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Smiling in sentence

583 examples of Smiling in a sentence

True enough, it's not little Serezha now, but a complete Sergey Alexeyich!' said Oblonsky, smiling as he looked at a handsome boy in a blue jacket and long trousers who entered the room boldly and confidently.
But she immediately began to wonder what those two young girls could be smiling at.
Unless indeed to the Turks!...' he added, smiling with his lips only.
And you, as usual,' said he; smiling, 'are enjoying tranquil happiness outside the currents in your peaceful shadows.
When I have had a wash I shall look like a human being!'Katavasov said in his usual jesting way, holding out his hand and smiling, his teeth looking particularly bright in contrast with his black face.
'The Turks!' answered Koznyshev, quietly smiling, having extracted the bee which, black with honey, moved its legs helplessly.
Kitty's wet and rosy face was turned to him, timidly smiling beneath her bedraggled hat.
He said, smiling:"Will you come and see?""The poor little darling!" she murmured.
M. Grégoire, who had been advised to sell out when this figure of a million was reached, had refused with his smiling paternal air.
He watched the young girl go out, and asked, smiling:"Well! and the marriage with little Négrel?""Nothing has been settled," said Madame Grégroire; "it is only an idea.
"What a lot of things!" murmured Alzire, smiling at the provisions.
The fund was exhausted; the Company would not yield; every day must aggravate the situation; and they preserved their hope and showed a smiling contempt for facts.
In spite of his anxiety, he could not help smiling when he looked at her, so vast did she appear, with a pair of breasts so huge that one alone would require a man to embrace it, which now led to the saying that of her six weekday lovers she had to take two every evening on account of the work.
He never ventured to gesticulate, but stood stolid and smiling, drowning them and dazing them, until they all shouted: "Yes, yes, that's true enough, you're right!
He was indeed unlike the smiling discreet man, so fat and gentle, whose only anxiety was to live at peace with everybody.
All the sous in his pockets had long gone to the urchins of the settlement; he had been as tender as a brother with the colliers, smiling at their suspicion, winning them over by his quiet workmanlike ways and his dislike of chattering.
They both showed themselves for a moment at a window of the receiving-room; the head captain stood in the background, rather out of countenance since his adventure with Pierronne, while the engineer bravely looked round on the crowd with his bright little eyes, smiling with that sneering contempt in which he enveloped men and things generally.
His smiling face struck the guests.
Around him the room appeared larger without the clock or the polished deal furniture which formerly animated it; there only remained against the green crudity of the walls the portraits of the emperor and empress, whose rosy lips were smiling with official benevolence.
I couldn't help smiling as Conseil wiped himself out of existence.
I couldn't help smiling at this outlandish notion.
I couldn't help smiling.
She held him by one arm, her basket hanging from the other; the wind blew the long lace of her Cauchois headdress so that it sometimes flapped across his mouth, and when he turned his head he saw near him, on his shoulder, her little rosy face, smiling silently under the gold bands of her cap.
The naive ones, a tear on their cheeks, were kissing doves through the bars of a Gothic cage, or, smiling, their heads on one side, were plucking the leaves of a marguerite with their taper fingers, that curved at the tips like peaked shoes.
Along the line of seated women painted fans were fluttering, bouquets half hid smiling faces, and gold stoppered scent-bottles were turned in partly-closed hands, whose white gloves outlined the nails and tightened on the flesh at the wrists.
Sometimes in the afternoon outside the window of her room, the head of a man appeared, a swarthy head with black whiskers, smiling slowly, with a broad, gentle smile that showed his white teeth.
She could not help smiling, and she fell asleep, her soul filled with a new delight.
She was surprised sometimes at the atrocious conjectures that came into her thoughts, and she had to go on smiling, to hear repeated to her at all hours that she was happy, to pretend to be happy, to let it be believed.
Rodolphe, having caught sight of him from afar, hurried on, but Madame Bovary lost her breath; so he walked more slowly, and, smiling at her, said in a rough tone—"It's only to get away from that fat fellow, you know, the druggist."
As soon as he recognised Rodolphe he came forward quickly, and smiling amiably, said—"What!
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