Word: smile
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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That answer with a smile of luminous peace...
...before you, and at last, to your infinite satisfaction, you succeed in making the enemy come to rest. You are very much relieved and considerably set up at the success of your stratagem. You feel that you have shown a deep knowledge of cause and effect in nature. You smile complacently at your friends on shore who are breathlessly watching you, and you are resolved that they shall see you calm, cool, and collected. You think the battle over. Alas! you know not the diabolical wiles of the monster with which you have to deal; you know not the depths...
...should you by chance drop a smile...
...seats in front of us, there was one of those honest, real old-fashioned bald-heads, with about five hairs above each ear and all the rest a glittering expanse. Now, it has always been a theory of mine that if you can get a young lady to smile at what you say, you can soon get her to smile...
...been chatting gayly for some time, and then had fallen into thoughtful silence. Presently she said, with ever so faint a smile...