encounter him, which meant nothing to Georgie, because he innocently believed most grown people to be necessarily cross-looking as a normal phenomenon resulting from the adult state; and he failed to comprehend that the distasteful glances had any personal bearing upon himself.