Her simper was not sincere. From LearnThat.org.
These subjects always make women simper, at least. From Wordnik.com. [Clarissa Harlowe] Reference
Season with a small pinch of paprika and let it simper. From Wordnik.com. [Skiddoo!] Reference
"How interesting!" observes Dora, with a little simper. From Wordnik.com. [The Haunted Chamber A Novel] Reference
Season with a small pinch of tobasco and let it simper. From Wordnik.com. [The Silly Syclopedia] Reference
It was all received with a simper of feeble incredulity. From Wordnik.com. [Uncle Silas] Reference
Sarah sees the simper and never makes that remark again. From Wordnik.com. [This Side of Paradise] Reference
We must drape him, and give him a certain conventional simper. From Wordnik.com. [The History of Pendennis] Reference
“I always embrace opportunity,” replied Miss Sprig with a simper. From Wordnik.com. [How to Cook Husbands] Reference
Ill-temper cannot hide itself under the simper of assumed amiability. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 12, No. 69, July, 1863] Reference
"I'm sure I don't know, Mr. Denton," replied the girl, with a simper. From Wordnik.com. [For Gold or Soul? The Story of a Great Department Store] Reference
His coarse features writhed in a simper that intensified their ugliness. From Wordnik.com. [Heart of the Blue Ridge] Reference
Nina picked at her gloves in embarrassment as she replied, with a simper. From Wordnik.com. [Miss Dexie A Romance of the Provinces] Reference
She would smile and simper, and talk kindly and gaily enough at first, during. From Wordnik.com. [The Newcomes] Reference
“It is a pretty one,” says my lord, surveying his fingers, with a simper. From Wordnik.com. [The Virginians] Reference
Bullock would gather her starched nurslings and simper back into her carriage. From Wordnik.com. [Vanity Fair] Reference
She hands him a teacup and Robert takes it and raises his pinky with a simper. From Wordnik.com. [The Spirit Upwelling] Reference
She accustoms her face to a simper, which every separate feature in it belies. From Wordnik.com. [Sketches of the Fair Sex, in All Parts of the World] Reference
“Not at all modest,” he said modestly, unable to keep from a modest simper. From Wordnik.com. [Kahawa]
Place all their heads on one side, with the eyes shut, and the proper solemn simper. From Wordnik.com. [The Paris Sketch Book] Reference
How the pretty things would stare at the tricks of the trade, and simper: "Is that right?". From Wordnik.com. [Autographs for Freedom, Volume 2 (of 2) (1854)] Reference
“Return” is suited only to the drawing-room — it is ducal, & says itself with a simper. From Wordnik.com. [Mark Twain: A Biography] Reference
“Come, is Babylon reformed, or have you degenerated?” she added, glancing with a simper at. From Wordnik.com. [Anna Karenina] Reference
But mind is equally out of the question, whether they indulge the horse-laugh, or polite simper. From Wordnik.com. [A Vindication of the Rights of Woman] Reference
He was aware that she had given him his cue to bow and simper and lavish her with pretty speeches. From Wordnik.com. [Beyond the Sunrise]
His countenance was cadaverous and was eternally agitated by something between a grin and a simper. From Wordnik.com. [Wild Wales : Its People, Language and Scenery] Reference
'Do I like Halifax, mamma, do you think?' and she turned to her mother with such an affected simper. From Wordnik.com. [Miss Dexie A Romance of the Provinces] Reference
A slender young woman with dark eyes set slightly too close together, Laurain wore a permanent simper. From Wordnik.com. [Lord of Chaos]
In Mary Ann there was a certain affected simper, and a craving for notice, that I was sorry to observe. From Wordnik.com. [Agnes Grey] Reference
See how they smile and simper, and press their hands to their hearts, and daintily arrange their drop curls!. From Wordnik.com. [The Youth of Jefferson A Chronicle of College Scrapes at Williamsburg, in Virginia, A.D. 1764] Reference
Sarah makes an unsophisticated remark and the faces simper in delight — “How innocent the poor child is!”. From Wordnik.com. [This Side of Paradise] Reference
"My, they must be in a hurry to see us," said Grace, with a simper that sent the girls off into gales of laughter. From Wordnik.com. [The Outdoor Girls in the Saddle Or, The Girl Miner of Gold Run] Reference
“Yes, monsieur, in my country true love can make every kind of sacrifice,” the Duchess was saying, in a simper. From Wordnik.com. [The Ball at Sceaux] Reference
I surveyed them with a self-satisfied simper, stretched my legs a trifle farther, and conversed with my water-pipe. From Wordnik.com. [Personal Narrative of a Pilgrimage to Al-Madinah and Meccah] Reference
University, which he tells with a simper to his neighbor at dinner; and has always the last joke of Mr. Baron Maule. From Wordnik.com. [Mrs. Perkins's Ball] Reference
"Oh! Monsieur Waldmann, how you talk!" returned the girl, with an affected simper and an unsuccessful attempt to blush. From Wordnik.com. [Monte-Cristo's Daughter] Reference
They simper, smirk, gossip over bridal finery; spread this on their arms or shoulders; admire that Look you here Look ye there!. From Wordnik.com. [Sir Charles Grandison] Reference
But then comes that everlasting feminine humility, sneaking up with its simper: 'Is not this presumptuous, selfish, mistaken, wrong?. From Wordnik.com. [The Daughters of Danaus] Reference
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