"Smiler" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... inscrutably; that is one of the specialties of the sex. The inscrutable smile of a saleslady in an exclusive Fifth Avenue shop when a customer asks to look at something a little cheaper would make Mona Lisa seem a mere amateur as an inscrutable smiler. Quite a number of us remained perfectly calm when some gentlemen stole Miss Lisa out of the Louvre, and we expect to remain equally calm ...
— Cobb's Bill-of-Fare • Irvin Shrewsbury Cobb
... Bill before the House of Commons. "An amiable, white-haired nonentity for the rest of the world—who only mention him to marvel that such a man was ever admitted to an English Cabinet—to us he is the 'smiler with the knife,' the assassin of the hopes of women, the reptile in the path. The Bill is weakening every day in the House, and on the night of the second reading it will receive its 'coup de grace' from the hand of Sir Wilfrid Lang. Women ...
— Delia Blanchflower • Mrs. Humphry Ward
... forward on an elbow, and stared. The stare was returned. The senator began to smile. Hugh did not. The smile grew. Hugh's gaze was fixed. The smiler smiled yet more, but in vain. Abruptly ...
— Gideon's Band - A Tale of the Mississippi • George W. Cable
... brighter sphere; Having no sin, asked not to be forgiven; Ne'er guessed at God nor ever dreamed of heaven. Now he has passed away, so much of love Goes from our life, without one hope above! When a dog dies there's nothing to be said But—kiss me, darling!—dear old Smiler's dead. ...
— The Home Book of Verse, Vol. 1 (of 4) • Various
... to pedigree Her portents, slurred his surname sweetly; So up my smiler tripped—to me ...
— Punch, Or The London Charivari, Vol. 100, April 4, 1891 • Various |
