Word: smiling
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...joined a group of young men and maidens sitting in the sun. His girl was among them. She was sitting on the railing holding on to a post. Diggles wished he were a post, but he soon banished the thought as unworthy of him. Patting on his most winsome smile he proposed an expedition to a neighboring sawmill. Ah, who could have foreseen the consequence of this little trip? But Diggles was a deep, deep...
...thus I dilated the entire morning on Jack's all-pervading facetiousness, and I had so thoroughly excited the risibility of those nine girls that the mere anticipation of his coming put them into frequent ecstasies of merriment. I knew Jack would be appreciated. The girls seemed prepared to smile...
...smile of expectation that illumined their faces, and consequently in order to undeceive them I placed particular emphasis on his name as I introduced him, but it was evident that in their impatience for the entertainment to begin they had not heeded the name...
...gasped poor George, while his eyes grew bloodshot, and his hands writhed in and out of his coat-pockets. This developed the smile into a merry rippling laugh. This helped the matter but little, but George made a second attempt...
With a lammy, clammy smile that was bland, bland, bland...