Wry expressions

Usage examples of grimaces.

He reads it and looks askance at Attorney Alejandro, who grimaces and taps himself on the jaw, which is code for "the Dentist" and which Randy interprets to mean that said billionaire is interfering with whatever Attorney Alejandro is trying to accomplish.

Comstock pauses for effect, sips, grimaces, and lowers his voice another notch "--you could buy a nice little Ford or a Chevy.

He grimaces as if in pain, "It doesn't seem like I could have done that.

They next made all sorts of grimaces, and put themselves in various attitudes before the mirror.

When this child was about four months old, I made in his presence many odd noises and strange grimaces, and tried to look savage.

Dalova had a demonstrative and affectionate nature, though the strains of the recent past were apparent in her nervous gestures and grimaces, the way she constantly shifted her position by her queen, often tapping her fingers on Allaneth's forearm as she listened to Moreta's explanation of her double Search.

Lord Groghe, for all his clipped speech and an amazing range of descriptive grimaces, was very easy to talk to, once she got over her initial nervousness about the fracas with Benis.

Piemur caught the direction of his look and saw Master Robinton making such absurd grimaces that the baby was too fascinated to howl, his tear-filled eyes fixed on the Harper.

With winces and grimaces and slow movements, he peeled his shirt partway down to show them his bruises.

He led them to the balloon wagon, ignoring the clerk's grimaces and feeble protests.

But occasionally, too, a pious or patriotic onlooker would beg hard enough to persuade Sir John—who made sad grimaces of reluctance and sacrifice—to sell him the egg, and would pay a fancy price for it.

Next he did the same with the long sabre, but with grimaces, grunts and eye rollings to proclaim the superhuman difficulty of getting it all the way down his gullet.

So Ali Baba bent over, seized a dumbbell bar with both hands, pretended titanic exertion, did fierce grimaces, and very, very slowly began to stand erect.

At the same time, over his childish countenance which was, at once so impudent and so serious, so giddy and so profound, so gay and so heart-breaking, passed all those grimaces of an old man which signify: Ah bah!

His face, an inexhaustible repertory of masks, produced grimaces more convulsing and more fantastic than the rents of a cloth torn in a high gale.