" "Heiress," he repeated with a cunning leer.

"Waal!" growled one of the men, with an ugly leer, "we didn't hardly expec' ter run inter such luck ez this.

In one of his late satires, The Epistle to Dr. Arbuthnot, he charged Addison with the inclination to "Damn with faint praise, assent with civil leer, And without sneering, teach the rest to sneer.

There is a drunken leer in this beast's eye, an inebriate roll in all his movements, that lead one mechanically to peer into the darkness of his den with the view of seeing what the Bar fixings are like.

In place of courage they flaunted an insolent leer, and the smile intended to convey self-confidence betrayed to a close observer anxiety bordering on panic.

Damn with faint praise, assent with evil leer, And without sneering, teach the rest to sneer.

" "I didn't say we'd go as fur as wedlock," explained Ted, with a wicked leer.

There the red Anger dared the pallid Fear; Next stood Hypocrisy, with holy leer, Soft smiling, and demurely looking down, But hid the dagger underneath the gown: The assassinating wife, the household fiend; And far the blackest there, the traitor-friend.

'And though she found his usage rough, Yet in a man 'twas well enough!' he hummed, with his head on one side and an impudent leer.

They tried to explain their loss to the other inmates, but instead of receiving sympathy for their trouble, only malicious grunts and malevolent leers were their reward.

" He pocketed the money, and showed them, out, standing to look after them with a malicious leer as they disappeared, and jerking his left thumb over his shoulder.

Thad, astonished at Bill's sudden mirth, held the crutch mid-air, and demanded with a malignant leer: "Huh! Laugh, will you?" "Go ahead and break it, but it won't be a circumstance to what I'll do to you.

No señora, porque es muy malo, muy malo leer en la cama.... DOÑA MATILDE.

I am certain of this; he almost told me so himself, not in words, but the mistakable leer he gave her in reply.

She had fine dark eyes, and was young, bold-looking, and handsome; but when she came nearer, the moist pallor of her skin, the slackness of her lower lip and jaw, and an eager and worn expression in her fine eyes, gave her a thirsty, reckless leer that filled Marian with loathing.

There the glutton, and here the sot; now the eye fell on the mean pander or the roystering boon-companion; now on the wit, looking with a roguish leer upon his fair neighbour, or the miserable wretch maudlin in his cups; and again on the knave profiting by the recklessness of those around him.

He had long lank legs, long arms, hands, and fingers, and a very long sickly face, with a drooping nose, and a sly, sarcastic leer, and a great purplish stain over-spreading more than half of one cheek.

"And also the officials of the fight?" Treadwell, with a self-satisfied leer on his face, stepped away from his seconds coming jauntily over.

At a sign from the captain, John, with a shameless leer, stepped forward and stood passively on the grating, while the bareheaded old quarter-master, with his gray hair streaming in the wind, bound his feet to the cross-bars and, stretching out his arms over his head, secured them to the hammock netting above.

The four living fellows looked at each other in rather a ghastly fashion; the dead man contemplating a corner of the roof with a singular and ugly leer.

He had long lank legs, long arms, hands, and fingers, and a very long sickly face, with a drooping nose, and a sly, sarcastic leer, and a great purplish stain over-spreading more than half of one cheek.

He saw Thompson's red eyes fastened upon him, and he turned his face to escape their questioning, stupid leer.

"Casey is not a cautious man," he gurgled with a sudden upward leer.

She had fine dark eyes, and was young, bold-looking, and handsome; but when she came nearer, the moist pallor of her skin, the slackness of her lower lip and jaw, and an eager and worn expression in her fine eyes, gave her a thirsty, reckless leer that filled Marian with loathing.

He was cast for an old and withered Mephistopheles, his lines all downward, his few teeth fangs, and his smile a threatening leer, as if he thought of a joke he could not tell to decent visitors, but which almost choked him to withhold.