It is called the Typhonium, on account of the grimacing figures which stand before the piers.
The authors of the Description called them Typhonia, from the effigy of a grimacing deity which figures in their decoration.
There was a little winking andgrimacing among those of the company who heard this answer.
Considerably cheaper in expense of money; and in expense of falsity and grimacing hypocrisy (of which no human arithmetic can count the ultimate cost) incalculably cheaper!
Did you think the Life of Man was a grimacing dance of apes?
For only answer the other squealed and whinnied, grimacing and kicking his legs up at the same time.
At the same moment the grimacing stranger dropped his own book also, not in imitation, but by obvious coincidence, and stooped to pick it up with the self-same gesture.
He's grimacing and contorting himself in the most extraordinary fashion.
He looked as if he were both smiling and grimacing at his rifle, stuck straight up in the mud before him.
They come up with their old wan faces, toiling, sweating, and grimacing with the effort.
The landlord bowed with a grimacing smile, brought, with a speed far from common with people of his calling, the refreshments ordered, and gave the hunter a deep bow.
There was almost a suspicion of a leonine snarl in the stereotyped answer, “You are very kind to say so,” which he gave to the grimacing persons who buttonholed him to bask in the radiance of his success or to effuse honest admiration.
Lieutenant Tibbetts stumbled to his feet glaring and grimacing wildly.
Picture Bones with a baby under his arm--a baby indignant, outraged, infernally uncomfortable, and grimacing a yell into being.
It was Gaspard, the servant, who stood in the door-way, bowing and grimacing respectfully as he held it open.
The clever servant was mouthing andgrimacing in a horrible, grotesque manner.
Another, no less curious, had for cover a monstrous Typhon head, adorned with palms and grimacing between two vipers.
John asked her, grimacing delight in his sudden comprehension, and took her answer in a kiss.
I confess I am a little upset myself, but not too disturbed to be hungry," and with a weak attempt at grimacing humor, the big man laid a hand upon the region of his diaphragm.
John, all chagrin as he deposited the lady upon her feet, saw her lip curl, and her dark eyes flash scornfully at the leading juvenile man who, with grimacing intent to tease, had made the remark to the ingenue as both passed near.
There is something alarming in the awkwardness of the grimacing object begotten by that obstructed brain.
The troops retired to their tea after a pretty little skirmish; and the Hauhaus marched back to the pa in high jubilation, singing war-songs, waving their guns, and bounding about and grimacing like a company of fiends.
They had to stare the grimacing truth straight in the face; they were yielding because they dared not refuse.
Don't stand there scowling and grimacing like an idiot," said Norman with an amused smile.
A dozen times before dawn old Bartlemy rose to bend over the two, grinning and grimacing as he did so, and clasping his hands in ecstasy.
He then threw himself down on the earthen floor beside it, and lay there grinning and grimacing at the flames till Hugo and Humphrey fell asleep.
She saw Lem grimacing at her through the rays of the lantern.
Lon, grimacing with delight, bounded up and faced Lem.
Steen himself, portly and flushed, sits at the table, grimacing good-naturedly at the racket assailing his ears.
A mist came over his eyes, the odd, grimacing face worked.
He moved a tall man of forty-odd, with a quick, odd grimacing face, not unpleasing.
While some parts of his body remained absolutely fixed, restrained and immovable, his face was constantly undergoing various grimacing motions, accompanied now and then by the snapping of his jaws and a growl.
At this the yelling must have been heard in the square, and the gesticulating and grimacing would have been amusing on a less serious occasion.
And the incomparable one," grimacing prettily at me, "will foot it trippingly by the look of him.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "grimacing" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
