"An old acquaintance," Balthasar said again, with the same maddening smile on his lips.

She gives me a maddening smile, then walks over to a concrete wall overlooking the river and sets the cage on top.

"They didn't know anything about you, either, Peter," Basil said with a maddening smile.

"Oh, a little rain doesn't bother me," she replied, giving her aunt a maddening smile.

After a moment she left, still with that maddening smile.

"Outer space would give the lie to that assertion," says Zeus with a maddening smile.

Her head was tilting and her whole face began to form that maddening smile.

He maintained a maddening smile on his flowmetal face.

All the while, that maddening smile curled his lips.

She turns to face him, angered by his maddening faun-like smile.