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  • It certainly wasn't his music, for he edited Mozart in such a jaunty fashion that you thought he was playing "Mack the Knife"; now and then he played "Mack the Knife," too.†   (source)
  • He executes a jaunty hop to the next joist and begins his hammering all over again.†   (source)
  • One day later now, waist-deep in a snowbank, Cassie the ice maiden, with a jaunty little cap made out of snow and frozen hair and ice-encrusted eyelashes, all warm and floaty, dying by inches, but at least dying on her feet trying to keep a promise she had no prayer of keeping.†   (source)
  • In fact, as I watched her, she seemed quite happy, her two brown braids bouncing jauntily in rhythm to her walk.†   (source)
  • Kate said jauntily.†   (source)
  • He searched for her in every young girl's face he saw, in every ponytail that swished by, in every jaunty step of a healthy child on the street.†   (source)
  • Kit leaned sideways to see the letters painted jauntily on the transom.†   (source)
  • "About time," he said jauntily, tossing it onto the baggage cart.†   (source)
  • A cigarette was cocked in one corner of his mouth at a jaunty angle.†   (source)
  • Then he shrugged, looked up, and gave a surprisingly jaunty smile.†   (source)
  • Marla smiled demurely as she held her newborn for the cameras to capture; Donald waved and gave a jaunty wink.†   (source)
  • Its logo sign, a saguaro cactus with a black cowboy hat resting on top of it at a jaunty angle, is brand-new and clean.†   (source)
  • She is a jaunty, stringy, blue-eyed woman, with hair the color of silver and dry grass.†   (source)
  • There was an Irish dancing class going on down the hallway, with music all jaunty and fast, and I stood listening and watching the Christmas lights strung over the front windows as they blinked on and off.†   (source)
  • She was wearing a jaunty shirtwaist, white with small red and blue semaphore flags.†   (source)
  • Pete Snyder steps jauntily through the door of the Disney Hall lobby with a wave and a smile.†   (source)
  • Parker walked out to the fighter jauntily.†   (source)
  • Her jaunty, straight-backed walk was not a child's, and often she entered small boutiques ahead of me and pointed a commanding finger at the perfume or the gloves she would then pay for herself.†   (source)
  • "Oh, well," she said rather jauntily.†   (source)
  • jauntily, she signaled the waiter; then gathered up her great handbag and walked to the ladies' room.†   (source)
  • Carl looked like a stylish figure from the big-band era, wearing a brown checked jacket, a white shirt, a brown tie, and jaunty two-tone shoes.†   (source)
  • "Yeah, well you plus me, we're like MTV plus Lifetime," I say, with as much jauntiness as I can muster.†   (source)
  • Heading homeward, the purchases secure inside a tarpaulin sack, he was grateful that his father had forced him to carry a lantern, and glad, too, that the horse's harness was strung with bells, for both their jaunty racket and the careening light of the kerosene lantern were a comfort to him.†   (source)
  • When the wind was in the north you could hear them, the horses and the breath of the horses and the horses' hooves that were shod in rawhide and the rattle of lances and the constant drag of the travois poles in the sand like the passing of some enormous serpent and the young boys naked on wild horses jaunty as circus riders and hazing wild horses before them and the dogs trotting with their tongues aloll and foot-slaves following half naked and sorely burdened and above all the low chant of their traveling song which the riders sang as they rode, nation and ghost of nation passing in a soft chorale across that mineral waste to darkness bearing los†   (source)
  • She'd wound on a scarf that made him think of Joseph's coat of many colors, which added a jauntiness with her coat opened.†   (source)
  • It takes only a second or two for some eight hundred students to lock onto the backbeat, and the gymnasium starts to thump with a jaunty enthusiasm.†   (source)
  • But then something she had not reckoned with happened: the hat, no longer jaunty or sexy, turned into a monument to time past.†   (source)
  • They'd had a leisurely dinner, bantering with the wine steward and then enjoying a brandy at the bar with old acquaintances because there were old acquaintances wherever J. Edgar Hoover went, some who were loyal supporters, others residing in the files, a few who were enemies-for-life but didn't know it yet, and Edgar and Clyde were in a mellow enough mood, despite reports from the site, seated in the plush rear seat in black tie of course and wearing their masks, like a suave and jaunty crime fighter out of the Sunday comics, a master bureaucrat by day who becomes dashing Maskman at night, cruising the streets in formal dress with his trusted right-hand man.†   (source)
  • Their shoulders drooped even as they laughed, and when they put their hands on their hips in a show of jauntiness, the palms slipped the thighs as if the pants were waxed.†   (source)
  • It was a jaunty tune and unlike anything Mau had heard before.†   (source)
  • He affected an air of jaunty familiarity as he sauntered to the court and prayed silently that he would not be recognized.†   (source)
  • Mortenson saw himself, his arm hooked jauntily over Changazi's shoulder, on the way to K2, and he could hardly believe the photo was only a year old.†   (source)
  • No jaunty war cries came from the veterans.†   (source)
  • His buttons were carved jade monkeys, and atop his wispy white curls perched a jaunty green cap decorated with a fan of peacock feathers.†   (source)
  • Lucy nuzzled his leg and, with a jaunty turn, trotted out into the yard, disappearing behind the fort.†   (source)
  • I jauntily replied, "Of course!" and nearly added, "In fact, I'll have it with you in five minutes' time!"†   (source)
  • The brigadier and the jaunty major divided the men into three groups and got them piled into the trucks.†   (source)
  • Several of the angels going into the club are in old-fashioned gangster zoot suits complete with felt hats and jaunty feathers.†   (source)
  • A couple of men approached, eating up the walk with long jaunty strides that caused their heavy silk sport shirts to flounce rhythmically upon their bodies.†   (source)
  • He looked different from any version of Deo I'd known, not so much confident as fierce, under his jaunty black bush hat, in his aviator-style dark glasses.†   (source)
  • Ahead of them all, ears tipped forward with a jaunty expression, was Seabiscuit's heavy, homely head.†   (source)
  • I gave a little halfwave, hoping it was jaunty, then headed out into the yard.†   (source)
  • He set his hat at a jaunty angle and raised his hand good-bye.†   (source)
  • The green LeMans with its white vinyl top is parked at a jaunty angle in the drive.†   (source)
  • One thing not a surprise because Wyoh and I pushed it through during time we still amounted to something in government: a brass cannon on a pedestal in middle of Old Dome and over it a flag fluttering in blower breeze—black field speckled with stars, bar sinister in blood, a proud and jaunty brass cannon embroidered over all, and below it our motto: TANSTAAFL!†   (source)
  • What I've begun she completes, and within seconds, Nan is with us, her jaunty butterscotch hat securely on her head.†   (source)
  • She brushed out her hair, cut in a becoming style that never touched the collar of her suit jacket, and fastened her jaunty cap, which she had to leave on for the duration of the flight, not that she minded.†   (source)
  • He put on his boater with its wide black band before a mirror, to keep the angle shy of jaunty.†   (source)
  • Clean white shirt, even here, white cuffs, hat cocked forward slightly jauntily, shading his eyes.†   (source)
  • Court's in recess:' Green was almost jaunty as he stepped off the bench.†   (source)
  • He waves it jauntily toward the astonished party.†   (source)
  • That enormous, wonderful porch glimpsed from the street, Merrick and two teenaged friends lounging in this very swing so casually, so stylishly, wearing rolled-up blue jeans and gaily patterned neckerchiefs tied in jaunty knots.†   (source)
  • He became jaunty and talkative as they walked the short distance between the plane and the customs sheds.†   (source)
  • I saw a man, not young, not old, but with a jaunty springy step.†   (source)
  • One totem pole was so old he could discern only the top figure, a bear wearing at a most jaunty angle the lid of a garbage can to keep him from weathering further.†   (source)
  • It is important, though, to note that my grandmother never told me or my father about another slave child—he bore the jaunty name of Artiste—who, like Drusilla and Lucinda, had been "given" to her by her father and then soon after had been sold by him.†   (source)
  • The animals, refreshed, began stepping jauntily again, tossing their heads and jangling the bells that hung from their red-painted horns.†   (source)
  • I waved jauntily in what I thought to be the right direction.†   (source)
  • "Bevel," he said in a loud jaunty voice.†   (source)
  • Their visorless caps with chin straps were tilted jauntily over one ear; it made all of them look one-eyed.†   (source)
  • He lifted his hat with a strange jauntiness which may have stood for pride.†   (source)
  • A man stepped out jauntily.†   (source)
  • As he dressed he whistled jauntily, but with a crestfallen undertone; and his face wore a curious little defeated smile.†   (source)
  • He feels none of the jaunty hopefulness he has just expressed.†   (source)
  • "You could set yourself on fire," Elwood Murray appeared before us, upright and jaunty again.†   (source)
  • A beak-nosed man in a jaunty beret winked at her.†   (source)
  • Asha set the collar on her head at a jaunty angle, so the gold gleamed against her dark hair.†   (source)
  • She even walked perkily, hands jauntily in her pockets as she headed for the candy aisle.†   (source)
  • He started toward the staircase with a jaunty and exhilarated air.†   (source)
  • HORNBECK passes them jauntily, and crosses downstage.†   (source)
  • They're joined by a jaunty whistle that makes my blood run cold.†   (source)
  • As Butch talks, Cedric looks at the cluster of men, hanging out and chatting, jaunty and cool.†   (source)
  • He looked like a tweedy, jaunty prof on a lunchtime errand.†   (source)
  • 'Your appendix is no good,' the Englishman declared with jaunty authority.†   (source)
  • He smelled pleasantly of a light, jaunty cologne.†   (source)
  • The next swings his lathi jauntily; he does not know anything, he will not say.†   (source)
  • He returned frowning, his face obstinate but whistling jauntily.†   (source)
  • She was exhilarated and light-limbed, and swung the sambok jauntily on her wrist.†   (source)
  • He had pinned his Head Boy badge to the fez perched jauntily on top of his neat hair, his horn-rimmed glasses flashing in the Egyptian sun.†   (source)
  • She walked back to the front of the class and stood before them, all the jauntiness she had shown at the beginning of the lesson gone.†   (source)
  • I turn her into Moira, Moira as she was when she was in college, in the roomnext to mine: quirky, jaunty, athletic, with a bicycle once, and a knapsack for hiking.†   (source)
  • He can't sustain his usual jaunty tone.†   (source)
  • He's wearing the uniform of the Guardians, but his cap is tilted at a jaunty angle and his sleeves are rolled to the elbow, showing his forearms, tanned but with a stipple of dark hairs.†   (source)
  • After terse preliminaries in Russian, a baby-faced curly-headed teenager climbed out of the driver's seat and was greeted, by Boris, with a slap on the cheek and a jaunty seven note whistle: On the Good Ship Lollipop.†   (source)
  • "We're escaping," she said jauntily.†   (source)
  • Henderson took the elevator down to the main lobby, looking every inch the senior congressional aide—a three-piece gray suit, an expensive leather attaché case, his hair just so, and his stride jaunty as he left the building.†   (source)
  • Crookshanks leapt lightly off the bed and led the way out of the room, his bottlebrush tail held jauntily high.†   (source)
  • He was dressed in a pair of long, unpatched trousers and, as sticky hot as it was, he wore a suit coat and a tie, and a hat cocked jauntily to one side.†   (source)
  • The real Lockhart was wearing robes of forget-me-not blue that exactly matched his eyes; his pointed wizard's hat was set at a jaunty angle on his wavy hair.†   (source)
  • They'd stopped at The Hollow, in Mellen, and ordered a beer, and as they talked a man walked in followed by a dog, a big dog, gray and white with brown patches, some mix of husky and shepherd or something of that kind, a deep-chested beast with a regal bearing and a joyful, jaunty carriage.†   (source)
  • As the Count turned to go, an American who had commandeered the piano began performing a jaunty little number that celebrated a lack of bananas, a lack of bananas today.†   (source)
  • But then he saw who it was, and gave a jaunty wave, which was at least a friendly sign and the first one he'd given me.†   (source)
  • The place is far from new; indeed it's almost seedy, despite its jaunty modernity — the pale-yellow tiles, the white plastic tables bolted to the floor, their moulded chairs attached.†   (source)
  • She still had that jauntiness.†   (source)
  • On Christmas Eve, at about eight p.m., the sauerkraut dish was made and the chicken (which we'd figured how to cook from the package instructions) had about ten minutes before it came out of the oven when my dad — whistling "Deck the Halls" — came up and rapped jauntily on a kitchen cabinet to get our attention.†   (source)
  • When the Count left the Boyarsky with his white jacket draped across his arm, there was a smile on his lips and a jauntiness to his step.†   (source)
  • When he turned back, Essay was already trotting into the circle of the porch light, her gait jaunty, her tail slashing prettily through the air, swinging her front legs in wide circles as she ran, as if greeting a long-lost friend.†   (source)
  • For instance: Richard and myself, sixty-four years ago, coming down the gangway of the Berengeria on the far shore of the Atlantic Ocean, his hat at a jaunty angle, my gloved hand resting lightly on his arm — the newly wedded couple on their honeymoon.†   (source)
  • He would go out of the house as jaunty as a rooster, pretending to look for work, but I knew where he was off to, I could tell by the smell of him when he came back.†   (source)
  • He'd watched other men hit on her—studly students and even the occasional jaunty and ridiculous professor.†   (source)
  • Some are respectably dressed, in tailored Harris tweed coats and matching gloves and tidy no-nonsense hats with small brisk feathers jauntily at one side.†   (source)
  • Max gaped as Connor Lynch strode confidently into the room, giving a jaunty salute to Vilyak before taking a seat on the first bench.†   (source)
  • "Have a good night," I called out as they left, Marion still mad and not looking back, Steve waving jauntily out the door.†   (source)
  • I'd pictured myself, dressed in a neat blue serge suit, my money changer swinging jauntily at my waist, and a cheery smile for the passengers which would make their own work day brighter.†   (source)
  • With a satisfied grin, he flung his duster and goggles into the back seat, put on his cap at a jaunty angle, climbed in, and yelled over the racket, "Now then, I'm a'go'n drive this son-of-a-gun.†   (source)
  • As he was brought into the warehouse, Smith recognized his old foe, Dewey; he stopped chewing a hunk of Doublemint gum he had in his mouth, and grinned and winked at Dewey, jaunty and mischievous.†   (source)
  • "You never know," Denny said, and he chose a roll from the bread basket and gave it a jaunty upward toss before setting it on his plate.†   (source)
  • The artists at the Bedford shop in 'Pindi had welded a jaunty extension to the truckbed, which hung over the cab like a hat worn at a rakish angle.†   (source)
  • They heard somewhere in that tenantless night a bell that tolled and ceased where no bell was and they rode out on the round dais of the earth which alone was dark and no light to it and which carried their figures and bore them up into the swarming stars so that they rode not under but among them and they rode at once jaunty and circumspect, like thieves newly loosed in that dark electric, like young thieves in a glowing orchard, loosely jacketed against the cold and ten thousand worlds for the choosing.†   (source)
  • Alcohol's a depressant, it will let me down later, but right now I'm jaunty, I hum to myself, mouth slightly open.†   (source)
  • "Here we go," said Ida, jauntily, seeming, in an instant, to drag all of herself up from the depths, as though she were about to walk that mile from the wings to the stage.†   (source)
  • DRUMMOND snaps the suspenders jauntily†   (source)
  • Jaunty hat.†   (source)
  • Where she found the time, and still managed to practically run that big house" and be a straight-A student, the president of her class, a leader in the 4-H program and the Young Methodists League, a skilled rider, an excellent musician (piano, clarinet), an annual winner at the county fair (pastry, preserves, needlework, flower arrangement)-how a girl not yet seventeen could haul such a wagonload, and do so without "brag," with, rather, merely a radiant jauntiness, was an enigma the community pondered, and solved by saying, "She's got character.†   (source)
  • Mrs. Finestein has taken to wearing fitted red suits and jaunty pillbox hats trimmed with matching cherries.†   (source)
  • Cedric stares back at Dr. Jones, wondering what a person in a fine leather jacket and jaunty cap-clearly a player-might respond to such a command.†   (source)
  • General Peckem chuckled with jaunty relish and sailed smoothly along toward a favorite learned allusion.†   (source)
  • Finally, the coup de grace: a jaunty "apple cap," a pinwheel of black leather with a tiny stem in the center.†   (source)
  • Here, it's a day for her to be proud, but she can't help staring at them— these smiling, polished people-and overhearing their jaunty melody of generational succession: a child's footsteps following their own, steps on a path that leads to prosperity's table and a saved seat right next to Mom and Dad.†   (source)
  • "As Cedric's spiritual godfather," Long said, jauntily holding the hand mike like a talk-show host, "I'm obligated to ask how things are going at Brown University."†   (source)
  • Adam's father Cyrus was something of a devil—had always been wild—drove a two-wheeled cart too fast, and managed to make his wooden leg seem jaunty and desirable.†   (source)
  • She hurried up the steps, smiling a little at this fancy: it was because he looked so young and defenseless as he walked away, and yet so jaunty and strong.†   (source)
  • But nobody's killed," June Star said with disappointment as the grandmother limped out of the car, her hat still pinned to her head but the broken front brim standing up at a, jaunty angle and the violet spray hanging off the side.†   (source)
  • She moved jauntily, stepping with outrageous fastidiousness amid the litter of the street, the chewed sugar cane, the trampled sweetmeats, the red betel-nut spittle; jauntily, a half-smile on her lips answering the jeers and calls that were thrown at her, eyes darting quickly round searching, then retreating behind half-drawn lids.†   (source)
  • He spoke quite jauntily and freely, his face clear from that load of worry, his hands in his pockets.†   (source)
  • It was a trick of his; he stuck his hands in his pockets, little boy fashion, and whistled with a pathetic jauntiness when she lost her temper and raged at him because of the house, or because of the clumsiness of the water arrangements.†   (source)
  • Then my father was called; he came forward jauntily, smiling.†   (source)
  • Al strolled jauntily along the row of tents.†   (source)
  • His manner is full of a forced, jaunty self-assurance.†   (source)
  • A veneer of jaunty self-confidence thinly concealed his nervousness.†   (source)
  • Then he asked with a kind of false jauntiness, 'And when, if I may ask.†   (source)
  • His black derby was cocked jauntily and he was smoking a cigar.†   (source)
  • He was dressed jauntily, and he twinkled with his old gallantry as he kissed Mrs. Keating's hand.†   (source)
  • The jaunty intern made a quick and careful examination.†   (source)
  • The voice was that of a jaunty young Alpha, who had entered carrying a black iron cash-box.†   (source)
  • He buttoned up his coat jauntily and Francie saw that he wore their father's signet ring.†   (source)
  • Their trousers hung just so and their hats sat jauntily on their head.†   (source)
  • He put his coat on and buttoned it up jauntily.†   (source)
  • In the morning the ponies were part of the parade, walking in a prim straight line, their hoofbeats neat and dainty on the hot pavement, and jaunty red and blue pompons stuck behind their ears.†   (source)
  • But that turban was pushed pretty far back at a jaunty angle, for the front part of his head was exposed.†   (source)
  • [He grins and ducks jauntily out†   (source)
  • In Europe my wife was sometimes taken for an American because of her dapper and jaunty way of dressing, and the curiously hygienic quality of her prettiness; in America she assumed an English softness and reticence.†   (source)
  • They marched in good order, jaunty for all their rags, their torn red battle flags flying in the rain.†   (source)
  • He had to get under, get out and get under—" With a jaunty, swaggering stride and nasal hum and toothy whistle, a tall, square-shouldered man drew abreast.†   (source)
  • LEWIS—(turns with humiliated rage—with an attempt at jaunty casualness) Right you are, Mister Bloody Nosey Parker!†   (source)
  • He was dirty and unshaven and without a cravat but somehow jaunty despite his dishabille, and his dark eyes were snapping joyfully at the sight of her.†   (source)
  • Which was: Tiny Duffy sitting in a great soft leather chair with his great soft hams flowing over the leather, and his great soft belly flowing over his great soft hams, and a long cigarette holder with a burning cigarette stuck jauntily out from one side of his face (the cigarette holder was a recent innovation, imitated from a gentleman who was the most prominent member of the political party to which Tiny Duffy gave his allegiance) and his great soft face flowing down over his collar, and a diamond ring on his finger, big as a walnut—for all of that was Tiny Duffy, who was no†   (source)
  • LEWIS—(attempting a return of his jaunty manner, as if nothing had happened) Well, time I was on my merry way to see my chap at the Consulate.†   (source)
  • There were graybeards older than her father trying to step jauntily along in the needlefine rain to the rhythm of the fife and drum corps.†   (source)
  • But as she hurried toward the incensed group, she saw Rhett bow jauntily and start toward the doorway through the crowd.†   (source)
  • Scarlett shivered as she watched him run down the walk to the carriage, his saber glinting in the feeble winter sunlight, the fringe of his sash dancing jauntily.†   (source)
  • "Why?" he laughed jauntily.†   (source)
  • He stood up while nursing, an elbow on his mother's knee, his feet crossed jauntily and his eyes roving around the room.†   (source)
  • In the militia, there were many middle-aged men and some older men but there was a fair sprinkling of men of military age who did not carry themselves quite so jauntily as their elders or their juniors.†   (source)
  • In this male attire her mirror showed her a jaunty, handsome rider.†   (source)
  • And on his head was a small, round, pill-box cap, which was cocked jauntily over one ear.†   (source)
  • A hat of a prevailing fashion perched jauntily upon her dark hair.†   (source)
  • And although this harmless vice added a jaunty touch to his appearance.†   (source)
  • With unnecessary jauntiness he chuckled, "Some nice flannels, them samples, heh?"†   (source)
  • The moon shone upon him, and I could distinguish the dapper shape and jaunty walk of the naturalist.†   (source)
  • His big slouch hat even was cocked jauntily over the bed-post.†   (source)
  • The brigade was jaunty and seemed to point a proud thumb at the yelling wood.†   (source)
  • His breeches, his white rubber shoes and his jauntily slung waterproof expressed youth.†   (source)
  • As we walked toward the house, Cuzak cocked his hat jauntily over one ear and looked up at the moon.†   (source)
  • She went to Vida with a jaunty, "I think I shall work for you.†   (source)
  • But he moved very quickly, and there was an air of jaunty liveliness about him.†   (source)
  • Snap Naab had a springy step and jaunty mien.†   (source)
  • He particularly disliked one "new" song to a jaunty dance-tune.†   (source)
  • 'Mahbub Ali is in Umballa,' said the writer jauntily.†   (source)
  • "Close up!" came the company commander's voice in jaunty tones.†   (source)
  • All we Babus talk English to show off;' said Hurree, flinging his shoulder-cloth jauntily.†   (source)
  • Anatole followed him with his usual jaunty step but his face betrayed anxiety.†   (source)
  • I noticed that she wore her evening-dress, all her dresses, like sports clothes — there was a jauntiness about her movements as if she had first learned to walk upon golf courses on clean, crisp mornings.†   (source)
  • When he came to the fence at the edge of the road and confronted Hal Winters, all dressed up and smoking a pipe as he walked jauntily along, he could not have told what he thought or what he wanted.†   (source)
  • Carrie had thought of going for a walk, and had put on a light gray woolen dress with a jaunty double-breasted jacket.†   (source)
  • There were a few middle-aged and even elderly women in the train, their silver-wiry hair and wrinkled faces, scourged by time and trouble, having almost a grotesque, certainly a pathetic, appearance in such a jaunty situation.†   (source)
  • As Amedee was not on the engine, Emil rode on to the wheatfield, where he recognized, on the header, the slight, wiry figure of his friend, coatless, his white shirt puffed out by the wind, his straw hat stuck jauntily on the side of his head.†   (source)
  • His was the gait of the wolf, smooth, tireless and effortless, and at the end of fifty miles he would come in jauntily ahead of the horse.†   (source)
  • He wore the old slouch hat jauntily and, as always, a tuft of tow-colored hair stuck out through a hole in its crown.†   (source)
  • Now he walked jauntily, and smiled to himself, seeing the frown that came to the boss's face as the timekeeper said, "Mr. Harmon says to put this man on."†   (source)
  • Henceforth, it is to be thought, he quite forgave himself for the affair at Cluny's; cocked his hat again, walked jauntily, whistled airs, and looked at me upon one side with a provoking smile.†   (source)
  • The crazy foundation stones still marked the former site of my poor little cabin, and not far away, on six weary boulders, perched a jaunty board house, perhaps twenty by thirty feet, with three windows and a door that locked.†   (source)
  • There was a sallow-faced, mean little chap with his arm in a sling, and a long individual in a blue flannel coat, as dry as a chip and no stouter than a broomstick, with drooping grey moustaches, who looked about him with an air of jaunty imbecility.†   (source)
  • Some of them were remarkably agreeable: No Smoking became a jaunty and agreeable "gnikoms on," and Broadway was tolerable as "yawdaorb," but he was displeased by his attempts on Punch, Health, Rough; while Strength, turning into "htgnerts" was abominable.†   (source)
  • To his sculptor he owes a perfectly trained figure, which he carries erect and trim; and the ends of his moustache curl up, elastic as watchsprings, giving him an air which, but for its Spanish dignity, would be called jaunty.†   (source)
  • He walked jauntily away, being hungry, and the unfortunate Matthew was left to do that which was harder for him than bearding a lion in its den—walk up to a girl—a strange girl—an orphan girl—and demand of her why she wasn't a boy.†   (source)
  • "You don't look so—" he fought for a word, "—so jaunty as you used to, so spruce, you know what I mean."†   (source)
  • One, a compact little fellow, swarthy, his dark hair long and flowing, with jaunty and alert air, was Dene, the outlaw leader.†   (source)
  • It was obvious at a glance that the original Weltlust had come back; that he had restored himself, as nearly as a man could do who had grown three or four years older, to the old jaunty, slapdash guise under which Tess had first known her admirer, and cousin so-called.†   (source)
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