I still say David Bamber for Varys...he could pull off "simpering" very well!. From Wordnik.com. [Who let the dogs out?] Reference
Uncommon good-humor, and an insipid simpering, or laugh. From Wordnik.com. [Select Temperance Tracts] Reference
Admiral Pendarves simpering eternally over his private fun. From Wordnik.com. [McClure's Magazine, Vol 31, No 2, June 1908] Reference
"You are so polite, Judge," replied Mrs. Perkins, simpering. From Wordnik.com. [The Lost Hunter A Tale of Early Times] Reference
Carol called her a sweet old simpering soul, and so she was. From Wordnik.com. [Prudence of the Parsonage] Reference
He is the most simpering, mild-mannered, and perfect gentleman. From Wordnik.com. [With Rimington] Reference
Instead, you pledged allegiance to a simpering woman and her get. From Wordnik.com. [Shield of Thunder]
At least Elayne was frowning at him slightly instead of simpering. From Wordnik.com. [The Fires of Heaven]
Yet the inhabitants were no simple and simpering dwellers in Eden. From Wordnik.com. [Two in Time]
She is now simpering and blushing and saying pretty nothings between. From Wordnik.com. [Gladys, the Reaper] Reference
The Tairen woman gave him a simpering smile, but it faltered weakly. From Wordnik.com. [The Path of Daggers]
He looked up at the dais, narrowing his eyes at the simpering Prince. From Wordnik.com. [The Glass Books of the Dream Eaters]
Within minutes, she had turned drunken louts into simpering crybabies. From Wordnik.com. [One Red Rose]
You're simpering at some hidden invention of your own, and you know it. From Wordnik.com. [Miss Pat at School] Reference
Greuze's simpering maidens; there could be no other like her -- she was. From Wordnik.com. [Vera Nevill Or, Poor Wisdom's Chance] Reference
He had kissed giggling cousins and simpering aunts and coy great-aunts. From Wordnik.com. [Unforgiven]
Hayden halfway hoped the simpering creature would fall in love with him. From Wordnik.com. [One Night Of Scandal]
Jeff was practically simpering today when he said what a hard test it was. From Wordnik.com. [Angels Carry the Sun excerpt: Chapter One, In the Woods] Reference
They turned into simpering girls around Perrin, eager to please, but with her. From Wordnik.com. [Lord of Chaos]
Stockily built mechanics swaggered along with their simpering, gaudily dressed lady loves. From Wordnik.com. [A Son of the City A Story of Boy Life] Reference
If I had asked that question of some simpering girl a few years older than I-- the average. From Wordnik.com. [The Bacillus of Beauty A Romance of To-day] Reference
But there is a new kid on the small screen that makes them all look like simpering choirboys. From Wordnik.com. [The Webbed Wonder] Reference
Her lips were set in a somewhat simpering smile, and her voice was soft with a view to effect. From Wordnik.com. [Flint His Faults, His Friendships and His Fortunes] Reference
There is the smiling, simpering girl who comes forward gorgeously arrayed in light blue satin. From Wordnik.com. [Lazy Thoughts of a Lazy Girl Sister of that "Idle Fellow."] Reference
Mrs. Hennessy said when all the explanations and curtsying and bowing and simpering were over. From Wordnik.com. [Unlikely Duchess]
She was looking behind at everyone with a simpering smile, as if they were there to honor her. From Wordnik.com. [The Joy Luck Club]
"I'm going out," I say, and I pretend to ignore her simpering reply "You won't be late, will you?". From Wordnik.com. [A Night of Furversion] Reference
I saw nothing of that peculiar expression of mouth the sculptors give him, bordering on simpering. From Wordnik.com. [Little Memoirs of the Nineteenth Century] Reference
"Very few; and I would not escort any of those simpering little damsels usually seen at assemblies.". From Wordnik.com. [The Youth of Jefferson A Chronicle of College Scrapes at Williamsburg, in Virginia, A.D. 1764] Reference
"The lady on the left is simpering; and, oh! here is a tiger rug," stumbling over a head on the ground. From Wordnik.com. [When the Birds Begin to Sing] Reference
The house squatted on its haunches, simpering like an old dog, hiding behind curtains of grass and weeds. From Wordnik.com. [The Museum] Reference
To this end she is the prostituted "lady," with simpering words, and smiles, and glamour of refined deceit. From Wordnik.com. [Searchlights on Health: Light on Dark Corners A Complete Sexual Science and a Guide to Purity and Physical Manhood, Advice To Maiden, Wife, And Mother, Love, Courtship, And Marriage] Reference
But she was not so much to blame as her parents for her simpering and tossing the head with overstocked affectation. From Wordnik.com. [A Woman's Life-Work — Labors and Experiences] Reference
Until the smiles began to look like simpering stupidity instead of merely a makeshift mask over knowing or fearing too much. From Wordnik.com. [Reunion] Reference
Marian, who was simpering at some remark that Mr. Henry Hammond was making to her in a voice too low for the others to hear. From Wordnik.com. [Grace Harlowe's Senior Year at High School] Reference
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