She was persuaded the minx was a sly one, and would carry tales. From Wordnik.com. [St. George and St. Michael] Reference
It is to be feared that "minx" was the only right word for Joan. From Wordnik.com. [The Summons] Reference
The "minx" had lost her colour, and, for the moment, her prettiness. From Wordnik.com. [Sir George Tressady — Volume II] Reference
An artful minx, that is the only explanation. From Wordnik.com. [The Fawn Gloves] Reference
And how dare you encourage him, you insolent minx?. From Wordnik.com. [Oliver Twist] Reference
She had a suspicion that he did not, the clever minx!. From Wordnik.com. [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference
Bind that minx first, the one who speaks so prettily!. From Wordnik.com. [Lysistrata] Reference
Rather too proud of her good looks, and a selfish minx. From Wordnik.com. [Forty-one Thieves A Tale of California] Reference
You cannot make a limousine lady out of a hillman minx. From Wordnik.com. [Finnegans Wake] Reference
I think the minx used to do it on purpose to make me blush. From Wordnik.com. [Through Wolfs Eyes] Reference
He had known that this girl could be a very minx when piqued. From Wordnik.com. [The Palace of Darkened Windows] Reference
Was she taunting me with mock-innocent hints, the damned minx?. From Wordnik.com. [Flashman and The Redskins]
She looked an untidy minx, but she was quick and handy enough. From Wordnik.com. [The Prussian Officer and Other Stories] Reference
I never did like that HYGEIA, a pompous and nose-poking minx. From Wordnik.com. [Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 101, September 5, 1891] Reference
"I'll take you minx with that cajoling tongue of yours" she cried. From Wordnik.com. [Hung Lou Meng, Book II Or, the Dream of the Red Chamber, a Chinese Novel in Two Books] Reference
He was a nice and right-minded young man and she was an utter minx. From Wordnik.com. [The Palace of Darkened Windows] Reference
Well, he'll get his deserts yet, if he gets you, you deceiving minx. From Wordnik.com. [McClure's Magazine, Vol. 6, No. 6, May, 1896] Reference
Corrie-Lyn produced a minx smile and held up the little plastic kube. From Wordnik.com. [The Dreaming Void]
"You are a saucy minx," Miss Jemima was saying, in her sharpest tones. From Wordnik.com. [The Golden Shoemaker or 'Cobbler' Horn] Reference
Yum Yum was, a dainty minx with a piquant expression and winning ways. From Wordnik.com. [The Cat Who Came To Breakfast]
"Go your own way, you ungrateful minx," was Mrs. Fenton's parting shot. From Wordnik.com. [Madame Flirt A Romance of 'The Beggar's Opera'] Reference
What are you doing your dirty minx and his big treeblock way up your path?. From Wordnik.com. [Finnegans Wake] Reference
"I'll look after the minx, and tell her some useful truth now and then, too.". From Wordnik.com. [Ainslee's, Vol. 15, No. 6, July 1905] Reference
‘Part temptress, part ingénue, part minx — a tantalising combination.’. From Wordnik.com. [The Rich Man's Royal Mistress]
"Why, minx, thou art as much flustrated as if thou wert to be married thyself.". From Wordnik.com. [The Knight of the Golden Melice A Historical Romance] Reference
Perfect Pink your tantalizing pear shape makes my fingers tremble, cursed minx. From Wordnik.com. [Balloons.] Reference
The tantalizing minx knew very well that Miss Thorne could only judge by observation. From Wordnik.com. [The Continental Monthly, Vol. 4, No. 6, December 1863 Devoted to Literature and National Policy] Reference
"What a little minx that girl is!" he said to himself as he turned to light the lamps. From Wordnik.com. [Flint His Faults, His Friendships and His Fortunes] Reference
We first met Clara Denny effervescent, winning, almost charming -- a sixteen-year-old minx. From Wordnik.com. [Our Nervous Friends — Illustrating the Mastery of Nervousness] Reference
Thanks to our labours, this will mean increasingly: “Make me a minx, a moron, and a parasite.”. From Wordnik.com. [On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with...] Reference
“It would be a very fine sight indeed,” said this illbred minx, “to see me go draw water.”. From Wordnik.com. [The Blue Fairy Book] Reference
If he couldn't, he'd bet his last farthing Amanda could — practical, wonderful minx that she was. From Wordnik.com. [Hero Come Back]
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