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Example sentences for "could not help smiling"

  • I could not help smiling as I thanked the hunter for my safety.

  • I could not help smiling at the ludicrous picture.

  • I could not help smiling at the night's adventures; determined, however, to conceal that part which related to the skeleton.

  • I could not help smiling as I looked at her sturdy arm, through whose opaque surface the blue wandering of the veins was vainly sought.

  • I could not help smiling at his gay nonsense,--his presence had been so brightening, so comforting.

  • Certainly," he answered; and he could not help smiling at the adroitness with which she changed positions with him.

  • I could not help smiling when I saw him lying by the roadside.

  • I could not help smiling at Mike's ideas of medicine, as I turned away to talk to the major, who was busily engaged beside me.

  • Troth, that same was possible," was the intelligent reply of the old butler, at which I could not help smiling.

  • I could not help smiling at the naïve notion of simplicity so cunningly suggested by old Monsoon.

  • Here concluded this long epistle; and though there were many parts I could not help smiling at, yet upon the whole I felt sad and dispirited.

  • I could not help smiling again as I assented.

  • I could not help smiling as I thought of my somewhat absurd fancies of the night before; but they were pleasant fancies, and I did not wonder that they had come to me.

  • I could not help smiling at her earnestness, but I answered that I did think so.

  • I could not help smiling at the poor man's talk.

  • At this, as being such a great exaggeration, I could not help smiling seriously; but I could not accept their sage opinion that, before I went to see my kinsman, I ought to write and ask his leave to do so.

  • I thought it very rude of him, yet I could not help smiling to see how he threw his glasses up and lifted his wiry crest of hair.

  • It was a distressing thing to see, and the Major's courage was so grand that I could not help smiling.

  • I could not help smiling--it was an answer so like Mrs. Halifax, who never indulged in any verbal sentimentalism.

  • The idea seemed so ludicrous, that I could not help smiling at it as I regarded him.

  • And I could not help smiling, being somewhat proud of my erudition.

  • I knew this was the most heroic personal sacrifice she could have made, yet I could not help smiling; even my father did the same.

  • I could not help smiling at this harangue, which was delivered with great earnestness, the tears standing in his eyes all the time, and promised to do nothing of that sort without his consent and concurrence.

  • I could not help smiling at the consummate assurance of this Hibernian, and offered to refer the dispute to anybody on board who understood the Greek alphabet.

  • I could not help smiling, but I instantly offered her a smelling bottle.

  • I could not help smiling at my concierge's reflection.

  • I could not help smiling at her question.

  • I could not help smiling at her embarrassment.

  • Tired and worried as I was, I could not help smiling at the awkward manner in which he made this offer.

  • Then I remembered how I had received there for the first time, some four years ago, my brother's Socialist friend, and I could not help smiling as I recollected my excitement on that occasion.

  • I could not help smiling at the peremptory manner in which poor Giannoli's adventures had almost been brought to a conclusion.


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