The bland innocence of his pudgy face and the seraphic mildness of his unblinking almond eyes that peeped through slits no wider than the streak of a charcoal-pencil were as the guilelessness of Mother Eve in the garden.
Shrewd, bland Chinese intermingled with the crowd and raked in the silver and copper coins that seemed to flow toward them by a magnetic attraction.
With a bland bow and never a glance at Peter Gross, Chi Wung strutted out in Oriental dignity, carrying his empty tray.
Ah Sing's bland and placid face remained expressionless as a carved god's.
He unfastened the strip of cloth, and, advancing, presented it to Whitepow, with a bland smile.
Karlsefin went up to the native who appeared to be the chief of the band, and, with a bland smile, took his hand gently and shook it.
Perfectly, Monsieur le Marquis," I replied with a bland smile.
I pride myself on the way that I bear that kind of scrutiny, so even now I looked bland and withal purposeful and capable.
Her spectacles reflected the bland light of the day as smilingly as the eyes above which they were poised, as she stood in the doorway, and with fluttering graciousness received the homage of her beneficiaries.
Perhaps I am unjust to him; but I thought he treated us all with a sort of bland pity that I found very offensive.
He spoke little, but he was an admirable listener, and there was a sweet encouragement in the bland nod of his head, and a racy appreciation in the bright twinkle of his humorous eye, that the prosiest talker found irresistible.
I hope my colonel, with that bland mercy which characterises him, will forgive my fault, and let me ask his pardon.
The Chief, turning himself round toward her with a hitch of his chair, began as bland and friendly as if they'd just met at a tea-fest.
The tone of his voice assured them that he was in a bland and indulgent mood, and the two little girls ran towards him.
He was in a bland and condescending humour of universal approval, and when he saw Ruth, he nodded his head in token of satisfaction.
But, in the very instant of her fear, Ludovico was his own bland self again.
Thenceforth he saw his way smoothly, if any term so bland could be applied to such a devious course of policy.
The irritant action of hydrated chloral on the stomach can be avoided by the use of bland fluids or dilute solutions.
The fact that Free Iodine in the form of Iodex can now be used in rectal and vaginal treatment, without irritation, speaks volumes for its penetrability and bland action.
Mr. Bland has experienced great difficulty in inducing the tenants to bear any share of the cost of building and other improvements.
Fortunately they were in good hands, for Mr. Bland went to work, at first gently and afterwards more swiftly, at the task of making land and people more civilised than had been thought possible up to his time.
It is said that the father of Mr. Bland went to his first school in a pannier, a stone being put in the opposite one to steady the load on the ass's back.
Mr. Bland has under his paternal rule about 300 agricultural tenants besides the villagers of Sneem, who mostly have lots lying contiguous to, or at some little distance from, their houses.
Mr. Bland has done what he could, but has rarely found anybody inclined to pay more than 2 per cent.
The hands then amalgamated, and the punch subsided in a bland and complacent rub.
Wycherley: bland and bald with a fine bead, and a face naturally intelligent, but crossed every now and then by gleams of vacancy; a man of large reading, and of tact to make it subserve his interests.
A block over to the east Broadway was strident in the flood of its nocturnal traffic; a like distance to the west Riverside Drive hummed with pleasure cars taking advantage of the first bland night of that belated spring.
Rounding on a heel, Blensop paused, head to one side, a slight frown shadowing hisbland countenance, and stood briefly rooted in some perplexity of obscure origin.
A click answered, and a bland voice which was not the voice he had expected to hear: "Hello?
My dear young man," said he, with a bland smile, "I very much fear that the general has little time at this moment to give the matter much of his attention.
I have that honor, sir," said he, with a bland smile.
Friederich Othmar, vaguely, with that bland indifference which was his favourite mask and weapon.
Ere De Vitry could answer, Ramiro d'Orco had risen, and, with a bland smile upon his lip, was approaching them.
He'll want that bland burglar sometime, and he'd oblige me greatly by taking him now.
Therefore, Bland concluded that Parliament technically had no jurisdiction over the American colonies.
Two other famous songs written byBland were "Dem Golden Slippers" and "In the Evening by the Moonlight.
For one moment the latter gave him a stern look, as if he suspected him of being a man forgotten by the tug, but a bland smile of good-will overspread his features when the former explained his wishes.
I came home with Lady Bland in the coach, and went with Mr. Cattel and Mr. Brettargh to dinner.
Lady Bland sent to invite me to the dancing to-night.
Mr. Lambert's face hardened a little; the expression of bland benevolence left his eyes, which now grew cold and piercing.
