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Example sentences for "grim smile"

  • His glance had grown, if possible, more penetrating than before, and a grim smile responded to the unctuous expression of the spy.

  • Mortimer gazed at the grave with a grim smile.

  • Mohun opened his eyes, and a grim smile came to his pale face.

  • A grim smile came to the face of the journalist, as he showed me the passage.

  • Yes and no," he answered, with a grim smile.

  • Oh, he was mad enough," replied Dave, with a grim smile.

  • Well, both of you can't go," answered Dave, with a grim smile.

  • Yes, I know that Mr. Duncaster," said Dick, with a grim smile at the recollection of the interview with the man.

  • He concluded his remarks with a grim smile.

  • It's your turn, Weston," and Dick turned aside to conceal a grim smile on his face.

  • Grit may come in handy if Duncaster sets his dogs on us," remarked Dick with a grim smile, as they bowled along at good speed.

  • The warrior's frown relaxed into a grim smile, as he yielded his hand to his young follower's hearty grip.

  • Gradually the trader's face relaxed into a grim smile.

  • A moment the retort brought a grim smile to Leif's lips; then suddenly his face froze into a look of terrible anger.

  • Tell her it means all summer here for me and no new bonnets for her until next winter," replied MacFarlane with a grim smile.

  • I notice that you seldom salute him, Major, and it grieves me," he said with a grim smile.

  • I bid you not to fail in the performance of your duty, but I counsel you to lay on lightly," returned the jester, with a grim smile.

  • If it ever comes to that, I hope you will prove grateful and lay on lightly," returned the man, with a grim smile.

  • I will taste it and try," said the merchant, with a grim smile.

  • Ludar, with a grim smile, owned that he had the worst of this encounter, and made the fellow happy by carrying his box in one hand; although he alarmed him not a little by offering to carry him in the other.

  • He tore it open and read it eagerly, and, as he did so, his face relaxed into a grim smile.

  • There was a grim smile on his lips as he watched the panic- stricken sailors hauling off their ship; and once he turned and looked up, not at me, but at where I had been.

  • Sir Ludar, with a grim smile, locked up the beadle in his place, and flung the key into the pond.

  • You see fate had decreed it," said the doctor, with a grim smile.

  • A grim smile of self-satisfied power broke over her dark face as she observed it, and her voice had a steely tone of command, as she said: "Now for the child.

  • Give him a dose of strong waters and capsicum," said the elder compassionately; and Standish with a grim smile remarked, "Truly the man hath been an apt scholar in the ways of civilization.

  • Myles as softly, but pulling his red beard with a grim smile.

  • Standish, who was on his knees sighting his saker, did not hurry himself to rise, but when he did so turned and eyed his ally with a grim smile.

  • Besides," he added with a grim smile, "yaller wouldn't suit your complexion.

  • Thankye," said the old man, with a grim smile; "but my eyes are not had enough to make a mistake.

  • They are getting sick," said John Monnick with a grim smile.

  • This is the bomb which I hope will help us," said Dick, a grim smile on his lips.

  • There was a grim smile on his face as he said the words, and he looked closely at Dick.

  • Then he smiled, a grim smile of amusement and of exultation, for he had conquered.

  • Count Hannibal returned, showing his teeth in a grim smile.

  • Count Hannibal stood where he had stood before, a grim smile on his lips.

  • But Clon shook his head with a grim smile, and pointed to the arquebuss.

  • Sir Murray was all that could be desired, and favoured more strongly than ever the matrimonial projects of his lordship, telling him, with a grim smile, that he need fear no rival now.

  • There was a grim smile of pride and pleasure upon Captain Norton's scarred face, as, after hastily rolling up his plans, he caught at his son's disengaged hand.

  • Come and look, Master Roy," he said, with a grim smile.

  • She pointed to the couch, and a grim smile of satisfaction crossed the soldier's deeply-lined face.

  • Well, I am, Master Roy," said the man, with a grim smile of pride.

  • You are shrewd," observed the chief of Secret Police, with a grim smile.

  • I shall be able to assume that character well," she said, with a grim smile.

  • Sonia, into whose delicate hands he gave it, examined it critically, with a grim smile of satisfaction, then placed it carefully upon a little Moorish coffee-stool at her side.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
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