The colonel smiled thinly, then looked up as someone appeared beside him.

Behind his curly beard and mustache, the colonel may have smiled.

I suggested that we should try to reach Bavaria, two hundred miles away, but the colonel only smiled at my idea.

The colonel smiled, as if he had won a wager of some sort.

Then the colonel smiled and shook his hand again.

They said something in Russian, and the colonel smiled.

The colonel smiled and wheeled the car back onto the highway.

"We take a deep breath and release him into the bosom of society," the colonel smiled.

The colonel looked at him and smiled a little.