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Smile in sentence

1661 examples of Smile in a sentence

The Cardinal showed his approval by a delicate smile.
'What a vast stride I have made,' thought Julien, with a melancholy smile, 'and how cold it leaves me!
'But don't you see,' Julien said to him with a smile, 'that I am making myself out as guilty as you can wish?
Explain this to me in simple terms before I leave you, I wish to see clearly into my own heart; for in two months we must part ...For that matter, need we part?' she said, with a smile.
Heaven preserve me from exaggeration.''To speak so is to command me,' she said with a timid and melancholy smile.
In religion ...Yes,' he added with a bitter smile of the most intense scorn, 'in the mouths of the Maslons, the Frilairs, the Castanedes ...Perhaps in true Christianity, whose priests would be no more paid than were the Apostles?
K. remained standing quite close to him and said with a smile, "You're quite right, I am impatient, but the easiest way to settle this impatience would be if you left us.
"Is there nothing else you do?" asked K. with a smile.
In the meantime, the man whom K. had first approached had pulled himself together and even answered him with a smile.
"Of course it is," said K.'s uncle, who then asked K., "So what is it you want?""Yes, but how is it that you know anything about me and my case?" asked K."Oh, I see," said the lawyer with a smile.
- Office director ... , " he said with his head on one side, pointing with a humble smile to an armchair near the bed.
"Oh!" she exclaimed with a smile, thus making use of K.'s comment to gain an advantage over him.
"That is certainly conceivable," said K. with a smile, "but she does have one major advantage over you, she knows nothing about my trial, and even if she did she wouldn't think about it.
K. still had enough control of himself to turn away from the deputy director and direct his friendly, albeit stiff, smile only at the manufacturer, he made no other retaliation, bent down slightly and supported himself with both hands on his desk like a clerk, and watched as the two gentlemen, still talking, took the papers from his desk and disappeared into the manager's office.
She did not smile once, but looked at K. earnestly, with sharp, acquisitive eyes.
"That is not a good combination," said K. with a smile.
The painter immediately put his crayons down, stood upright, rubbed his hands together and looked at K. with a smile.
"How's that?" asked the painter patiently, leaning back with a smile.
This smile made K. feel as if he were examining not the words of the painter but seeking out inconsistencies in the procedures of the court itself.
"You look honest enough," said K. with a smile, "but come along anyway."
"Nor do I, actually," said K., looking at the businessman with a smile.
Now, I don't mean to criticise the lawyer's work with all of this, and the document I read was only one of many, but even so, and this is something I will say, at that time I couldn't see any progress in my trial at all.""And what sort of progress had you been hoping for?" asked K."That's a very sensible question," said the businessman with a smile, "it's only very rare that you see any progress in these proceedings at all.
The director gave him a friendly smile, he was clearly very glad that K. was there, he immediately introduced him to the Italian who shook K.'s hand vigorously and joked that somebody was an early riser.
With a smile, K. followed the old man all the way up the side nave and almost as far as the main altar, all this time the old man continued to point at something but K. deliberately avoided looking round, he was only pointing in order to make it harder for K. to follow him.
On Saturday, you are able to swallow a little beef tea, and to sit up on deck, and answer with a wan, sweet smile when kind-hearted people ask you how you feel now.
A pleasant odour of onions and hot ham, mingled with fried fish and greens, greeted him at the bottom of the ladder; and then the steward came up with an oily smile, and said:"What can I get you, sir?""Get me out of this," was the feeble reply.
Having thus settled the sleeping arrangements to the satisfaction of all four of us, the only thing left to discuss was what we should take with us; and this we had begun to argue, when Harris said he'd had enough oratory for one night, and proposed that we should go out and have a smile, saying that he had found a place, round by the square, where you could really get a drop of Irish worth drinking.
One crusty old gentleman objected, but I got in, notwithstanding; and, putting my cheeses upon the rack, squeezed down with a pleasant smile, and said it was a warm day.
I answered that I thought he would never smile again.
He greets them with a smile and laugh, and pleasant honeyed words, as though it were some feast in his honour to which he had been invited.
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