Melvin Waller peered disapprovingly at Phoebe as she sat stiffly on the other side of the desk.

As a boy Fat Charlie had imagined Mrs. Dunwiddy in Equatorial Africa, peering disapprovingly though her thick spectacles at the newly erect hominids.

Kermit-like, he was peering disapprovingly at the massed ranks of his political opponents, a stare that was returned, by those who caught his eye, with surprise tinged with disapproval.

At seeing the girl engaged in conversation with a strange woman, she scowled and brought her lorgnette up to her eyes to peer disapprovingly at Marianne.

He adjusted his spectacles and peered disapprovingly at the bronze plaque screwed to his pedestal.

Granny peered disapprovingly at ten thousand miles of landscape.

Seeing no broad black face, turbaned in snowy white, peering disapprovingly from between fluttering curtains, she boldly snatched up her green flowered skirts and sped down the path toward the driveway as fast as her small ribbon-laced slippers would carry her.

She glanced at Granada who was peering disapprovingly at Brim as if he were 138 I BILL BALDWIN some sort of panhandler.

Ms. Long said many people still long for the old-style library, where the librarian wore her hair in a bun and peered disapprovingly over her spectacles at the slightest rustling of papers.

So they landed on the beach with Monarth peering rather disapprovingly at the little cove while the water lapped gently on his feet Her group arrived, carolling in wild delight at coming home.