Word: smile
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...this be the first time that she hath disported herself in the giddy dance at the house of one that is known unto her; and lo, the scoffs of the maiden are as a broken reed, and the young man presenteth a sub-Freshman, and leaveth with a smile, and loudly he sweareth that no emphasized maiden from the land that is towards the setting sun shall again get the drop on him. And lo, the weather was exceeding cold...
...smiled a quizzing, knowing smile...
...very short while you will change that smile...
...stood before him like a timid deer, and then, in a mighty torrent of emotion, flung himself at my feet, exclaiming. "You air a cherubim, an' I ain't no pirick, but an' uncultered son o' the soil. Thet's wut I am, honest Injun! Will yer smile on me? Will yer lemme adore...
...polite gentleman invited me to call on him at nine the following morning, saying he would like to have me meet His Honor the Judge and a few friends. The Judge, the Great Mogul, the High Muckamuck, was quite enough; he must have been a foreigner, for with frigid smile and withering glance he said: "Ignorantia non excuset; four dollars and nine cents, please." I told him I never spoke the language in my life, but supposed it was all right, paid him for his exertions, and hoped he had not dislocated any thing...