Locks and latches are unknown in this free-and-easy region.    From Wordnik.com.  [Captain Canot or, Twenty Years of an African Slaver] Reference

I queried in the most free-and-easy manner, without taking off my cap.    From Wordnik.com.  [Punin and Baburin] Reference

Nekhludoff said, more and more astonished by her free-and-easy manner.    From Wordnik.com.  [Resurrection] Reference

Edward has red hair, a robust appearance, and a free-and-easy way with him.    From Wordnik.com.  [Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 152, January 31, 1917] Reference

His free-and-easy way has secured him a large circle of acquaintance there.    From Wordnik.com.  [Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 152, January 31, 1917] Reference

He stood in a free-and-easy pose, his arms akimbo, and did not touch his cap.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Diary of a Superfluous Man and other stories] Reference

Is there not a free-and-easy side of existence, as well as vexation and sorrow?.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 04, No. 22, August, 1859] 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

Anisim, slightly drunk, opened the door into the kitchen and said in a free-and-easy way.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Witch, and other stories] Reference

He was acting the part of land-lord of a gratuitous "free-and-easy," in the hope of making.    From Wordnik.com.  [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 15, No. 87, March, 1875] Reference

‘You cannot be aware who I am,’ I rejoined, in a manner no longer free-and-easy, but haughty.    From Wordnik.com.  [Punin and Baburin] Reference

The drivers are charmingly independent and undeniably free-and-easy birds, but not meaning to be uncivil.    From Wordnik.com.  [Lands of the Slave and the Free Cuba, the United States, and Canada] Reference

But I cannot recall under his gentle rule anything quite so free-and-easy as Mr. HENDERSON'S visit to Paris.    From Wordnik.com.  [Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 153, August 8, 1917] Reference

A dissolute, licentious, free-and-easy life is filled with the dregs of human suffering, iniquity and despair.    From Wordnik.com.  [Searchlights on Health: Light on Dark Corners A Complete Sexual Science and a Guide to Purity and Physical Manhood, Advice To Maiden, Wife, And Mother, Love, Courtship, And Marriage] Reference

Angelo thought he had a pleasant free-and-easy way of talking; Luigi thought it was more so than was agreeable.    From Wordnik.com.  [Pudd'nhead Wilson] Reference

On we go, merrily; Jehu, a free-and-easy, well-informed companion, guessing at certainties and calculating on facts.    From Wordnik.com.  [Lands of the Slave and the Free Cuba, the United States, and Canada] Reference

I cried, seizing my cap, with an astonishingly free-and-easy air, which was the last thing I should have expected of myself.    From Wordnik.com.  [Notes from Underground] Reference

He was, however, an off-hand, free-and-easy fellow, with many generous qualities, which made him popular with most who knew him.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Continental Monthly, Vol. 2, No. 1, July, 1862] Reference

Though he had perhaps prepared a free-and-easy opening for the conversation on his way, now he completely lost the thread of it.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Brothers Karamazov] Reference

What is more, her demonstrative ways and free-and-easy talk put even those of a born coquette to shame, with the result that while.    From Wordnik.com.  [Hung Lou Meng] Reference

“Certainly, why not?” answered the landowner and, moving in a free-and-easy way to the middle of the room, he spoke as follows.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Dog] Reference

These men might have been excused for speaking in a somewhat free-and-easy tone to a lady riding alone, and in an unwonted fashion.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Lady's Life in the Rocky Mountains] Reference

Singles, buy a bottle of imported tequila and go to one of those anti-Valentine parties where you'll meet other free-and-easy souls.    From Wordnik.com.  [Letter From New York: Hallmark Is on the March!] Reference

Seems to me, with all his free-and-easy ways, and his living like one of us, he's a bit close-fisted -- not a bit like the old major.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Village by the River] Reference

Well, the three dined in state at six with Madame Giche; the children were having a rather free-and-easy time of it, for their governess, Miss.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Heiress of Wyvern Court] Reference

Maybe I judge them harshly when I persuade myself that the records of their past could not stand the open daylight of a free-and-easy discussion.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Doctor's Daughter] Reference

Remarkably upright and somewhat pompous in his gait, and abominating the free-and-easy manners of the modern school, his bow would have graced the court of.    From Wordnik.com.  [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 54, No. 334, August 1843] Reference

In appearance mine host was round and jovial; his bulk bespoke hearty living; his rosy face reflected good cheer; his stentorian voice, free-and-easy hospitality.    From Wordnik.com.  [Under the Rose] Reference

Fielding's influence shows also in the free-and-easy picaresque structure of his plots; though this results also in part from his desultory method of composition.    From Wordnik.com.  [A History of English Literature] Reference

I was on duty down by the river hardly two hours after it happened, and as there is no firing now along the picket line the soldiers were free-and-easy on both sides.    From Wordnik.com.  [Red-Tape and Pigeon-Hole Generals As Seen From the Ranks During a Campaign in the Army of the Potomac] Reference

His clothing was none of the best; his face was scarred in several places; and there was a free-and-easy manner about him, very different from that of the other competitors.    From Wordnik.com.  [Amos Huntingdon] Reference