There was a pertness about her that attracted him. From Wordnet, Princeton University.
It is unnecessary to add that the assembled guests, in their disgust at my "pertness," dropped the argument on slavery. From Wordnik.com. [The end of an era,] Reference
But the landlady's pertness seem'd instantly fired. From Wordnik.com. [The Modern Scottish Minstrel , Volume I. The Songs of Scotland of the past half century] Reference
May and enjoy Jane's pertness and Joyce's cleverness and adore. From Wordnik.com. [Judy of York Hill] Reference
Now all her pertness to the former, she says, fly in her face. From Wordnik.com. [Clarissa Harlowe] Reference
In the comedies, pertness and precocious wit can be part of the fun. From Wordnik.com. [Shakespeare]
Persia into their conversation with abominable pertness and frequency. From Wordnik.com. [The Virginians] Reference
He has been allowed to keep his cap, which gives him a certain pertness. From Wordnik.com. [The mission song]
Once, indeed, he was touched to the quick by a piece of schoolboy pertness. From Wordnik.com. [The Life of Oliver Goldsmith] Reference
Do you hear, Mrs. Jervis? said he: do you hear the pertness of the creature?. From Wordnik.com. [Pamela] Reference
The pertness Anna remembered was gone, replaced by hollow eyes and exhaustion. From Wordnik.com. [The Spellsong War]
They made their mistakes, but their bodies were so soft, miracles of pertness. From Wordnik.com. [Here Comes Another Lesson] Reference
Never before did pertness succeed in striking such unexpected fire from genius. From Wordnik.com. [English literary criticism] Reference
Almost Kenny could see him chirking up into insolence and the pertness of a bird. From Wordnik.com. [Kenny] Reference
Formerly she had treated him with the free-and-easy pertness of a precocious child. From Wordnik.com. [Other People's Business The Romantic Career of the Practical Miss Dale] Reference
Being, it may be right to mention, a female of some pertness, though acquainted with her business. From Wordnik.com. [Somebody's Luggage] Reference
She had lost the pertness of youth, but experience had taught her that maturity had its own rewards. From Wordnik.com. [catpewk Diary Entry] Reference
If thou really thinkest thou dost not, thy ignorance is more to be pitied, than thy pertness resented. From Wordnik.com. [Clarissa Harlowe] Reference
Also she hath mended my girl's manners of a hundred little indelicacies gathered from Pratt's pertness. From Wordnik.com. [The Ladies A Shining Constellation of Wit and Beauty] Reference
The clerk who waited on him had the pertness and superior airs of youth, sometimes seen even fifty years ago. From Wordnik.com. [The New England Magazine Volume 1, No. 6, June, 1886, Bay State Monthly Volume 4, No. 6, June, 1886] Reference
The houses have some of the pertness, rawness and obtrusiveness of youth, but it is not the youth of the backwoods. From Wordnik.com. [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 17, No. 097, January, 1876] Reference
It was, in fact, her unchanging pertness and apparent low need of maintenance that had earned her the nickname "Pet.". From Wordnik.com. [Fault Line]
The insolence of the suitors was matched by the pertness of the serving maids, of whom Melantho was the most impudent. From Wordnik.com. [Authors of Greece] Reference
In reference to the flippant pertness of the Board's officials, the Rev.Mr. Townsend, the incumbent of Abbeystowry, said. From Wordnik.com. [The History of the Great Irish Famine of 1847 (3rd ed.) (1902) With Notices of Earlier Irish Famines] Reference
Her nose was slightly retrouss ‚, but not so much so as to give to her that pertness, of which it is usually the index. From Wordnik.com. [The Kellys and the O'Kellys] Reference
Her cunning black eyes and cheerful, ruddy face, enhance the air of pertness that has made her a favorite with her customers. From Wordnik.com. [An Outcast or, Virtue and Faith] Reference
But this young woman was not at all disposed to tremble before him, and was just as far removed from pertness as from humility. From Wordnik.com. [Aunt Rachel] Reference
Thus, pertness succeeds to delicacy, assurance to modesty, and all the vagaries of a listless to the sensibilities of an ingenuous mind. From Wordnik.com. [Sketches of the Fair Sex, in All Parts of the World] Reference
They mistake pertness for wit; audacity for cleverness; disrespect to old age for independence; and general bad manners for individuality. From Wordnik.com. [From a Girl's Point of View] Reference
Tessie tried some of her old-time pertness of speech. From Wordnik.com. [One Basket] Reference
"The same to you, sir," said Mary, with more pertness than logic. From Wordnik.com. [A Terrible Temptation A Story of To-Day] Reference
Her pupil, though wholly without aspirations to pertness, barely faltered. From Wordnik.com. [What Maisie Knew] Reference
"Be silent, Nanny Robson," said the dame; "your pertness teases the gentleman.". From Wordnik.com. [Thaddeus of Warsaw] Reference
There is in this piece more pertness than wit, and more confidence than knowledge. From Wordnik.com. [Johnson's Lives of the Poets — Volume 2] Reference
I've got your letters, and if you give me any pertness I'll send them to your father. From Wordnik.com. [Wuthering Heights] Reference
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