She said with an air of no emotion whatever.
She sat picking at her small plate of rice salad with an air of martyrdom.
He listened quietly to the arguments with an air of aloof detachment.
The girl made no answer, but she dropped on one of the seat with an air of lassitude.
It has the wisest way, however perilous it might be, to retire with an air of confidence.
"Good!" said the mender of roads, with an air of mystery. "Thetall man is lost, and he is sought - how many months? Nine, ten, eleven?"
Let him meet with a young woman once and he would approach her with an air of kindly familiarity, not unmixed with pleading, which would result in most cases in a tolerant acceptance.
Cokane, not at all abashed, resumes his place at the other table with an air of modest good breeding, and calls to Trench, who is prowling irresolutely in the background
with an air of triumph
She go to meet him with an air of expectancy.
The young woman spoke with an expression of deep tenderness, while the count replied with an air of gentle gravity.
His mother stared at me with an air of supercilious manner.
Philosophy consistently emerges with an air of "retrospection". What is she against will be the deviation of self from reality.
He took the sailor's notes and deliberately folded them, and put them with the shillings in a high remote pocket, with an air of finality.
The rabbit is believed to be one of the happiest signs, with people born in that year renowned for their kindness, reliability and loyalty, though with an air of mystery and propensity to cry.
Behind the folding table, the judge sat in a tight seat, with an air of dignity, and the waiter stood around, beating flies with a fan from time to time. Then, in the name of the King of England and His Majesty the Indian Emperor, he began to exercise his power to hear cases.
He spoke with an air of exultation.
He has described them as "places of huge human drama" with an air of "macho glamour".
When he saw me, he took off his hat with an air of gorgeous servility.
These villains were submitting to their fate with an air of sulky indifference which accorded ill with the baffled fury that gleamed in their sombre eyes.
"You see," said the young man, with an air of sorrowful resignation, to Faria, "that God deems it right to take from me any claim to merit for what you call my devotion to you.
with an air of finality
"High!" said Andy, with an air of instant appreciation.
The girl wore the sad clothes of a prisoner with an air of repose and well-being.
She ate like a horse until the last plate was clean, and then she placed her silverware down with an air of conclusion .
"There is something nicer in store for her today," Secretary Li smiled with an air of mystery and went on, "Director Wang has managed to get your daughter transferred to the Provincial Drama Troupe with the help of Lao Ma of the Cultural Bureau."
They stood there with an air of defiance, or at least of contention.
She went to meet him with an air of expectancy, ie as if expecting him to bring sth.
"The second had sloping shoulders and a slender waist. She was tall and slim, with an oval face, well-defined eyebrows and lovely dancing eyes. She seemed elegant and quick-witted with an air of distinction. To look at her was to forget everyting vulgar."
His sisters were fine women, with an air of decided fashion.
We can only accept them and because they're tinged with an air of mystery and strangeness-perhaps treasure them all the more.
The ancient castle was invested with an air of mystery.
"You see," said the young man, with an air of sorrowful resignation, to Faria, "that God deems it right to take from me any claim to merit for what you call my devotion to you."
"Less than superlative?" said Giles Gosling, drinking off the cup, and smacking his lips with an air of ineffable relish.
Nello held up the shaving cloth with an air of invitation.
The wife lowered her head and tinkly washed the dishes and chopsticks, with an air of old-fashioned dignity that she didn't care about.
He is tired, delicate with an air of childlike innocence.
He answered with an air of detachment.
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