Agnes, whom I should have liked to take myself, was given to a simpering fellow with weak legs.
The simpering fellow with the weak legs, who had taken Agnes down, stated the question more decisively yet, I thought.
Involuntarily he put out his arm which girded a slender waist; Faith drove simpering by; the crowd melted like a receding wave, and the lady extricated herself, breathless as one of the maids in Lorenzo de Medici's Songs of the Carnival.
Suddenly he shrieked and a look of terror replaced the vain, simpering expression.
All heaven upsidedown; fat angels turning somersaults, saints like butchers, and martyrs simpering feebly.
I did play the simpering bride's maid, and stood for witness to thine espousal.
Ah, a stiff breeze will rejuvenate thy fifteen years one month to a lusty, crowing infant and my forty all-seasons to a simpering wench.
I began simpering directions over my shoulder in the Percy way with servants--and presently realized that all was not quite as it should be.
What does it amount to, pray, but that you'd like the pretty, simpering doll all to yourself?
What a little self-conscious affected donkey I became, shrilly hee-hawing away; the centre of a simpering throng plying me with flattery.
Mind in him about five years old, and will always stay five years old," said the guide, pointing to the wistful, simpering face.
The Honorable Pulaski turned to behold the simpering face of drunken Tommy Eye peering wistfully from his retirement.
I saw all her simpering and smiles while they were singing.
A simpering smile is still a tradesman's treasure; Give them enough of gammon, and short measure!
I am supposed to be moonstruck over a simpering American chit--moonstruck!
Do you suppose yoursimpering good spirits and your imbecile pink cheeks told me nothing?
She replied quite seriously, though he could have imagined some girls rather simpering over the question as a casual joke.
Why is yonder simpering Venus de' Medici to be our standard of beauty, or the Greek tragedies to bound our notions of the sublime?
They go in long trains to a sham court--simpering in tights and bags, with swords between their legs.
Roman toga, simpering and turning out his toes; and two dirty children playing, whose hoop-sticks caused great clattering echoes under the vacant sounding dome.
She stood for several minutes smiling and simpering at her reflection in the glass; then, pulling open a bureau drawer, took from it a scarlet shawl, which she folded with care and threw over her plump shoulders.
Next, a bonnet of crimson cotton velvet profusely trimmed with cheap feathers and flowers was taken from a bandbox, turned about admiringly in her hands, then tried on before the glass with a repetition of the simpering and smiling.
I know that men think they must be silly and simpering in woman's presence, because they suppose she can appreciate and enjoy nothing higher.
Over the draped chimney-piece a rosewood overmantel obtruded with carved cubicles, enclosing each a simpering statuette.
I want to be amused, you see, not stunned by mere colour and light, and rows of common, simpering girls advertising for a husband.
His lordship took not the least notice of the coldness of my manner; but, with simpering complacency, 'hoped I had been well, since he had had the pleasure of seeing me.
Simpering young ladies, and simpering ladies that were no longer young, greeted me with a pretty, patronizing courtesy, and smiled upon my remarks as sweetly as we grown people do at the crude observances of a prattling child.
She drags her shoulders out of her dress, she never lets her eyes alone: and she goes simpering and ogling about like a French waiting-maid.
Cupolas through the length and breadth of Italy began to be covered with clouds and simpering cherubs in the convulsions of artificial ecstasy.
At the pleasant luncheon and dance on the grass that the officers gave, in that pretty field by the river, half-a-dozen of the young people had got beside the little brook that runs simpering and romping into the river just there.
Devereux looked round the room, among nodding plumes and flashing brilliants, and smirking old bucks, and simpering young ones, amidst the buzz of two or three hundred voices, and the thunder and braying of the band.
He had seen her look a thousand ways during these last few weeks when she had kept on drawing his attention to her with her simpering girl's tricks, but he could not imagine how she would look then.
He treated her infrequent errors in typing as if she was a simpering girl who was trying to buy idleness with her charm.
There dost thou glide from fair to fair, Still simpering on with eager haste, As flies along the gay parterre, That taint the flowers they scarcely taste.
III Mrs. Bogart had, by the simpering viciousness of her comments on the new furniture, stirred Carol to economy.
She was close to simperingin the sweetness with which she addressed Mrs Howland: "I think that is the prettiest display of beef-tea your husband has in his store.
The film was a highly advertised and abysmal thing smacking of simpering hair-dressers, cheap perfume, red-plush suites on the back streets of tenderloins, and complacent fat women chewing gum.
