And she smoothed the gingham over her knees with a true feminine hand and a childish consciousness of having on her "good clothes.
He took Avery's second letter from his pocket again and smoothed it on his knee.
Next morning, before the sun had smoothed the gray frost from the weathered timbers of the dam, Avery slid the big canoe into the water, and David and Swickey loaded in the various bags and bundles.
I've just had breakfast, but that trout makes me hungry," he said, pointing to a rippling circle that widened and smoothed out in the breadth of the brown water.
The involuntary smile upon her lips smoothed her forehead as a ray of sun dissipates a cloud.
They were slender little trees trimmed at the butt into a broad, thin, wedge shaped point, which was carefully smoothed by rubbing it with sandstone, so that no offensive splinters should present themselves to the lips of the dancers.
They smoothedthe surface with the broad oaken battens used in weaving.
Every day, when the weather was clear, he would hang it, well smoothed and combed, on the outside wall, and when he left home he carefully put it away in a safe place.
At last the visitor was allowed to see what the cupboard contained--a carefully combed and smoothed dark brown fox skin.
It was but a frail hope, and quickly dashed; for when I had smoothed the creases and spread out the piece of paper in the candle-light, there was nothing to be seen except a few verses from the Psalms of David.
The knees of twenty generations had worn the pavement; their feet had hollowed the steps; their shoulders had smoothed the columns.
The same slender shape, the same cunning, fierce look, smoothed over with a plausible air.
When they reached the study, she smoothed the cushion of a rocking-chair, and made the old woman sit down in it.
As he afterwards told Gwen, he was surprised at the way in which the actual facts smoothed the way for misrepresentation.
Then he removed his hat and coat, hung them carefully in their proper place, smoothed his hair, and walked straight into the parlour.
Rising, he glanced at himself in the mirror, settled his tie, and smoothed his hair; for the appearance of a lady was an unusual phenomenon at his rooms.
Her head sank upon his shoulder, and she burst into tears of joy, while he kissed her fair face, and smoothed her hair tenderly.
She smoothed down the scant calico skirt with her brown little fingers.
That night he carefully smoothed out a civilian suit and placed it on a hanger at the head of his cot.
He took out of his pocket a crumpled sheet of paper, smoothed and carefully refolded, covered with a writing not unlike that of Frobisher ii.
He captured the paper by an insistent gesture andsmoothed it out with fingers that trembled.
His manicured fingers did lift towards his face, but he changed his mind and pulled a silk handkerchief out of his sleeve and carefully smoothed his hair back from his forehead.
Judson had lost some of his ranginess, his angularities had filled out, and his sharp face had smoothed and rounded, until he looked younger than ever he did in Kelvinhaugh days.
Jean Valjean took Fantine's head in both his hands, and arranged it on the pillow as a mother might have done for her child; then he tied the string of her chemise, and smoothed her hair back under her cap.
He would have gone to its assistance, and picked it up and smoothed it, the more so as he felt that he had been beaten.
When a new boy goes to school, his way is smoothedvery much at first by the cakes and pocket-money he brings with him.
The lines, the tenseness, the shade, the age faded out of her face; the deep-set frown smoothed itself out of her brow and it became young.
Building a railroad grew to be an exact and wonderful science with the men of the Union Pacific, from engineers down to the laborers who ballasted and smoothed the road-bed.
The fondness with which she smoothed them betrayed her delight in their acquisition.
She smoothedout the blotter and patted a few papers--anything, Jane thought, to kill time.
Their walls are so perfectly constructed as to appear externally like solid rocks smoothed and rounded.
The Count of Castile was, however, too powerful a vassal to continue long on peaceable terms with a sovereign, an alliance with whose family had more than ever smoothed the progressive ascent of his pretensions.
Presently four or five good little mice, whom I had not observed before, with their faces very clean, and their fur smoothed down very sleekly, made their complaint in a weak kind of utterance.
He picked up a crumpled sheet of notepaper, smoothed out the creases, and handed it to her.
Here's your hat--I've smoothed out the worst of the dents.
He next smoothed out the creased silk and studied minutely the blotches, which were heaviest about the left breast and shoulder.
The colonel smoothed things over and it ended in a magnum of champagne being ordered.
He had thus had no opportunity to generalize his kind; and he knew nothing whatever of his own personal appearance except the partial hints he may have gained when he smoothed his feathers with his beak after his bath in the morning.
How many harsh and uncharitable feelings against Catholics were smoothed away or softened down by their instrumentality!
She worked hard all day without minding the trouble, and when it was finished she smoothed it off with the kitchen chopper.
As he stroked his beard the white hairs all came out, and by-and-by the black ones too; the wrinkles on his face were smoothed away, and in a few months he had the beardless face of a boy of fifteen or sixteen.
I unclasped her cloak and untied her bonnet, and took them from her: she ungloved her hands hastily and smoothed her hair as she went along the hall.
The face was elongated, the cheeks hollow, the hair smoothed down below the ears.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "smoothed" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
