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attractively small & well-shaped

He has nothing in the world that I know of but a dozen or two of early masters and a more or less pert little daughter.
Henry James -- The Portrait of a Lady - Volume 1

Link Stevens appeared suddenly to grow lax, shriveled, to lose all his peculiar pert brightness, to weaken and age.
Zane Grey -- The Light of Western Stars
"Yes, she did," said another Squirrel, even perter.
C.S. Lewis -- The Silver Chair
With sunlight not on my helmet I could see stars, but inner pert of binox were hard to position—had to twist around and raise up on right elbow.
Robert A. Heinlein -- The Moon is a Harsh Mistress
[Smiling at her pertness.
Oscar Wilde -- An Ideal Husband

(Editor's note: The suffix "-ness" converts an adjective to a noun that means the quality of. This is the same pattern you see in words like darkness, kindness, and coolness.)

A pert servant, Master Samwise.
J.R.R. Tolkien -- The Two Towers
You look pert this mornin', sir.
Michael Shaara -- The Killer Angels
The pert, meagre word fell to the ground.
E.M. Forster -- A Passage to India
She saw Martin come aboard at Blackwater, and pertly noted the friends who saw him off—two Englishmen, one puffy, one rangy, and a drylooking Scotsman.
Sinclair Lewis -- Arrowsmith
This pert Berowne was out of countenance quite.
William Shakespeare -- Love's Labour's Lost
— Now come, my Ariel! bring a corollary, Rather than want a spirit: appear, and pertly.
William Shakespeare -- The Tempest
—Here cometh the worthy prelate, as pert as a pyet.
Sir Walter Scott -- Ivanhoe
We been living in Knoxvul since pert near two years before Rufus was born.
James Agee -- A Death in the Family
Her pert face looked up at him, half serious, half amused.
Alfred Bester -- The Demolished Man
LIZA [pertly] You'd better leave a note for Mrs. Pearce about the coffee; for she won't be told by me.
George Bernard Shaw -- Pygmalion
Ruthie said pertly, "It ain't no crazier'n a lot of things.
John Steinbeck -- The Grapes of Wrath
25 for a bottle of Pert, or $16 for a box fan.
Jodi Picoult -- Nineteen Minutes
So you, a pert Puss, would look upon him face to face.
C.S. Lewis -- The Last Battle
With a pert little glance toward the storeroom that said she was letting them out a minute early, she waved her magic ruler and released them.
Ouida Sebestyen -- Words by Heart
Of all I've seen, beyond compare; So sweetly virtuous and pure, And yet a little pert, be sure!
Goethe (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe) -- Faust

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