The unexpected question sent Tess staggering back; a tearful smile spread the red lips.

Ida gave her a tearful smile, and Betty kissed her.

Molly finally pulled away from her mother and wiped her eyes with a tearful smile.

She might comfort him with the tearful smile of a lover ready to soothe her lifemate's pain.

She looked up with a tearful smile.

Pen gave a sudden tearful smile.

Why, it's almost like seeing Effie herself to see you, John! she repeated, giving him a tearful smile.

She managed a tearful smile.

She reproves him for this with a tearful smile (it wouldn't be her smile if it wasn't tearful).

He tore himself away, and when at a safe distance flung her a kiss, which she rewarded with a tearful smile.

She seemed to take courage and comfort from his words, and with a timid, tearful smile began to pick at her macaroni cheese.

He raised himself from his pillows as he took her small, warm, fibrous hand, and his pallid face brightened into a tearful smile.

Tom tried to answer her; but somehow his great faithful heart was overflowing, and he could only look at her with a tearful smile.

It is a shamelessly sentimental ending, all tearful smiles and pealing bells.

"We even named the house," recalled Mother Carey with a tearful smile.

"No, John," said Ellen, meeting his eyes with a tearful smile.