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1  She smiled loyally, and looked away.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER III
2  She unconsciously smiled at him as she went through.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XII
3  The Dawsons smiled their appreciation of listening to a savant.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER IV
4  She hadn't energy enough to caper before them, to smile blandly at Juanita's rudeness.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER X
5  Carol smiled lavishly, and wished that she called people by their given names more easily.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER III
6  The Dawsons and Mr. Mott teetered upon weary feet, and smiled at Carol with crystallized expressions.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER IV
7  She smiled frequently, and was the complete canary-bird in her manner of thanking the hostess, Mrs. Dave Dyer.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER X
8  She smiled at him with the exasperating tactfulness of a woman checking a flirtation; a smile like an airy pat on the arm.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XVI
9  She smiled at him, and the Perrys faded, the pioneers faded, till they were but daguerreotypes in a black walnut cupboard.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XII
10  Vida smiled tactfully at each of the committee, and announced, "Well, I don't believe we'd better start anything more right now."
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XI
11  I goes in, pious as Widow Bogart, and sits still and never cracks a smile while the preacher is favoring us with his misinformation on evolution.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XXVI
12  All evening she sang Scotch ballads to Kennicott, and when she noticed that he was chewing an unlighted cigar she smiled maternally at his secret.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER IX
13  He smiled at Kennicott, to imply that whatever he might say in the stress of being witty was not to count against him in the commercio-medical warfare.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER IV
14  When Kennicott rejoiced, "We'll have a great time this summer; move down to the lake early and wear old clothes and act natural," she smiled, but her smile creaked.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XVIII
15  She ran down the gravelly embankment, smiled at children gathering flowers in a little basket, thrust a handful of the soft pasque flowers into the bosom of her white blouse.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XII
16  The last thing she saw on the station platform was Kennicott, faithfully waving his hand, his face so full of uncomprehending loneliness that he could not smile but only twitch up his lips.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XXXVI
17  Then she was in the dining-room, leaning against the wall, trying to smile, flushing hot and cold along her chest and sides, while Kennicott mumbled, "Say, help Mrs. Morgenroth and me carry him in on the kitchen table."
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XV
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