Distract politicians by simpering at them while assassins creep out of the bushes?'

There was Reggie Mann, meandering about and simpering at people.

Alice paused, and Michael observed with slow horror that she was actually simpering at him.

Our royalist countrymen were not heartless dangling courtiers, bowing at every step, and simpering at every word.

He glanced up and saw the figurehead; it seemed to be simpering at him with an irritating smile.

Sensible people are above simpering at references to colour in music, structure in wine or rhythm in architecture.

You don't get to be one of the Unnatural Inquirer's top reporters by batting your eyes and simpering at people.

Bates languishes in prison, the servants are trying to contact the dead and Lady Mary's simpering at Matthew could be seen from space.

She was sitting next to him, but she, too, was looking down the table at Fiona who was simpering at Lord Bloody Grantham.

Ay, I mind it well," said Humfrey, "and how thou didst stand simpering at her pack of lies, ere mother made thee sing another tune."

'Loverly, miss, loverly,' she said, simpering at the desk sergeant, 'it's an 'ome from 'ome.'