Word: smile
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...natural sentiment of personal devotion to the teacher who calls out your better powers. It is a great delight to serve an intellectual master. We Americans are but too apt to lose this happiness. German and French students get it. If ever in after years you come to smile at the youthful reverence you paid, believe me, it will be with tears in your eyes...
...this point the fair Gray had an unusually pleasant smile. One could not see her pretty face and trusting eyes without wishing to stroke her softly, as she lovingly replied: "O my dear Tom, I so wanted to tell you, now I hope we shall see you often? You know, I am engaged to Willie Symperson, and he lives only next door to you. It will be so pleasant to be such near neighbors, won't it? It is only from to-day, but we thought it best to have it out immediately...
...wonder if none wonder why I smile...
...second draught a holy smile...
Next day, when dawn's bright smile looked down...