"Beamingly" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... will," rejoined McVay beamingly. "Hen comes as he has always come to his friends, ...
— The Burglar and the Blizzard • Alice Duer Miller
... the first time they had been alone since the compact. She looked at him beamingly as they started on ...
— The Twelfth Hour • Ada Leverson
... compact or understanding existed between them, which neither Gray nor Mrs. Frank could palliate or explain. It had not needed that episode to tell her that Armstrong held her in contempt; and yet, when they chanced to meet, she could smile up into his eyes as beamingly, as guilelessly, as though no shadow of sin had ever darkened her winsome face. But not so Gray. He moaned in secret over the loss of a strong man's confidence and esteem. He longed to find a way to win it back. He had even thought to go to the colonel ...
— Found in the Philippines - The Story of a Woman's Letters • Charles King
... brightly, even beamingly. In the brief interval which had elapsed since Sam had seen him last, an extraordinary transformation had taken place in this young man. His wan look had disappeared. His eyes were bright. His face wore that beastly self-satisfied smirk which ...
— Three Men and a Maid • P. G. Wodehouse
... honey, and with its appearance the pelting storm outside lost power to annoy. My companion beamingly did me honour in a full glass. After a moment fraught of silence and peach and honey, and possibly, too, from some notion of pleasing my host with a compliment, I said: "That gentleman with whom you were in converse last evening told me he never passed a more ...
— Wolfville Nights • Alfred Lewis
... believe in," said Israel, beamingly, "peaceable ways o' settlin the trouble; bills instid o' bagonets. The beauty on't so fer is that thar hain't been no sheddin o' blood, nor no vi'lence tew speak of, ceppin a leetle shovin daown tew Barrington, an I ...
— The Duke of Stockbridge • Edward Bellamy
... sort of thing happening, and said she could manage perfectly well. Indeed, Viola was beamingly amiable over the prospect, when summoned and told. She volunteered to do any mending and ...
— The Wishing-Ring Man • Margaret Widdemer
... read the telegram, and then beamingly drew her daughter to her and kissed her. The two then wrote a message, after much counting of words, to be sent to ...
— The Wit and Humor of America, Volume IX (of X) • Various
... from which she had come. She lay awake for a little while, meditating on the vagaries of the family she had fallen into, and then fell so soundly asleep that she was surprised to find it broad daylight when she awoke, and to see Marie sitting on the end of her bed, smiling beamingly upon her. ...
— Barbara in Brittany • E. A. Gillie
... he gave a deferential bow; Then, to my horror, beamingly replied, 'Master not see? I wearing trousers now!' I ...
— Rhymes of the East and Re-collected Verses • John Kendall (AKA Dum-Dum)
... hymeneal altar by a belted earl, and pleasant to have his daughter as a volunteered bridesmaid. Mrs. Kirkpatrick in this flush of small gratifications, and on the brink of matrimony with a man whom she liked, and who would be bound to support her without any exertion of her own, looked beamingly happy and handsome. A little cloud came over her face at the sight of Mr. Preston,—the sweet perpetuity of her smile was rather disturbed as he followed in Mr. Gibson's wake. But his face never changed; he bowed to her gravely, and then seemed absorbed in the service. Ten ...
— Wives and Daughters • Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell
... coon," said Rodney, patting her on the shoulder, in an exuberance of gracious approval and beamingly serene content. "I'll take you in my gig with Red Squirrel," he added, by way of ...
— The Other Girls • Mrs. A. D. T. Whitney
... know when I've enjoyed myself as much," exclaimed Rhinds, looking round beamingly over the dinner party in one corner ...
— The Submarine Boys' Lightning Cruise - The Young Kings of the Deep • Victor G. Durham
... her eyes. His few simple words had suddenly brought home to her in a strange, intense way the long loneliness to which she had condemned him. And now he was an old fellow! And he was grateful, beamingly grateful, for a little commonplace thought about his comfort such as any ...
— December Love • Robert Hichens |
