"Grimace" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... Joel plunged into the first one under his hand. It proved to be the Latin grammar, and with a grimace, he found the page, and resting his elbows on the table, he seized each side of his stubby head with his hands. "I'll hang on to my hair," he said, and ...
— Five Little Peppers Midway • Margaret Sidney
... advance, and once more I was hoisted on my horse, while Arcoll's Kaffir tied my bridle to his own. A Kaffir cannot wink, but he has a way of slanting his eyes which does as well, and as we moved on he would turn his head to me with this strange grimace. ...
— Prester John • John Buchan
... have I married?" was his next question, with a grotesque grimace at the demure young person ...
— Idle Hour Stories • Eugenia Dunlap Potts
... endeavoured that she shall be neither a water-carrier nor a servant, but the woman who has just drawn water for the house, the water for her husband's and her children's soup; that she shall seem to be carrying neither more nor less than the weight of the full buckets; that beneath the sort of grimace which is natural on account of the strain on her arms, and the blinking of her eyes caused by the light, one may see a look of rustic kindliness on her face. I have always shunned with a kind of horror everything ...
— Pictures Every Child Should Know • Dolores Bacon
... (Here she made a little grimace of disgust.) "I knew beforehand I had to face the plate—but the contents! Where did ...
— Ladies-In-Waiting • Kate Douglas Wiggin
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