1 Most of all she learned how to conceal from men a sharp intelligence beneath a face as sweet and bland as a baby's.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret MitcheGet Context In CHAPTER III 2 Seeing the obdurate look on Scarlett's face, Mammy picked up the tray and, with the bland guile of her race, changed her tactics.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret MitcheGet Context In CHAPTER V 3 His brown face was bland and his mouth, red lipped, clear cut as a woman's, frankly sensual, smiled carelessly as he lifted her into the carriage.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret MitcheGet Context In CHAPTER XVII 4 His bland eyes grew suddenly alert and he caught her gaze and held it until a little blush crept up into her cheeks.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret MitcheGet Context In CHAPTER XLIII 5 When he came back from New Orleans, cool and bland, she swallowed her anger as best she could, pushing it into the back of her mind to be thought of at some later date.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret MitcheGet Context In CHAPTER XLIX 6 Under her gaze it was suddenly smooth and bland as though wiped clear by magic.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret MitcheGet Context In CHAPTER L 7 However, he had been his usual bland self at those times, and never by look or word showed that such a scene had taken place between them.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret MitcheGet Context In CHAPTER LVII 8 Yes, I'm sure she's very bland.
Main Street By Sinclair LewisGet Context In CHAPTER XIII 9 There he sat, his very indifference speaking a nature in which there lurked no civilized hypocrisies and bland deceits.
Moby Dick By Herman MelvilleGet Context In CHAPTER 10. A Bosom Friend. 10 There was hardly a minute between giggles and bland slumber.
My Antonia By Willa CatherGet Context In BOOK 5. Cuzak's Boys: I 11 The agent was as bland as ever.
12 He was a slightly ragged man, who spat skillfully between his shoes and possessed a great fund of bland and infantile assurance.
The Red Badge of Courage By Stephen CraneGet Context In Chapter 1 13 "Yes, 'tis rather a rum course," said Venn, in the bland tone of one comfortably resigned to sins he could no longer overcome.'
Return of the Native By Thomas HardyGet Context In BOOK 6: 2 Thomasin Walks in a Green Place by the Roman Road 14 The man who entered was a sturdy, middle-sized fellow, some thirty years of age, clean-shaven, and sallow-skinned, with a bland, insinuating manner, and a pair of wonderfully sharp and penetrating grey eyes.
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan DoyleGet Context In III. A CASE OF IDENTITY 15 He replied with a few bland phrases which the Italian received once more with a laugh, passing his hand nervously and repeatedly over his blue-grey, bushy moustache.
The Trial By Franz KafkaGet Context In Chapter Nine In the Cathedral