smileless

In the pictures always were her mother, a handsome, fair woman who looked as if she stepped out of a Howard Hawks movie and should have been named Slim, and her father, whose military heritage seemed inscribed in the leather of a Spartan shield that comprised the perpetually tanned hide of his smileless face.

A Bob Lee Swagger eBook Boxed Set Stephen Hunter 2009

In the pictures always were her mother, a handsome, fair woman who looked as if she stepped out of a Howard Hawks movie and should have been named Slim, and her father, whose military heritage seemed inscribed in the leather of a Spartan shield that comprised the perpetually tanned hide of his smileless face.

A Bob Lee Swagger eBook Boxed Set Stephen Hunter 2009

In the pictures always were her mother, a handsome, fair woman who looked as if she stepped out of a Howard Hawks movie and should have been named Slim, and her father, whose military heritage seemed inscribed in the leather of a Spartan shield that comprised the perpetually tanned hide of his smileless face.

A Bob Lee Swagger eBook Boxed Set Stephen Hunter 2009

The references to Biblical plagues and destruction sent down from God do not mark out Karrer as Lot or a similar figure of Biblical misfortune; it is more likely the town itself is Gomorrah, smote for the sins of its inhabitants, plagued with gray ugly weather and congenital ennui and smileless faces.

Damnation Ed Howard 2009

She came forward, smileless, with disapproval written all over her face, said most coldly, ‘Good morning, Mr. Clemens,’ and passed on out.

The Five of Hearts Patricia O'Toole 2008

She came forward, smileless, with disapproval written all over her face, said most coldly, ‘Good morning, Mr. Clemens,’ and passed on out.

The Five of Hearts Patricia O'Toole 2008

N.N. Calmly and gracefully thou movest along the path of life, tearless and smileless, and scarce a heedless glance of indifferent attention ruffles thy calm.

Dream tales and prose poems 2006

Poor, modest, bored, unhappy Grant stood smileless…nervously seized each hand as it came, and while he gave it a single shake, looked not upon its owner, but threw a quick look-out for the next.

Mark Twain Ron Powers 2005

Poor, modest, bored, unhappy Grant stood smileless…nervously seized each hand as it came, and while he gave it a single shake, looked not upon its owner, but threw a quick look-out for the next.

Mark Twain Ron Powers 2005

The performers in this “ging-a-ring” then clapped hands with prolonged ejaculations of o-o-o-oh, stamped and shuffled forwards, moving the body from the hips downwards, whilst H.R. H. alone stood stationary and smileless as a French demoiselle of the last century, who came to the ball not to causer but to danser.

Two Trips to Gorilla Land and the Cataracts of the Congo 2003