Nancy smiled provokingly and by ill-luck Baldwin saw her and his wrath blazed out afresh.
She smiled and passed on; but the words in their careless humour had struck her heart like a blow.
Nancy smiled and said nothing, waiting the development of events with a strange incuriosity that was the result of her slack hold on life.
Jagger smiled and ungrudgingly admitted that he couldn’t have done better work himself, but Baldwin had to be summoned a second time before he approached.
He opened his eyes and smiled into hers, gurgling his appreciation of the light that shone there and the comfort of her arms; and not a shadow lingered on her face.
He smiled as he completed the sentence, and the look and tone of assurance kindled Baldwin’s wrath.
His eyes smiled into Nancy’s as he said it; but the rest of his face was passive.
Inman smiled his self-congratulations as he slung the bag over the moulding of the old-fashioned bookcase, where it raised a cloud of dust that assured him the place of concealment was well-chosen.
He smiled and handed me his "notes," which are before me as I write.
A locomotive whistled at the crossing two squares up the street, and the King smiled a little smile and rasped a lean and avaricious chin with a fabulously bony hand.
But as I see you are a traveler, you no doubt have fared worse at times," and he smiled again in such a friendly way, that Ned took a great liking to him.
Ned obeyed and followed the Gnome along a narrow path until they came to a small clearing, where the blue sky smileddown upon them.
And he winked at his courtiers, who smiled to themselves, for they all thought Ned would fail, after all, for as yet there wasn't a drop of water in the well.
Ned was too delighted to speak for a moment, for up to this time his experiences had been most trying, but here at last it seemed that fortune smiled upon him.
The landlord smiled eagerly, shook his head, and bent toward his speaker.
The Spaniard smiled and intimated that the lady probably thought he could paint.
Claude took the hand and held it, while Zoséphine smiled and secretly thanked God her child was away.
The boy smiled for the first time in weeks, then climbed half upon the bed, buried his face in the priest's bosom, and sobbed as though his heart had broken.
Adjieu," responded Bonaventure, with some alarm; but the spokesmansmiled re-assuringly.
The other smiled defensively, and responded: "You've got a good memory for sta-stistics.
The ex-governor was fond of his company, although the curé only smiled at politics and turned the conversation back to family matters.
They smiled at one another and tapped the forehead with one finger, as he turned away with his question answered by a shake of the head.
He bent toward his hearer with a smile of irresistible sweetness, drew his lips away from his gums, snapped his teeth together loudly twice or thrice, and smiled again, modestly.
The suitor smiled at his own ludicrousness, yet for all that looked beseechingly in earnest.
The Watermelon leaned back in the deep soft cushions of the big car and smiled a smile of calm and peace and comfort.
He smiled at the friendliness he saw in her eyes and turned to the old gentleman, who was now thoroughly absorbed.
Henrietta smiled and took out the napkins she had laid back in the basket.
She approached the table and smiled jovially from one to the other.
And the poor, shivering, naked wretch drew himself up proudly and smiled with much complacency.
James smiled grimly and drew himself up to his full height with just pride.
He smiledupon me indifferently; a pure disdain chiselled every feature in that attitude.
But Starwood smiled such a meaning smile that I was astonished, and could only sit down.
Those few days I was inexpressibly wretched,--a foreboding drowned my ecstatic hopes in dread; they became a constant effort to maintain, though even everything still smiled around us.
Anastase smiled slightly, and then shut up his lips; but a sort of flush tinged his cheeks, I thought.
They laughed till they saw how serious I had grown again, and then smiled at each other.
He just laid his little hand on my hair, and smiled inquiringly, "Oh!
He smiled warmly as he read, and thus our correspondence proceeded: "Franz Delemann.
That is why he smiled tolerantly upon his colleague who talked of humanity instead of dollars.
Peter smiled and bowed and went his way hurriedly, his pale lips working nervously with the excitement that filled him.
Starr smiled while he said it, but there was a look in his eyes and around his mouth that made Helen May yield suddenly.
He remembered, too, that he had glanced back from the doorway and caught her still looking after him; and that he had smiled, and she had smiledswiftly in return and had then turned away abruptly to her work.
Starr smiled to himself and proceeded to carry on a one-sided conversation with Pat, and to smoke his cigarette.
His mother, sitting just inside the doorway, nodded her head now and then and smiled just as though she knew what her son was saying; proud of his high learning, she was.
Elfigo Apodaca, in another kitchen chair tilted back against an angle of the wall so that he half faced Holman Sommers, stretched out his legs and smiled tolerantly.
But because his voice was warm with human sympathy and the cordiality of a man who is very sure of himself and can afford to be cordial, she smiled back at him.
She smiled at him now and then, tilting her head because the daffodils stood between them.
All through breakfast he talked with her, looked into her eyes, smiled at her across the table.
Peter was neither an atheist nor a socialist, yet he was close to cursing his God and his country whenever Helen May smiled at him around the dozen daffodils.
Peter smiled politely, and went down the hall to the elevator, and laid his finger on the bell, and waited until the steel cage paused to let him in.
Peter very kindly and patiently discussed the matter with her, and smiled and bowed politely when she finally decided to try another place.
He smiled reassuringly at her while he dusted his trousers with the flat of his hands.
Then he smiled at her half sadly, and wished her good-morning.
Igraine smiled softly to herself, turned her back on Brastias and stared long into the fire.
Igraine smiled like a young mother as she put his hands from his face with a gradual insistence.
Uther watched them with a great pride stealing into his eyes; he smiled and held his head high.
Looking out again over wood and valley, the golden haze, the torpor of the trees mocked him with a lethargy that smiled at the impotence of man.
All the eastern casements of Caerleon glimmered gold as the dawn struck over wood and hill; the city's walls smiled out of the night; her vanes and towers were noosed as with fire.
Igraine put his hands gently down upon the coverlet, and smiled at him.
She sat on her bed, andsmiled the whole strange day over to herself again.
Pelleas smiled down at her like the sun from behind a cloud.
Igraine smiled to herself, and halted a moment in her answer.
Gorlois took a deep breath, andsmiled at the dark yews, sombre and mysterious behind their belt of glowing roses.
She smiled at him, a smile that was almost a leer.
Yet had Igraine been asked of peace at heart, she would have smiled and sighed together.
It smiled sweetly, hung over him, played with his chestnut curls, softly touched his lips with her own, passed her trembling fingers over his cheeks, and its warm breath appeared as if it melted into his.
He turned toward the window and smiled rather tentatively at the man who stood there; motionless since his first conventional gesture of politeness: "Dr.
But the boy believed that he did understand this and often he smiled to himself over it, without any bitterness--just smiled half wistfully.
No one, at least since he could remember, had ever before smiled and asked Denny Bolton to "do it--for me.
And The Pilgrim smiled a little--smiled into Morehouse's face.
He even smiled once, a fleeting, mirthless smile that tugged at the corners of his wide mouth.
Young Denny nodded, smiled faintly as he rose to his feet to meet the announcer, who crossed and placed one hand on his shoulder and introduced him.
Beg pardon for the omission, Mr. Bolton," he added, and he smiled boyishly.
With what interest they watched the microscopic midshipmite, listened to Rafe as his sweet voice melodiously told the story of his hapless love, and smiled on pretty Josephine, who was a regular bluebird without the scream.
Or a pan to bake it in," added Gwen; and then allsmiled at the dilemma they foresaw.
Violante smiledon her father, glanced uneasily towards Randal's grave brow, and went slowly towards the house.
The ladies smiled at what they considered a mere pleasantry; but Josephine repeated the remark with such earnestness as to induce them to ask for the story.
Saints have been calm while stretched upon the rack, And Guatimozin smiled on burning coals; But never yet did housewife notable Greet with a smile a rainy washing-day.
Merci du compliment, Monsieur," smiled Miss Ray, with sparkling eyes and the prettiest of courtesies.
Wells came and smiledon him, and Miss Porter beamed, and still he was not happy--for Maidie came not.
Loving arms, and eyes that smiled through their sorrow, welcomed him when the little chap returned to them.
And then Estella came over to me, and smiled and blushed again, and whispered: "Christina is delighted with the plan.
She smiled and made light of it; then I spoke of the house and the garden, and the blacksmith shop, and how grateful we all were to her.
She looked at us both quite boldly, without shrinking, and smiled a little.
Sanford came up with the rubber, smiled like a nice boy, and walked with her to the Subway.
Her breath caught, shesmiled back at him fearfully.
She smiled appreciatively, and tried to get in a tactful remark about a position.
They had no personal interest in her, none of them, except her classmate, Miss Moynihan, who smiled at her and went out to lunch with her.
Una really enjoyed the acting; for a moment Phil was her companion in play; and when the trippers had gone rustling out to view other haunts of vice she smiled at Phil unrestrainedly.
He seized her arm, which prickled to the touch of his fingers, rushed her down the Subway steps, and while he bought their tickets they smiled at each other.
He smiled at her, directly, rather forlornly, proud of her praise.
Una smiledat a lively photograph of two bunnies in a basket.
All the time he kept up comment at which Una smiled doubtfully, not quite sure whether it was meant for her or not: "Now what the doggone doggonishness did I ever do with those doggone notes, anyway?
As often as they detected themselves in this thought, they smiled at it; for might not each neighbour say the same of them as constituting a part of the surrounding world?
She even smiled when the others laughed at the ridiculous stories with which the children had assaulted her imagination.
She often wondered if ever lady loved her husband as her young mistress did; and she smiled to herself to see the welcome that beamed upon Hester's whole face when Hope came to take his seat beside her on the sofa.
Margaret smiled too; but she said it would be quite another thing when the family were settled, and when it should have become a habit to spend the morning hours alone; and to this Maria fully agreed.
Dr Levitt smiled as he remarked that he thought Miss Ibbotson was likely to be the last person to point out that spot to other people, as well as to forget it herself.
Margaret, I believe you are the only person who has smiled at this.
She smiled smiles full of meaning and assent in return for Mrs Grey's winks about Hester's beauty; and really cheered Hester with accounts of how good everybody was at Deerbrook.
Hester smiled gently, but made no reply, and did not appear to notice the proffered hand.
Instantly came the reflection that Percy Gryce was not irretrievably lost; and she smiled to think of the excitement of recapturing him from Evie Van Osburgh.
She supposed that Mr. Gryce had at last found means to escape from his predicament, and she smiled at the significance of his coming to join her instead of beating an instant retreat to the fire-side.
He smiled at the whirl of metaphor with which he was trying to build up a defence against the influences of the last hour.
But this characteristic command seemed to reestablish their former relations; and Lily smiled at the thought that her friend had probably summoned her in order to hear about the Brys' entertainment.
She did, at least, a great deal to adorn it; and as he watched the bright security with which she bore herself, he smiled to think that he should have fancied her in need of help.
She smiled at him across the tea-pot which she was holding up to be filled.
She smiled and let him in: they went into the garden.
Nobody could be more clear-sighted than he, or less easily taken in by people, when he was away from them: but nobody could be more naïvely confiding than he when he was with a woman whose eyes smiled kindly at him.
In spite of his embarrassment the young man smiled at this unexpected question, and replied in the negative.
Antoinette smiled as she heard her brother's merry voice.
He raised his hands wearily, smiled bitterly, and left her.
She was a pretty, rather florid woman, and she smiled sweetly, but stood on her dignity when she heard why he had come.
And he smiled at the notion of an Eighteenth of Brumaire.
Christophe was engrossed in catching at the lovable quality of the man as it was revealed to him in that fleeting moment of embarrassment, and he only smiled in answer.
He went and shook hands with a lady who was passing and smiled grimacingly.
He sat down at the table again, sat in silence, and smiled dreamily.
She smiledall that she could not say, a smile of boundless tenderness.
He sighed, opened his eyes, saw his sister's face leaning over him: she smiledsadly and caressed his face with her hand.
Abel smiled just exactly in that way and so Cain killed him, and if you're asking me, he got exactly what was coming to him.
He promised to postpone delivery until I had taken title to some land somewhere; and then he smiled his all-ivory smile and released me from captivity, and took his departure.
He may not have had any more teeth than some people have, but he had a way of presenting his when he smiled or when he spoke, or even when his face was in repose, which gave him the effect of being practically all teeth.
She smiledat his illuminated, awe-stricken, yearning face.
She smiled slowly, with parted, tremulous lips and shining eyes.
When the New Yorker returned from letting Miss Harley out of the house, he sat down in a chair beside his friend's bed, lit a cigar, tilted his head far back, and smiled at the ceiling.
The Englishman smiledand nodded, mumbled some ghosts of words, and then, under the spell of the beef tea and brandy inside him, and the heat of the fire on his body, sank again to sleep.
Wigmore smiled at his servant, then glanced around the room, and tapped his forehead suggestively with a finger.
Frost looked at the box closely and smiled as he noted how neatly the lock was concealed—even the keyhole, if one there was, being out of sight.
He smiled as he turned to his companion, whose eyes were fixed intently on the location of the silk covering which held the treasury notes.
Still, it was so remote a chance that he smiled as he considered it.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "smiled" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
