Do we wish to retain these grimacing phases of ourselves?

In another moment the wild rider came bounding out from among them, and moving now erect, now on all fours, came sideling up to Martin, flinging his arms and legs about, wagging his head, grimacing and uttering whinnying and other curious noises.

For only answer the other squealed and whinnied, grimacing and kicking his legs up at the same time.

Fifteen minutes afterwards Mr. Jinks was going back to Bousch's tavern, mounted on Fodder, and grimacing.

I cried; 'nor should you let him think they do; 'tis not fair usage.' 'Nay, he diverts me hugely,' said she; 'and I need diversion, for my heart is heavy as lead, Lucy;'all at once there were tears in her eyes;'if I can forget my griefs while I watch a mannikin bowing and grimacing before me, don't grudge me the poor pastime.

And now I shall be waiting for it to strike to-morrow morning, to get uplend me that candle, do!" She tripped down to the lobby gladly, and opened the big door of the clock, and put her hand into the dark cavity and, grimacing, hauled up the heavy weights.

Soon there came a sound at the door and he twisted his head, grimacing with the pain it caused him.

"He sleeps like the dead," he said, grimacing.

And in the name of Heaven, what does she see to admire in that putty-faced, grimacing ass, any way!

Like sudden snow on a summer meadow, a white silence fell from his imagination across that fiddling, jigging, gleaming atmosphere, and everywhere the dead sat around him, watching in a trance strange antics of the grimacing dead.

He disliked that man with the grimacing mouth.

On he came, his old, wrinkled face grimacing in toothless smiles, his ribboned cane waving in his trembling hand, and his well-nigh bald head bowing a welcome to the watchers.

One grimacing puckered head has a movable tongue that once lifted a latch on being touched.

Now it is the encorbelment of a turret at the angle of a fifteenth or sixteenth century mansion that has lost all its importance; now a dark archway with fantastic heads grimacing from the wall; now an arcade of Gothic windows, with graceful columns and delicate carvingsa beautiful fragment in the midst of ruin.

In the lower half of the tympan Satan is enthroned, his feet resting upon a writhing and hideously grimacing figure, supposed to be that of Judas.

He was as white as a sheet, grimacing with painhorribly ugly.

It was as though someone had wiped off the holy oil from this grimacing mask with a butcher's sponge.

So glad," she said, grimacing cheerfully to salve her conscience.

I have the blood of a line of handicraftsmen in my veins, and I want to stand up for the lot of the handicraftsmen as a good lot, in which a man may be better trained to all the best functions of his nature, than if he belonged to the grimacing set who have visiting-cards, and are proud to be thought richer than their neighbors.

You grimacing baby, do you think to ensnare a lion with such a flimsy rat-trap?

she cried, insolently grimacing in his face.

GRIMALDI, JOSEPH, a famous English clown, son of an Italian dancing-master, born in London; was bred to the stage from his infancy, appearing on the boards when not yet two years old; his Memoirs were edited by Dickens, who describes him as "the genuine droll, the grimacing, filching, irresistible clown" (1779-1837).

The old man was grimacing and twisting his hands nervously.

In a moment he was back, thrusting his white grimacing face through the trap and tossed something upon the bed.

The little councilor was his old self again, chuckling and grimacing and rubbing his hands, and his eyes danced as he spoke of the girl.