She was enjoying herself intensely, but trying to preserve an appearance of innocent calm.

It happens to be the fashion even for bayadères to preserve an appearance of great propriety in public.

Each and all, however poor, are anxious to preserve an appearance of wealth or to raise credit by that means.

His confidence buttressed by the supportive exhortations of the Face, Alexei was able to preserve an appearance of composure, and even of indifference.

The object of all this contumely preserved an appearance of consummate indifference to it all; but her son!

With his art of persuasion he combined rare skill in evading difficult questions while preserving an appearance of candor.

Percival preserved an appearance of calm, but he could feel his strong, irregular heart-throbs as he leant against the chair.

For a time they preserved an appearance of deep dejection, Terence tugging his hair as if in utter despair, till Ryan whispered:

But as the porter might be an agent of our government in disguise, we preserved an appearance of philosophical indifference in his presence.