Word: smiling
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...where Amy and the Yale man were standing, and introduced me. "Your fame has gone before you," said she, "and I have heard Cousin Dick here tell about you so much that I feel well acquainted with you." I mentally voted my chum a remarkably good fellow, and perhaps smiled a little smile of satisfaction, as the Yale man stalked off, looking as sour as if we had won the last race at New London. We waltzed (not the Yale man and I) and promenaded, and promenaded and waltzed until, before the evening was gone, my pulmonary organ had become...
...scarce know how to smile...
...their turn shall win me with a smile...
...really like to smile...
...tumble off into the water?" "Oh, don't ask so many questions!" His conversation then became rather personal, and, staring intently at me, he said, "Aunty, aunty, ain't that little boy got pretty blue pants?" Blushes and "Hush, hush!" from the unfortunate relative, and a pervasive smile among the passengers. "Where do you s'pose he goes to school?" continued he. Reply inaudible. "Do they spank little boys at Harvard Collig?" The smiles at this period became audible, but as I have read the "Robbers" in my German elective, and sat under the sarcastic professor of themes...