Word: smilingly
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Dates: during 1910-1910
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...equal individuality in its use. A peculiarity of both was the habit of delaying speech for an instant, while the mind was working and the telling sentence was framing itself for utterance--a brief interval during which the lips would gather slightly, as for a sort of smile, and the eyes and faces take on an indescribable expression of great charm. Then would burst forth one of those longer or shorter epigrammatic or aphoristic sayings which their friends all recall so well, full of meaning, full of kindliness and humor, never sarcastic, but always keen. Occasionally, too, they were full...
...which he is to return, and the young prince, idealizing in the boyish delight of new freedom, all that he finds there. It is German, too, when it turns the old sentimentalist into the tipsy sharer in student routs and makes the young prince believe that Kaethie's practised smile signifies so much that is personal and intimate. Perhaps it is most German when it turns all the emotions of the young man, set by unkind circumstance over his principality, into a haunting "sehnsucht" that sends him back to Heidelberg--and to disillusion...