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Smiles

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smile  (sml)
n.
1. A facial expression characterized by an upward curving of the corners of the mouth and indicating pleasure, amusement, or derision.
2. A pleasant or favorable disposition or aspect.
v. smiled, smil·ing, smiles
v.intr.
1. To have or form a smile.
2.
a. To look with favor or approval: Fortune smiled on our efforts.
b. To express cheerful acceptance or equanimity: We smiled at the bad weather and kept going.
v.tr.
1. To express with a smile: Grandmother smiled her consent.
2. To effect or accomplish with or as if with a smile.
[From Middle English smilen, to smile, probably of Scandinavian origin; see smei- in Indo-European roots.]
smiler n.
smiling·ly adv.
Smiles [smaɪlz]
n
(Biographies / Smiles, Samuel (1812-1904) M, British, WRITING: writer) Samuel. 1812-1904, British writer: author of the didactic work


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Not that I would have my reader imagine, that this was one of those wanton smiles which Homer would have you conceive came from Venus, when he calls her the laughter-loving goddess; nor was it one of those smiles which Lady Seraphina shoots from the stage-box, and which Venus would quit her immortality to be able to equal.
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She gives kindly gifts to men: smiles are ever on her lovely face, and lovely is the brightness that plays over it.
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When a lady, young and full of life and health, charming with beauty and endowed with the gifts of rank and fortune, sits and smiles in the eyes of a gentleman you--"
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