"Sing a song, Bibbs!" cried one voice; "Where's your neck-tie?" asked another; "What are you grinning at?" demanded a third; while the object of these pleasantries stood, with a vacant smile upon his face, nervously fumbling with his watch-chain.

I can see you yet, stepping up with that innocent grin of yours.

"Now, then," said Mr. Blake, looking up from his mark-book with a broad grin on his own face"now, then, there's nothing to laugh at.

He grinned with embarrassment, and hitched his head towards Kaviak.

" "Thank you, my dear," he said, grinning in an amused way.

And the fellow laughed aloud, while the police officers on either side of me grinned from ear to ear.

Then Charteris cocked his head to one side and grinned like a hobgoblin.

The ring-leader I haled to James Town, and had the pleasure of seeing him grinning through a collar in the common stocks.

On one occasion Cooke was missing from a morning rehearsal, and all had been some time in waiting for the tragedian, when the messenger whom Kerable despatched in search of him, returned grinning to the green-room.

Pathetic, aye, patheticwith a grin behind the pathos, as there ever is.

Who in this street would carry my note, and not wink and grin over it with low surmises?

"I'll give them something to grin about before they're much older.

"Working day and night?" Donnegan smoothed his whiskers and grinned into the night.

He joins the Mess and listens with an ill-concealed grin as each in turn boasts of the rat-catching powers of his dog at home.

Harry chuckled and grinned for a moment in his old foxy, peering way, and then wandered off again.

"I'll wipe that grin off his face!" muttered Pennington angrily.

" I looked to see Brutus' great bulk grinning at me from the doorway.

Bruce was grinning under his sodden hair.

Bank over bank of earth and stone, cleft by deep embrasures, from which the great guns grin across the rich gardens, studded with standard fruit-trees, which close the glacis to its topmost edge.

Cerberus stands and grins above me now, Wearing three headslion, and lynx, and sow.

It is difficult to draw them properly because, like Alice's 'Cheshire cat,' which at times became a grin without a cat, these faces have expression without features.

As for Master Informer, Barnaby had the satisfaction of seeing that he had stopped his grinning by now and was holding his master's arm as though to restrain him from any further act of violence.

How gracefully she waves her head in the fine recover from the withdrawing curtsy, and beautifully extends her hand to the bald-pated individual grinning to her on the rug!

"Kiss the Book, if you please," said the usher, suppressing a grin by an heroic effort, as Mrs. Hornby, encumbered by her purse, her handkerchief and the Testament, struggled to unfasten her bonnet-strings.

Hooray, Clive,' and an ass came down the incline with a little pair of white trousers at an immensely wide angle over the donkey's back, and there was little Alfred grinning with all his might.