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In a hundred ways I pictured her called up her beauty, her delicacy, her innocence, her grace, the refined softness of her bearing, the sweet purity of her smile, the high dignity of her thoughts and then ground my teeth as I placed against them the solitary image my mind consented to limn of him brawling dandy with fashionable smirk and false blue eyes, flushed with wine, and proud of no better achievement than throwing a smith in a drunken wrestling-bout.
He was a slender, almost wand-slim young man, whose pleased smirk said that he, too, was about to put something over on the notorious Free Traders. Jellico studied him for a couple of long seconds during which the hum of Salariki voices was the threatening buzz of a disturbed wasps' nest. There was no way out of this to refuse conflict was to lose all they had won with the clansmen.
And I have seen a pert little whipper-snapper ask a venerable clergyman what he thought of a certain outrageous lay-preacher, and receive the clergyman's reply, that he thought most unfavorably of many of the lay-preacher's doings, with a self-conceited smirk that seemed to say to the venerable clergyman, "I have been reckoning you up: you won't do."
Smirk, who smiled. My learned friend has, indeed, laboured to make the worse appear the better cause to convert into a trifle one of the most outrageous acts that ever disgraced a human being or a civilised country. I admire the bombastic eloquence with which my learned friend introduced his most distinguished client his most delicate minded sensitive client!
And it happened, sir, that you ran across the cord connected with the trigger of the flashlight gun." "Is this the truth you are telling me, boy?" demanded the puzzled hermit. "Will, do you happen to have that proof with you?" called out Frank. Upon hearing this, the other hastened up, though there was a satisfied smirk on his face, as though he had accomplished something daring.
It's all of you: heart, mind, body: the whole lovely trinity of yourself. I mean to wage unabated war against all these forces that are trying to stifle your laughter into the pious smirk of the pharisee. There's more of what God wants the world to feel in one peal of your laughter than in all the psalms that this whole people ever whined through their noses.
"These new lodgings would make a fair kennel, wouldn't they, Burgess? if a man isn't too particular about his dog." The servant entered with a nasty smirk. "Yes, sir; I seen a rat last night." "He's not the only one, is he, Burgess," yawned Berkley. "Oh, hell! I've got to dress. Did you paint that bathtub? I guess you did, the place reeks like a paint shop. Anyway, it kills less desirable aromas.
One of them made this the subject of traditional facetious remarks, which he addressed to the Justice, who replied to them with a smirk. He walked along behind the young men, and the Hunter placed himself at his side. Thus two men walked together, who on this day were cherishing the most radically opposed feelings.
In Buck's terminology, it was identified as "The Centre Street mashers": those pimply, weak-faced, bad-eyed young men who congregate at prominent corners every afternoon, especially Saturdays, to smirk at the working-girls, and to pass, wherever they could, from their murmured, "Hello, Kiddo," and "Where you goin', baby?" to less innocent things.
"This is just another plagiarism, I fear," observed T'an Ch'un, with an ironic smirk. "It's because he has a jade himself," Tai-yue forthwith reasoned within her mind, "that he asks me whether I have one or not. No; I haven't one," she replied. "That jade of yours is besides a rare object, and how could every one have one?"
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