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The facts he particularly implored the King to keep to himself, the vague laudation he as urgently requested him to repeat to those interested. Perpetually dropping small innuendos like pebbles into the depths of his master's suspicious soul, he knew that at last the waters of bitterness would overflow, but he turned an ever-smiling face upon those who were to be his victims.
For the mother's part we have several matrons to choose from; the eldest daughter of Epitropes appears to me fitted for the part of Aphrodite; she is wonderfully lovely." "Is she stupid too?" asked Euergetes. "That is also an attribute of the ever-smiling Cypria." "Enough so, I think, for our purpose," laughed Cleopatra. "But where are we to find such a Hebe as you have described, Lysias?
She was a mountain of rotundity, a conjunction of palpitating spheres, but the soul that dwelt in this painfully ponderous body was as mellow with affection and kindliness as a ripe pear, and the voice that proceeded from her ever-smiling lips was a hoarse and dove-like coo of love.
Which of my daughters am I to understand is thus favoured by the kind intentions of Mr Boffin and his lady? 'Don't you see? the ever-smiling Mrs Boffin put in. 'Naturally, Miss Bella, you know. 'Oh-h! said Mrs Wilfer, with a severely unconvinced look.
His sleep to him is sweet After a hearty meal; Neither grief nor worry The farmer-man doth feel. He rises very early To start betimes his toil, Healthy and very happy On his ever-smiling soil. O blessings on our czar, Czar Nikolai, then be, Who granted us this gladness, And bade the Jews be free. Alas, this joy was of short duration!
This story was told me by the ever-smiling guide Asmani, and was corroborated by other former mariners of the lake whom I had with me.
She had an ever-smiling, pink and white face, mischievous blue eyes, and a curious snub-nose; when she smiled, little dimples formed in her cheeks and her mouth was ever ready to laugh. When she did laugh, her double row of white teeth sparkled; in a word she was as ugly as the devil. All three were busy knitting as we entered. When the door opened, they all put down their knitting.
At first all was quiet, but soon Nekhludoff heard from behind the foreman's house two angry women's voices interrupting each other, and now and then the voice of the ever-smiling foreman. Nekhludoff listened. "My strength's at an end. "But she only got in for a moment," said another voice. "Give it her back, I tell you. Why do you torment the beast, and the children, too, who want their milk?"
For in all the wild activity of his changing movements Gaspare never lost his coquettish expression, the look of seductive mischief that seemed to invite the whole world to be merry and mad as he was. His ever-smiling lips and ever-smiling eyes defied fatigue, and his young body grace made a living, pulsing, aspiring reality suggested the tireless intensity of a flame.
In the same motion, he leaped backward, drawing from his torn pocket an automatic pistol. Brice, unarmed, stood for an instant looking into the squat little weapon's black muzzle, and at the gleaming black eyes in the ever-smiling white face behind it. He was not afraid.
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