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Smiled in sentence

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But she smiled with the wandering smile of the dying, and her eyes were very large; while her poor hands contracted over her hollow breast.
Everything went off beautifully, Madame Hennebeau was charming with Cécile, and she smiled at Négrel when the Montsou lawyer gallantly proposed the health of the future household.
But fortune smiled on him.
She smiled under the tender warmth, and drops of water could be heard falling one by one on the stretched silk.
They all wore orders, and smiled silently as they made their strokes.
I have always got on with ladies—if I didn't with my own!"Emma smiled.
The councillor pressing his little cocked hat to his breast repeated his bows, while Tuvache, bent like a bow, also smiled, stammered, tried to say something, protested his devotion to the monarchy and the honour that was being done to Yonville.
He smiled beneath it with a perfectly infantine sweetness, and his pale little face, whence drops were running, wore an expression of enjoyment and sleepiness.
They heard the chiming of bells, the neighing of mules, together with the murmur of guitars and the noise of fountains, whose rising spray refreshed heaps of fruit arranged like a pyramid at the foot of pale statues that smiled beneath playing waters.
She smiled all the time.
She involuntarily smiled with vanity on seeing the crowd rushing to the right by the other corridor while she went up the staircase to the reserved seats.
So, striving to divert her thoughts, Emma determined now to see in this reproduction of her sorrows only a plastic fantasy, well enough to please the eye, and she even smiled internally with disdainful pity when at the back of the stage under the velvet hangings a man appeared in a black cloak.
Eating his cutlet and drinking his tea, he buried his chin in his sky-blue cravat, into which were thrust two diamond pins, held together by a small gold chain; and he smiled a singular smile, in a sugary, ambiguous fashion.
In the twilight of the workshop the white dust was flying from his tools like a shower of sparks under the hoofs of a galloping horse; the two wheels were turning, droning; Binet smiled, his chin lowered, his nostrils distended, and, in a word, seemed lost in one of those complete happinesses that, no doubt, belong only to commonplace occupations, which amuse the mind with facile difficulties, and satisfy by a realisation of that beyond which such minds have not a dream.
Her teeth chattered, her dilated eyes looked vaguely about her, and to all questions she replied only with a shake of the head; she even smiled once or twice.
He smiled without ceasing in an approving manner.
The girl smiled a little and then blushed; she feared, for this good-looking young man, the satirical attention and witticisms of the billiard players.
The abbe Pirard almost smiled.
The Director of the Seminary smiled for the first time.
The gentleman smiled and laid a hand on his shoulder.
Everyone smiled, even the grave young men, the hope of the age.
Julien smiled as intelligently as he was able.
(Compare the _Gazette des Tribunaux_. )The man with the waistcoats and the fatherly air (he was a Bishop, perhaps), smiled often, and then his eyes, between their tremulous lids, assumed a strange brilliance and an expression less undecided than was his wont.
Everyone smiled; the turncoat General seemed beside himself with rage.
'Two hundred thousand young men of the middle class are in love with the idea of war....''Enough unpleasant truths,' came in a tone of importance from a grave personage, apparently high on the ladder of ecclesiastical preferment, for M. de La Mole smiled pleasantly instead of showing annoyance, which was highly significant to Julien.
This scene cheered our hero somewhat; he almost smiled.
"No, it can't happen again," she agreed, and smiled at K. in a way that was almost pained.
K. smiled and said, "And now the judge, right next to me, is giving a secret sign to someone among you.
K. smiled and twisted his hand round a little in her soft hands.
The young woman smiled too, but lightly tapped the man's arm with the tips of her fingers as if he had allowed himself too much fun with K."So what do you think, then?" said the man, still laughing, "I really do want to lead the gentleman out of here."
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