Inspector strove to mask their emotions under an exaggerated grimness of mien, only their eyes betraying their feelings.
To them it did not seem exactly to be an occasion for levity; but they could have sworn that, behind an exaggerated grimness of mien, he was striving to suppress some inward mirth, as his deep-set Irish eyes roved from face to face.
Their sour faces, the grimness with which they passed the salt, filled her with nervous tremors, and she talked as a born hostess might talk to cover the confusion induced by an earthquake under the table, trembling but fluent to the last.
Well the "good" had not been effectual enough to last, so that far the grimness of the tradition did not belie itself.
On the contrary, the set grimness on every countenance seemed to deepen.
Then she saw the greatest change of all in him, the quietgrimness that had come upon him out of his nights of pain and days of solitude.
And she could picture the bronzed grimness of his face.
There was a humorous grimness about his mouth that carried conviction.
He had forced himself into the stone framing of the window, and she could hear him breathing hard with the grimness of the climb.
There was a gleam of grimness in his eyes as he spoke.
Jack’s a man with a tight mouth and a kind of grimness that sails straight in the face of a storm.
He wished to hide all the grimness of the night’s work from her, seeing that her great eyes were ready to grow frightened and full of fear, showing that she had borne too much already in body and soul.
He went up silently, for he was in his stockings, but there was more grimness in that swift and silent climb than any clangor and clash that armed men might have made.
Facing the dark-eyed youth, who regarded him expectantly, he spoke deliberately and with a grimness that gave assurance of his unalterable resolution.
And then, to bring the grimness of warfare once more to their minds, a Red Cross ambulance, leaving behind it a long trail of yellowish dust, rumbled up the hill, carrying its load of wounded to the base hospital further to the rear.
There was a certain air ofgrimness and sternness, however, about the men whom they encountered that soon removed this impression.
But there was a grimness about the very good nature, decided Spence.
Without a word De Marsac and the Abbot--or the Scrivener as I knew him--closed their visors and with a grimness faced their foes.
With a grimness that surprised me the captain held doggedly on his way.
And there was enough of grimnessin the present situation to make it cruelty.
Between times, he walked with a dogged grimness toward the place where Vale had been the first to report a thing come down from the sky.
A jazzy concert of piano and string music in the social hall annoyed him, and a little later he watched the dancing with such grimness that someone remarked about it.
Alan did not observe it, or the grimness that had settled in the face behind him.
There was more than grimness in the other's face, and a strange sort of sickness lay in his eyes.
Some of the grimness faded from the wrinkled old face, and the housekeeper, for this her appearance proclaimed her to be, bowed in a queer Victorian fashion which suggested that a curtsy might follow.
He did not instantly reply, but when he did, it was on a note of grimness that she had never heard from him before.
Her look held almost desperate entreaty for a moment, but he met it with the utmost grimnessand it quickly died.
They looked at one another with stern eyes, and with that grimness that takes the place which fear would hold in meaner souls.
Say on," the Duke bade him, without relaxing the grimness that tightened his flabby face.
His eyes were very gentle and the grimness had gone from his mouth, but Robin could not see that.
His face was grey, he looked unutterably tired, his mouth had the stark grimness of the man who endures, asking nothing of Fate.
There was some hint of returning grimness in Dick's voice.
Mrs. Pomfrey, and there was a mingled reluctance and grimness in her smile, "and do you think of yourself as unmarriageable?
And even before she had let her thoughts dwell decisively on Rhoda, she had found herself thinking, while the grimness settled on her face, "I shall know how to talk to her.
She tempered her grimness by a slight, bleak smile, however, for she and Aubrey Westmacott understood each other and had the gardener's soul, for which no work is too hard and no disappointments too many.
There is, however, a pervading sternness and grimness resulting from the dark gray granite, which is the universal building-material both of the old and new edifices.
There you certainly get a great sense of grimness and vastness; here you have an equal grimness and vastness with the addition of superb colour.
The tragedy of that fruit-gathering is described with extraordinary grimness and force in the abrupt language of verse 3.
Thou shalt rest'; well, that is a thought that takes away a great deal of the grimness and the terror with which men generally invest the close.
Fortunately young Rawlings relieved thegrimness of everything just then.
The Commander's grimness was gradually wearing off, and when Captain Marshall had told him one or two funny stories, and he had laughed several times, he became quite cheerful.
The accumulative grimness of her countenance became something startling.
There was need, certainly, for any and all suggestions as to means for ameliorating in any degree a situation the grimness of which was beginning to force itself upon even the most optimistic of the company.
The city itself, as you penetrate it, makes good with its stateliness and picturesqueness your loss through the grimness of its environs.
Is it not possible, by bringing such a book into the open air, to separate it from the grimness of commentators, and bring it back to life and light and Italy?
