simper

`That's too bad,' Tiny simpered. She was in a teasing mood.

"I didn't say felons!" the Chancellor explained.) "You may be sure that I always sympa--"("'Ear, 'ear!" shouted the crowd, so loudly as quite to drown the orator's thin squeaky voice) "--that I always sympa--" he repeated.("Don't simper quite so much!" said the man under the window.

"Yes, ma'am, indeed," replied the other, with a stately simper, "there will be some satisfaction in looking on now, and I think it was rather a pity they should have been obliged to part.

"Peter, you just spoil them, you know," Wendy simpered

In Mary Ann there was a certain affected simper, and a craving for notice, that I was sorry to observe.

"Come, is Babylon reformed, or have you degenerated?" she added, glancing with a simper at Kitty.

In the midst of all these fascinations, Barbara's thoughts seemed to have been still running on what Kit had said at tea-time; for, when they were coming out of the play, she asked him, with an hysterical simper, if Miss Nell was as handsome as the lady who jumped over the ribbons.

It was beyond a doubt some unspeakable tenor, a good-looking jackanapes, who mouthed and simpered as he sang!

D'Artagnan entered, with a simper on his lips, his plate under his arm, his hat in one hand, his candle in the other.

Apparently she 'gushed' (a favourite word used for when women merely speak), was 'flirtatious', she 'simpers' and was 'giggling like a schoolgirl and whispering questions coquettishly'.

With cliff-hangers like "I'm jest going upstairs to take off my het" from Lady Mary, and sickly simpers from the brain-damaged Countess who hasn't noticed her simpleton husband has parked his shooting-stick between his buttocks, this makes Coronation Street Shakespearean.