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Smiling

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Smiling
Snobbery (See ARROGANCE, PRETENSION.)
Mona Lisa
(“La Gioconda’) her mysterious smile enchants the beholder. [Ital. Art: Benét 397]

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Now sayest thou to me, smiling and full of melancholy: "Which of us oweth thanks?
"But," said the Officer, still smiling, "it was a stuffed Thug.
Weeks had listened politely, with smiling modesty, till Hayward finished; then he asked one or two insidious questions, so innocent in appearance that Hayward, not seeing into what a quandary they led him, answered blandly; Weeks made a courteous objection, then a correction of fact, after that a quotation from some little known Latin commentator, then a reference to a German authority; and the fact was disclosed that he was a scholar.
 
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