Which preposition to use with grins
"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.
"I'll give them something to grin about before they're much older.
Who in this street would carry my note, and not wink and grin over it with low surmises?
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.
"Working day and night?" Donnegan smoothed his whiskers and grinned into the night.
Bruce was grinning under his sodden hair.
"I'll wipe that grin off his face!" muttered Pennington angrily.
Cerberus stands and grins above me now, Wearing three headslion, and lynx, and sow.
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.
grin around me, And stun me with the yellings of damnation!
They grin between the bars of dungeons, my friendat least, those who have heads left to grin with.
Robert de Genneville seemed to dance before her eyes and to mock her for the hopeless bewilderment in which she found herself plunged because of them; then all the faces vanished, or, rather, were merged in one long, thin, bird-like one, with bone-rimmed spectacles on the top of its beak, and a wide, rude grin beneath it, and, still puzzled, still doubtful, the young girl too paid for her scanty luncheon and went her way.
"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.
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 I went out Meeker grinned after me and whispered something to Captain Riggs behind his hand.