Hatred, intense and justified, seethed just below the most obsequious smile.

The same patient, obsequious smile greeted Braden as he came up.

The proprietor came bustling toward the new-comers with an obsequious smile upon his grizzled features.

He entered the drawing-room with his back rounded into a circle, scraping and cringing, an obsequious smile upon his lips.

Then they sank down again, and the obsequious smile died away on their faces, leaving them cold and haughty as before.

Maggie's rather silly, obsequious smile concealed but for a moment the ineffable tragedy that had lain in wait for unarmed Constance.

Now his name brought an obsequious smile to the maid's face; she attended him upstairs and ushered him with ceremony into a luxurious library.

"Your father understands that you are no longer a child, my prince," Niryn said with an obsequious smile.

"As long as books keep selling, right, Dr. Brennan?" Hovering at Tempe's elbow, the gray-suited man flashed an obsequious smile.