with an air of

He flitted away down the path, his head held high, with an air of somewhat jaded jauntiness.

The girl wore the sad clothes of a prisoner with an air of repose and well-being.

They stood there with an air of defiance, or at least of contention.

It has the wisest way, however perilous it might be, to retire with an air of confidence.

Mr. Pierce knocked the pince-nez from his nose, and turning to Eugene with an air of agreeable confidence, said.

Holmes leaned back in his chair, placed his finger-tips together, and closed his eyes, with an air of resignation. Dr.

He looked at me with an air of surprised disapproval, as a colonel might look at a private whose bootlaces were undone.

the two men remained opposite one another , morrell trembling in every limb , the stranger gazing at him with an air of profound pity.

"DO YOU KNOW WHO I AM? " the student asked again. "No, and I don't care, " replied the professor with an air of superiority.

She ate like a horse until the last plate was clean, and then she placed her silverware down with an air of conclusion.

She had set her elbow on her knee and her chin in her hand, and she swung her foot with an air of indifference.

She said with an air of no emotion whatever.

When he saw me, he took off his hat with an air of gorgeous servility.

"No, as a matter of fact I don't, " replied the professor with an air of sarcasm in his voice.

the girl made no answer , but she dropped on one of the seat with an air of lassitude.

At last, with an air of disappointment, his head sank back on the pillow.

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.

"I don't pretend to argue with a lady on politics, " said Mr. Brooke, with an air of smiling indifference.

He looked at me with an air of surprised disapproval.

said Giles Gosling, drinking off the cup, and smacking his lips with an air of ineffable relish.

thats true , " she said with an air of conviction . " love before all things !

And he looked at them steadily for a moment with an air of challenge.

The Bishop gazed at her with an air of amazement.

Father Sergei, who oversees the local church, observed the hundreds of brave believers with an air of satisfaction.

With an air of genuine concern, the man rushed to her, dipped his fingers in the glass, and sprinkled some water on her face.

Mr. Pierce kept studying the menu with an air of good-natured seriousness, quizzing his son from time to time with gruff but genial banter.

She went to meet him with an air of expectancy, ie as if expecting him to bring sth.

"Let us visit them, " said the inspector with an air of fatigue.

Judith laid aside the rich brocade with an air of indifferences, for she had a far higher aim before her than the indulgence of vanity.

"Gentlemen, " said he, with an air of inspiration.

The young man rambled on with an air of great consequence.

Nello held up the shaving cloth with an air of invitation.

The young man ramble on with an air of great consequence.

With an air of resignation, she arranges chairs for the visitors almost before the first greetings are exchanged.

The crimes committed there invested the place with an air of mystery and gloom.

" Second day ! Yes , second day , " repeated the lady, with an air of impatience .

The first thing was sternness - it was with an air of sternness that I took her into my house.

She speaks patronizingly , with an air of explaining something very simple to someone very obtuse, and calls the idea "insane. "

Anyway, there he was, tucked away comfortably, but with an air of weariness as usual.

He came into the room with an air of importance.

He listened quietly to the arguments with an air of aloof detachment.

The dog always accepted these thrashings with an air of admitted guilt.

the man cried instantly, with an air of recollection that somehow said that he remembered nothing.

He came into the room with an air of triumph.

"Yes, " she answered, with an air of quiet understanding.

The young woman spoke with an expression of deep tenderness , while the count replied with an air of gentle gravity.

john set about his task with an air of quiet confidence.

"High! " said Andy, with an air of instant appreciation.

She removed her spectacles and, almost with an air of mourning, said, 'Le vrai moleskine n'est plus. '

"Oh, are you a prefect, Percy? " said one of the twins, with an air of great surprise. "You should have said something, we had no idea. "

With an air of charming naivety, the panda is the most popular star in zoo.

His sisters were fine women, with an air of decided fashion.

He has described them as "places of huge human drama" with an air of "macho glamour" .

The ancient castle was invested with an air of mystery.

If you can surround yourself with an air of mystery, you will do even better.

Oh , my ! How the Mayor glared at that rare chair with an air of despair.

She would glide in among them, and look at them with an air of perplexed and sorrowful earnestness.

Tom finished the sentence with an air of pique.

The two young men looked at each other with an air of stupefaction .

He answered with an air of detachment.

How the Mayor glared at that rare chair with an air of despair.

We can only accept them and because they're tinged with an air of mystery and strangeness -perhaps treasure them all the more.

This is a banal untruth, uttered with an air of spurious profundity designed to embarrass people not on board for their project.

He walked with an air of importance.

as i am dying, please don't leave me alone. with you, i can accept anything upcoming with an air of openness

Javert added, with an air of indifference, but without removing his eyes from Madeleine

With an air of indifference he soon afterwards added:

speak with an air of importance

with an air of patronage