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Smile in sentence

1661 examples of Smile in a sentence

As a rule two women were seated behind the counter: the young woman with the grave profile, and an old lady who sat dozing with a smile on her countenance.
"Here is a child," said he with a smile, "and you are her aunt.
Therese served the people with words that were ever the same, with a smile that appeared mechanically on her lisp.
With a peaceful smile on his lips, he replied to the questions addressed to him in a clear voice, casting calm and easy glances around him.
This penetrating glance troubled the young woman, who, nevertheless, gave a forced smile, and after exchanging a few words with Laurent and her husband, hurried away to join her aunt, feeling ill at ease.
"Faith, no," answered his friend with a smile.
"So," said he, "there were lady models who posed before you in the nude?""Oh! yes," answered Laurent with a smile, and looking at Therese, who had turned deadly pale.
Laurent looked from Therese to Camille, and the former painter restrained a smile.
Laurent at times turned round, with a smile, inquiring whether the portrait pleased her.
Among them were comical companions of the workshops who elicited a smile from the onlookers by making witty remarks about the faces of each corpse.
Therese looked around her, giving a strange smile as she measured her great bed with her eyes.
She raised her head inquisitively, gazing at the young husband and wife with a smile.
One circumstance, which would have brought a smile to the lips of anyone else, made him completely lose his head.
Madame Raquin, who had become even more feeble and could barely get down to the shop, watched him eating with a maternal smile.
She loved to see her at her side, smiling with her faint smile, more dead than alive, and bringing into the shop the stuffy odour of the cemetery.
When he jested about their fatigued looks, Laurent and Therese barely turned pale, and even succeeded in forcing on a smile.
Since her twisted and inert lips could no longer smile, she smiled with adorable tenderness, by her looks; moist beams and rays of dawn issued from her orbits.
Sometimes she caught herself paying attention to nonsense that brought a bitter smile to her face.
When she returned in the evening, worn out, her eyelids heavy with exhaustion, it was to find the little wife of Olivier still behind the counter, bowed down, with a vague smile on her lips, in the same attitude as she had left her five hours previously.
He gave her a peculiar smile, and continued:"Come, reflect, let me have your last word."
To this the student, bachelor, or, as Don Quixote called him, licentiate, replied, "I have nothing whatever to say further, but that from the moment Basilio learned that the fair Quiteria was to be married to Camacho the rich, he has never been seen to smile, or heard to utter rational word, and he always goes about moody and dejected, talking to himself in a way that shows plainly he is out of his senses.
'Lor, brother!' said Miss Wardle, with a deprecating smile.
'What a sarcastic smile,' said the admiring Rachael; 'I declare I'm quite afraid of you.''Afraid of me!''Oh, you can't disguise anything from me--I know what that smile means very well.''What?' said Mr. Tupman, who had not the slightest notion himself.
The tear which starts unbidden to the eye when the recollection of old times and the happiness of many years ago is suddenly recalled, stole down the old lady's face as she shook her head with a melancholy smile.
He thought how often he had run merrily down that path with some childish playfellow, looking back, ever and again, to catch his mother's smile, or hear her gentle voice; and then a veil seemed lifted from his memory, and words of kindness unrequited, and warnings despised, and promises broken, thronged upon his recollection till his heart failed him, and he could bear it no longer.
Mr. Winkle responded with a forced smile, and took up the spare gun with an expression of countenance which a metaphysical rook, impressed with a foreboding of his approaching death by violence, may be supposed to assume.
There was a smile upon the youth's face as he advanced.
'Well; and how came you here?' said Mr. Pickwick, with a smile in which benevolence struggled with surprise.
He roared out scoundrels and villains by the dozen, clenched his fist and shook it expressively at the object of his indignation; but Mr. Jingle only answered with a contemptuous smile, and replied to his menaces by a shout of triumph, as his horses, answering the increased application of whip and spur, broke into a faster gallop, and left the pursuers behind.
I was rich; and when I married the girl, I saw a smile of triumph play upon the faces of her needy relatives, as they thought of their well-planned scheme, and their fine prize.
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