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Use in Literature

Grimacing

No canvisars would dare to shew Their postures and grimaces, Or proph'sy what they never knew, By dint of ugly faces.–Charles Mackay (editor) in Cavalier Songs and Ballads of England from 1642 to 1684.

None grimaced more horribly.–Joseph A. Altsheler in The Scouts of the Valley.

Do as I do, give them grimaces for their money, and let us live happily.–Honoré de Balzac in A Distinguished Provincial at Paris (tr Ellen Marriage).

Louis took great pleasure in interrogating his guests, and was much amused with the vicissitudes of their physiognomies, on which were reflected the dirty grimaces of their writhings.–Honoré de Balzac in Droll Stories, vol 1.

Our faces assume congealed and fixed grimaces under the wan leprosy of dust.–Henri Barbusse in Under Fire.

This he stuck in one eye, grimacing slightly to keep it in place, and so regarded me apparently with some curiosity.–Robert Barr in The Face and the Mask.

He saw them, and grimaced frightfully, cowering and cringing.–Rex Beach in The Barrier.

In a few minutes half the town was in motion; tailors, confectioners, and barbers thrusting bills into our hands with manifold grimaces and contortions.–William Beckford in Dreams, Waking Thoughts, and Incidents.

To this it clung in a seeming frenzy, grimacing ghastly, surging and plunging from side to side in its efforts to disengage its property from the beam, but uttering no sound.–Ambrose Bierce in Can Such Things Be?.

Climbing up a high branch he crouched there, imitating every gesture of the monkeys and answering their threatening grimaces by still uglier ones, to the unconcealed disgust of our pious coolies.–Helena Pretrovna Blavatsky in From the Caves and Jungles of Hindostan.

• Preface iv
• Use in Literature 1
• Grimacing 1
• Grimacing – "Laugh" 6
• Grimacing – "Little" 7
• Grimacing – "Making" 7
• Grimacing – "Old" 10
• Grimacing – "Smile" 10
• Nonfiction Usage 12
• Journalism Usage 12
• Bibliographic Usage 12
• Lexicographic Usage 13
• Index 19