Meaning of aftersmile | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A smile that follows something.
2. A facial expression that follows a smile.

Examples

“[…] there were funerals as the result⟳ of a holy effort (for holy effort still we avow it to have⟳ been, and the aftersmile of God hath proved it so).”

“No night drops down upon the troubled breast, / When heaven’s aftersmile, earth’s teardrops gain⟳, / And mother finds her home and far-off rest⟳.”

“Smiling with imperturbable tenderness, Mrs. Selborne thrust out her heavy legs slowly to swell with warm ripe smack his gift of flowered green-silk garters. Wetting his thumb with sly thin aftersmile, he told.”

“New truths were coming to her, and she at first laughed at them, laughed at what her own⟳ head was telling her […]. Her aftersmile spread⟳ into the doubt⟳ in her eyes when her head told her that she would soon be able to carry⟳ the daylight on her back.”

“It made her smile⟳, just a little one, and that was good, but the smile⟳ got switched off pretty soon and somehow that made it worse, because there was such a contrast in her face⟳ between smile⟳ and aftersmile.”

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