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Smile in sentence

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It was for me to smile.
To smile!
Her face was calm and placid; and even as I looked upon it, a tranquil smile lighted up her pale features.
You'll do very well there, won't you--dear?''Certainly--love,' replied the unhappy Pott, with a grim smile.
She drew her arm coaxingly through the old man's, and whispered something in his ear; and do what he would, old Lobbs couldn't help breaking out into a smile, while a tear stole down his cheek at the same time.
'I, too, have had something of an adventure,' said Mr. Winkle, with a smile; and, at the request of Mr. Pickwick, he detailed the malicious libel of the Eatanswill INDEPENDENT, and the consequent excitement of their friend, the editor.
Ridiculous--ridiculous.''Of her heart,' said Wardle, with a smile, 'you should certainly be the best judge.
It was in vain for Mr. Tupman to protest, with a smile of self- denial, that he never had.
The very smile was taken as evidence to the contrary; and from that time forth his reputation was established.
Here Mr. Weller winked the eye which was not concealed by the beer-can he was raising to his lips, with such exquisite facetiousness, that the two boys went into spontaneous convulsions, and even the long man condescended to smile.
'I will, by--' But as there was a humorous expression in Wardle's face, Mr. Pickwick checked himself, and said, 'Why not?''Because,' said old Wardle, half-bursting with laughter, 'because they might turn on some of us, and say we had taken too much cold punch.'Do what he would, a smile would come into Mr. Pickwick's face; the smile extended into a laugh; the laugh into a roar; the roar became general.
The door was scarcely shut, when old Fogg turned round to me, with a sweet smile on his face, and drew the declaration out of his coat pocket.
What do you say, Mr. Fogg?''I say precisely what you say,' replied Fogg, with a smile of incredulity.
'I am to understand, then,' said Mr. Pickwick, 'that it really is your intention to proceed with this action?''Understand, sir!--that you certainly may,' replied Dodson, with something as near a smile as his importance would allow.
It's the only way to make a boy sharp, sir.''Rather a dangerous process, I should imagine,' said Mr. Pickwick, with a smile.
'Well, what do you think of what your father says, Sam?' inquired Mr. Pickwick, with a smile.
There was a fixed grim smile perpetually on his countenance; he leaned his chin on a long, skinny hand, with nails of extraordinary length; and as he inclined his head to one side, and looked keenly out from beneath his ragged gray eyebrows, there was a strange, wild slyness in his leer, quite repulsive to behold.
As the little old man concluded, he looked round on the attentive faces of his wondering auditory with a smile of grim delight.
A deep sigh escaped from the wasted form before him; the lips moved, and a smile played upon the face; but the lips were pallid, and the smile faded into a rigid and ghastly stare.
You are surprised at my wishing to postpone it," he added, with a ghastly smile; "but I had forgotten.
'There's no denying that 'ere,' said Mr. Weller, joining in the conversation, with an affable smile.
It's rather a good name, I think, sir.''A very good name, indeed,' said Mr. Pickwick, wholly unable to repress a smile.
Here Mr. Pickwick smiled again, a broader smile than before, and was about to continue the process of undressing, in the best possible humour, when he was suddenly stopped by a most unexpected interruption: to wit, the entrance into the room of some person with a candle, who, after locking the door, advanced to the dressing- table, and set down the light upon it.
The smile that played on Mr. Pickwick's features was instantaneously lost in a look of the most unbounded and wonder- stricken surprise.
At this parental and professional joke, Mr. Weller, junior, smiled a filial smile.
'What do you think of this, Sir?''Very effective indeed,' replied Mr. Pickwick, surveying the garments of Mr. Peter Magnus with a good-natured smile.
Mr. Jinks, not knowing exactly what to do, smiled a dependent's smile.
Immediately on the magistrate ceasing to speak, Mr. Pickwick, with a smile mantling on his again good-humoured countenance, stepped forward, and said--'I beg the magistrate's pardon, but may I request a few minutes' private conversation with him, on a matter of deep importance to himself?''What?' said the magistrate.
'Your Wash-up,' replied Grummer, with the smile of a favourite.
It is very unbecoming, and I can assure you that you have very little to smile at.
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