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Example sentences for "trifle grim"

  • Ingleby's lips were set, and his face a trifle grim.

  • Then as he turned to Esmond his face grew a trifle grim.

  • One or two were evidently uneasy, others a trifle grim, but there was a portentous murmur from the dusty rabble farther back in the shadow.

  • Appleby drew in a deep breath, and his face grew a trifle grim.

  • He had more than a suspicion that it would not be credited, but his face was a trifle grim when he looked up at his comrade.

  • They walked back to the hacienda, passed the sugar mill, and followed the little tram-line that wound through the cane until once more Harper came to a standstill, and his face grew a trifle grim.

  • His face grew a trifle grim, but Appleby was glancing out towards the saffron glare of sunset on the ocean's rim.

  • Jefferson said nothing, but his face was a trifle grim, and he straightened himself wearily when one of the Spaniards rose and moved into the light.

  • The American's face grew a trifle grim, and he looked at him with half-closed eyes.

  • Barrington's face grew a trifle grim as he nodded.

  • Winston's face was a trifle grim, though he laughed.

  • Winston's hands closed on the reins, and his face grew a trifle grim as he said, "From the point of view you evidently take, I presume it is.

  • It grew a trifle grim, however, when he looked back once from a bare hill shoulder, and saw a feeble light blink out far down in the hollow.

  • Brooke was a trifle grim in face, but he laughed.

  • Witham's hands closed on the reins, and his face grew a trifle grim as he said, "From the point of view you evidently take, I presume it is.

  • Witham's face was a trifle grim, though he laughed.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    abide here; butyric acid; enquire after; first glance; good spoonful; having seen; les jeunes; like ourselves; meet again; mere natural; never seen; private estate; procuring food; separate article; sexual life; strict justice; trifle astonished; trifle difficult; trifle grim; trifle less; trifle more; using tobacco; vill kill; whole heart; will soon; wrought iron