1 'I hope I am, sir,' said Mr. Gamfield, with an ugly leer.
2 'She was my daughter,' said the old woman, nodding her head in the direction of the corpse; and speaking with an idiotic leer, more ghastly than even the presence of death in such a place.
3 Her body was bent by age; her limbs trembled with palsy; her face, distorted into a mumbling leer, resembled more the grotesque shaping of some wild pencil, than the work of Nature's hand.
4 She had broad nostrils, a straggling mouth which lay open in a contented leer, and two projecting front teeth.
5 In his imagination he beheld the pair of lovers walking along some dark road; he heard Corley's voice in deep energetic gallantries and saw again the leer of the young woman's mouth.
6 I have, though, she added, with a sickly leer.
7 I thought I saw him leer in an ugly way at me while the decanters were going round, but as there was no love lost between us, that might easily be.
8 I wonder now, when I recall his leer, that I did not collar him, and try to shake the breath out of his body.
9 The holy leer with which the priest said it remained in her mind.
10 As the negro came running to the buggy, his black face twisted in a leering grin, she fired point-blank at him.
11 So the crowd subsided; and a few moments later several policemen came up, staring here and there, and leering at their victims.
12 The men said it blissfully, leering at each other with dirty smiles.
13 Indeed, he saw a picture of himself, dust-stained, haggard, panting, flying to the front at the proper moment to seize and throttle the dark, leering witch of calamity.
14 He skipped along the front row of the audience, leering at each in turn.
15 And all this with such a sneering, leering, insolent face that I would have knocked him down twenty times over if he had been a man of my own age.
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