） "Swing the rope smoothly.
Jeremiah Cobb's mental machinery was simple, and did not move very smoothly save when propelled by his affection or sympathy.
Rebecca's own black locks were commonly pushed smoothly off her forehead, but on this occasion she formed what I must perforce call by its only name, a spit-curl, directly in the centre of her brow, an ornament which she was allowed to wear a very short time, only in fact till Hannah was able to call her mother's attention to it, when she was sent into the next room to remove it and to come back looking like a Christian.
Anna enjoyed the service, which passed smoothly and uneventfully.
He and she then told me of changes they had known: even with them all had not gone smoothly, and fortune had retrenched her once abundant gifts.
Sometimes she would be angry; sometimes the matter was allowed to pass smoothly, and we could hear her say as she led him up-stairs: "Now, my dear boy, come and take your tea—I am sure you must want something.
Time always flowed smoothly for me at my godmother's side; not with tumultuous swiftness, but blandly, like the gliding of a full river through a plain.
And yet the course of true love does not run quite as smoothly as one would under the circumstances expect.
Out of the Smiling Pool and into the Laughing Brook, where the brown water flows smoothly, the three little swimmers towed the big green lily-pad.
Over Uncle Stephen's Walk, where the snow had fallen smoothly, a spell of white magic had been woven.
You mustn't expect that everything will always go smoothly.
It was astonishing how smoothly everything went after this, for each was eager to help, admire, and suggest, in the friendliest way; and when all were dressed, the boys found a party of very gay ladies waiting for them round the couch, where lay the brightest little Princess ever seen.
" he continued; for though her hair was now under a new dispensation, and was brushed smoothly behind her ears, she seemed still in imagination to be tossing it out of her eyes.
Brooke, and the preliminaries of marriage rolled smoothly along, shortening the weeks of courtship.
The old white horse strained at the ropes, the barge glided smoothly and steadily through the still water.
It reminds you of a placid rivulet, meandering smoothly through green pastures and shaded by pleasant trees, till at last it falls into the vasty sea; but the sea is so calm, so silent, so indifferent, that you are troubled suddenly by a vague uneasiness.
That was three weeks ago and all had gone smoothly so far.
Miss Lydia was a plump, little old maid of thirty-five, with smoothly drawn, tightly twisted hair that made her look still older.
Prioritize those items you are most likely to procrastinate—your day will go much more smoothly when the phone call you're dreading or the report you don't want to write are finished and no longer weighing on your mind.
The team has put finishing touches on cooling and electronic systems involved, and in August, engineers will perform tests to make sure they run smoothly.
