Time to give someone else, she adds with a hard little smile, "the joy that I've had for so many years."

I imagined a hard little smile on his face.

Rod jerked the left side of his mouth into a hard smile.

She looked at me with a small, hard smile.

He smiled a hard smile again, in spite of himself.

A hard smile on his lips, he addressed the crystal.

Thaler was watching me with a hard small smile in eyes and mouth.

He said it with a hard smile, and went on writing.

Monk asked, his lips drawn back in a hard smile.

The young man paused before giving him a thin, hard smile.