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Meanings of smiling self in English

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Usage of smiling self in English
1
Just here the Doctor came back,-andhe came back his smiling self.
Told in a French Garden / August, 1914
2
With equal suddenness and self-possession he became his smiling self again.
A Spirit in Prison
3
And then it ends with just a smiling self portrait.
The new yorker
4
Miss Burton at once became her old, smiling self.
A Face Illumined
5
By then she was her usual sweet, smiling self, the shadow gone from her eyes.
Ruthless
6
The girl mused, smiling self-consciously.
Our Friend the Charlatan
7
Ereko laughed, smiling self-consciously.
Return of the Crimson Guard
8
He saluted, smiling self-consciously.
Alice of Old Vincennes
9
Lisbeth having set the laundrymaid to work, was once more her usual smiling self, and was quite pleased to hear the news.
Hunter's Marjory / A Story for Girls
10
As for that stout, good-natured looking woman, she also was unlike her placid smiling self, for her face looked red and puffy.
The Chink in the Armour
11
At Davos his needs were anticipated a week in advance; at Nice there had been Edhart, who added his smiling self to everything else.
The Triflers
12
And now Ruth was her happy, smiling self again, and Annette was no longer eager to teach "lessons" to the younger girls.
A Little Maid of Old Philadelphia
13
The screen cut to a picture of a young white boy with thick brown hair and blue eyes, smiling self-consciously for a family portrait.
Lockdown
14
Next day Miss Sylvia was her serene, smiling self once more, and she did not again make any reference to what she had told me.
Lucy Maud Montgomery Short Stories, 1909 to 1922
15
"Look at me," said Remsen, who was his smiling self, pointing to his own face; "whom do you see here?"
The Trimmed Lamp, and Other Stories of the Four Million
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Smiling self across language varieties
United Kingdom
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