The widow Simpered and looked down, thereby affording Mr. Nugent an opportunity of another signal to the perturbed steward, who sat with such a look of anxiety on his face lest he should miss his cue that the young man's composure was tried to the utmost.
"At Sunwich Port, Complete"
W.W. Jacobs
This was a great flight of poetical rhetoric, and Miss Pinckney bridled and Simpered like a girl of sixteen.
"Little Miss Joy"
Emma Marshall
The Colonel went on, keeping a sharp look-out for Cora Dean's pony-carriage; but it did not meet his eyes; and Richard Linnell turned into the library, meeting Lady Drelincourt, who smiled and Simpered as she passed out, thrusting a book into her reticule.
"The Master of the Ceremonies"
George Manville Fenn