1 Though she was thoroughly aware of his insincerity, she much preferred him in the role of the romantic blockader.
2 I feared that 'visiting the sick and the imprisoned' was not your proper role.
3 The role she enacted was that of a refined sweet Southern lady in distress.
4 "But I just can't see you in the role of a guardian," and she laughed, hoping to disconcert him.
5 Miss Corby's role was jocularity: she always entered the conversation with a handspring.
6 Rosedale in the paternal role was hardly a figure to soften Lily; yet she could not but notice a quality of homely goodness in his advances to the child.
7 Her defiance, her enjoyment of the role, ran out.
8 On the screen, in the role of a composer, appeared an actor called Eric Valour.
9 Many of them were delicious in the role; one of them was the embodiment of every womanly grace and charm.
10 Mrs. Pontellier was glad he had not assumed a similar role toward herself.
11 Upon this Theodulia Ivanovna requested her guest to be seated, and accompanied the invitation with the kind of bow usually employed only by actresses who are playing the role of queens.
12 Although in female society Anatole usually assumed the role of a man tired of being run after by women, his vanity was flattered by the spectacle of his power over these three women.
13 To be in Anna Pavlovna's drawing room he considered an important step up in the service, and he at once understood his role, letting his hostess make use of whatever interest he had to offer.
14 "On the contrary, things seem satisfactory, ma cousine," said Pierre in the bantering tone he habitually adopted toward her, always feeling uncomfortable in the role of her benefactor.
15 He was absorbed in the role he had created for himself.