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Smiled in sentence

541 examples of Smiled in a sentence

K.'s uncle knocked at the very first door at ground level; while they waited he smiled, showing his big teeth, and whispered, "Eight o'clock; not the usual sort of time to be visiting a lawyer, but Huld won't mind it from me."Two large, black eyes appeared in the spy-hatch in the door, they stared at the two visitors for a while and then disappeared; the door, however, did not open.
"I'm afraid I'll only be able to stay a few minutes more," smiled the office director as he spread himself out in the armchair and looked at the clock.
Just then the deputy director came out of the adjoining room, smiled as he saw K. negotiating with the gentlemen in his winter coat, and asked, "Are you about to go out?""Yes," said K., standing more upright, "I have to go out on some business."
"So you weren't thinking about the great lawyers at that time?" asked K."Not for very long," said the businessman, and smiled again, "you can't forget about them entirely, I'm afraid, especially in the night when these thoughts come so easily.
She smiled and nodded to K., K. looked blankly back at her."Fetch Block," said the lawyer.
We smiled sadly at one another, and said we supposed we had better try to swallow a bit.
I smiled at the black gentleman, and said I thought we were going to have the carriage to ourselves; and he laughed pleasantly, and said that some people made such a fuss over a little thing.
We smiled at one another, and Harris got a spoon ready.
It was to his satisfaction, and Gregor's mother and sister, who had been looking on anxiously, began to breathe again and smiled.
The violin went silent, the middle of the three gentlemen first smiled at his two friends, shaking his head, and then looked back at Gregor.
"What do you mean?", asked the middle of the three gentlemen somewhat disconcerted, and he smiled sweetly.
Frances smiled faintly, and shook her head, but made no reply.
Dunwoodie, who had seen one of his own men ride him down, and that with very little ceremony, slightly smiled, as he offered him surgical assistance.
Frances smiled with something of natural archness of manner, as she contemplated the grotesque appearance of the bald-headed practitioner; but Sarah was too much agitated, with the surprise of the unexpected interview with the British colonel, to observe him.
The amiable spinster smiled as she felt it to be improbable that she should ever have met her new acquaintance before, and not remember his singularities.
"Madam," said the trooper, bowing very low, "both you and the tale are extremely interesting" - Katy smiled involuntarily - "but my humble knowledge is limited to the setting of a squadron in the field, and using it when there.
His patient smiled, as he gently repulsed his physician in an attempt to undo the bandages, and with a returning glow to his cheeks, inquired,-"Do, Archibald," - a term of endearment that seldom failed to soften the operator's heart, - "tell me what spirit from heaven has been gliding around my apartment, while I lay pretending to sleep?""If anyone interferes with my patients," cried the doctor, hastily, "I will teach them, spirit or no spirit, what it is to meddle with another man's concerns."
Frances smiled, but averted her face, while Sarah moved, with the grace of an offended Juno, from the apartment.
As she alluded to the conversation that occurred between her father and his guest, the major smiled but remained silent.
When she spoke of herself in connection with their guest, he smiled with pleasure, and as she concluded, he exclaimed, with delight,-"We are safe!
Then quite a group of boys and girls--playmates of Tom's and Joe's--came by, and stood looking over the paling fence and talking in reverent tones of how Tom did so-and-so the last time they saw him, and how Joe said this and that small trifle (pregnant with awful prophecy, as they could easily see now!)--and each speaker pointed out the exact spot where the lost lads stood at the time, and then added something like "and I was a-standing just so--just as I am now, and as if you was him--I was as close as that--and he smiled, just this way--and then something seemed to go all over me, like--awful, you know--and I never thought what it meant, of course, but I can see now!"Then there was a dispute about who saw the dead boys last in life, and many claimed that dismal distinction, and offered evidences, more or less tampered with by the witness; and when it was ultimately decided who _did_ see the departed last, and exchanged the last words with them, the lucky parties took upon themselves a sort of sacred importance, and were gaped at and envied by all the rest.
"Do you remember this?" said he.Becky almost smiled.
Bonaventure de Lapp smiled at me as we walked on together.
'But,' says she, 'that will not keep you and buy you clothes too; and who must buy the little gentlewoman clothes?' says she, and smiled all the while at me.'I will work harder, then,' says I, 'and you shall have it all.'
He smiled when he herd all this, and I asked him how he could make so light of it, when he must needs know that if there was any discovery I was undone for ever, and that even it would hurt him, though not ruin him as it would me.
He saw me warm and serious, and he changed his style immediately; he told me he was sorry I should have such a thought of him; that he had never given me the least occasion for it, but had been as tender of my reputation as he could be of his own; that he was sure our correspondence had been managed with so much address, that not one creature in the family had so much as a suspicion of it; that if he smiled when I told him my thoughts, it was at the assurance he lately received, that our understanding one another was not so much as known or guessed at; and that when he had told me how much reason he had to be easy, I should smile as he did, for he was very certain it would give me a full satisfaction.
He smiled a little too at the word, but I could see it startled him, and he could not hide the disorder it put him into.
I smiled and said nothing.
I smiled and said, 'No, indeed, sir, that's none of my distemper.'
By and by he asked me to sing them a song, at which I smiled, and said my singing days were over.
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