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Jones put that down a gentleman at large. And this is Ricardo." The pock-marked man, lying prostrate in another long chair, made a grimace, as if something had tickled the end of his nose, but did not come out of his supineness. "Martin Ricardo, secretary. You don't want any more of our history, do you? Eh, what? Occupation? Put down, well tourists.
But," with a comic grimace, "it's dollars to doughnuts that both of 'em will be stone-broke. I know something about that innocent little game called roulette." "But if she's broke, what the devil shall we do?" Smith put this question in no calm frame of mind. "Forty dollars; it's a heap just now." "She said she had another plan," said Worth.
Is this the real feeling of London society, or is it only a fashion, a sham, a grimace? 'I think it is a very natural feeling, Soame Rivers replied, with the greatest promptitude. 'And represents the true feeling of what are called the better classes of London? 'Why, certainly.
On many occasions this has a singular and striking effect, but it degenerates into mere empty form and grimace in cases where the defunct has had the misfortune to live unbeloved and die unlamented.
We are on a terrace at the top of the great steps, up which the crowd continues to flock, and at the foot of a portico which stands erect with the rigid massiveness of a colossus against the dark night sky; at the foot also of a monster, who stares down upon us, with his big stony eyes, his cruel grimace and smile.
"I am going down in the East End." "Adventuring?" "More or less," he admitted. Lady Cynthia became beautiful. She was always beautiful when she was not tired. "Take me with you, please," she begged. He shook his head. "Not to be done!" "Don't shake your head like that," she enjoined, with a little grimace. "People will think I am trying to borrow money from you and that you are refusing me!
In appearance they were little better than savages; children even of ten years of age, lean, mop-headed creatures, were to be seen running about absolutely naked. As Mark Twain said, "they wore nothing but a smile," but the smile was a grimace to try to extract coppers from the traveller.
David laughed gleefully. "Oh, of course, REALLY I do lots of things, only I don't count those any more. 'Horas non numero nisi serenas, you knew," he quoted pleasantly, smiling into the man's astonished eyes. "Jack, what was that what he said?" whispered the little girl. "It sounded foreign. IS he foreign?" "You've got me, Jill," retorted the man, with a laughing grimace.
"Ah well, never mind, I'll go anyhow," said her father composedly. "I'll go with you," declared Miss Judy firmly. "I'll run the launch." As she passed by Katherine on her way out of the bungalow she flashed her a meaning look, which Katherine answered with a sympathetic grimace. In the morning when camp assembled for breakfast there was Cousin Egmont sitting beside Dr.
A laughable expression of the face, then, is one that will make us think of something rigid and, so to speak, coagulated, in the wonted mobility of the face. What we shall see will be an ingrained twitching or a fixed grimace. It may be objected that every habitual expression of the face, even when graceful and beautiful, gives us this same impression of something stereotyped?
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