And to each of them the little slyboots replied. From Wordnik.com. [Stories to Tell to Children] Reference
“He is not named Finot” (finaud, slyboots) “for nothing,” said Lucien. From Wordnik.com. [A Distinguished Provincial at Paris] Reference
I'm sure they are busy and after all, they would be doing all the work unless you HAVE been training her, you slyboots. From Wordnik.com. [Would you have labor induced to deliver a 20-week-old fetus that had already died?] Reference
“Still, that old slyboots of a paper-maker must not overreach us; it is time to ask him for something besides promises.”. From Wordnik.com. [Eve and David] Reference
“Whereupon I wrote a line to my dear boy, the Honourable William Guppy, informing him of the appointment for to – night and advising him not to call before, Boguey being a slyboots.”. From Wordnik.com. [Bleak House] Reference
It was probably the most remarkable political conversion of the era—a Jacksonian politician known as a smooth and calculating slyboots now becoming the leader of a dissident minority bent on destroying the old political order on behalf of a moral conviction. From Wordnik.com. [A Country of Vast Designs] Reference
Are you very sure that Antoinette may not be a slyboots?. From Wordnik.com. [Samuel Brohl and Company] Reference
"A clever person like yourself can easily correct that" (she, the slyboots, was thinking of something else). From Wordnik.com. [The Luck of Roaring Camp and Other Tales With Condensed Novels, Spanish and American Legends, and Earlier Papers] Reference
"Still, that old slyboots of a paper-maker must not overreach us; it is time to ask him for something besides promises.". From Wordnik.com. [Eve and David] Reference
But, Truth is such a flyaway, such a slyboots, so untransportable and unbarrelable a commodity, that it is as bad to catch as light. From Wordnik.com. [Nature: Addresses and Lectures (1849)] Reference
We hide things like a slyboots, we'd rather die than breathe a word; we're not even considerate enough to enliven our home by relating what we've seen. '. From Wordnik.com. [La faute de l'Abbe Mouret] Reference
"Whereupon I wrote a line to my dear boy, the Honourable William Guppy, informing him of the appointment for to-night and advising him not to call before, Boguey being a slyboots.". From Wordnik.com. [Bleak House]
Royal Highness the Princess's name, whom he fondly, madly, devotedly, rapturously loves, I may show you her portrait, 'says this slyboots: and leading the Princess up to a gilt frame, he drew a curtain which was before it. From Wordnik.com. [The Rose and the Ring] Reference
For all their plotting, the audience feels that the old woman is more malevolent than either son or granddaughter, and, after all, the son had worked hard on the home place and the granddaughter, slyboots as she was, undoubtedly was really kind. From Wordnik.com. [Irish Plays and Playwrights] Reference
Ah, slyboots that she is! "laughs Mrs. Talbot merrily. From Wordnik.com. [The Haunted Chamber A Novel] Reference
BELLA: (ADMIRINGLY) You’re such a slyboots, old cocky. From Wordnik.com. [Ulysses] Reference
Princess’s name, whom he fondly, madly, devotedly, rapturously loves, I may show you her portrait,” says this slyboots: and leading the Princess up to a gilt frame, he drew a curtain which was before it. From Wordnik.com. [The Rose and the Ring] Reference
But you're a slyboots. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2009-09-01] Reference
You were being a slyboots, right?. From Wordnik.com. [Why Wayne Koestenbaum Dyed His Hair Red] Reference
“Ah, but you were sleeping, slyboots.”. From Wordnik.com. [The Magic Skin] Reference
“You are a little slyboots,” she said. From Wordnik.com. [War and Peace] Reference
My lord burst out, with a laugh and an oath -- "You young slyboots, you've been at Nancy Sievewright. From Wordnik.com. [The History of Henry Esmond, Esq. A Colonel in the Service of Her Majesty Queen Anne] Reference
My lord burst out, with a laugh and an oath — “You young slyboots, you’ve been at Nancy Sievewright. From Wordnik.com. [The History of Henry Esmond] Reference
"Two days after your departure -- for it was you, slyboots, who got the affair away from my proprietor -- some men came here and rid me of that arrogant old fool and all his belongings. From Wordnik.com. [The Brotherhood of Consolation] Reference
Royal Highness the Princess's name, whom he fondly, madly, devotedly, rapturously loves, I may show you her portrait, "says this slyboots: and leading the Princess up to a gilt frame, he drew a curtain which was before it. From Wordnik.com. [The Christmas Books of Mr. M.A. Titmarsh] Reference
He's an old slyboots, who has had some post, I fancy, in the administration of the national domain, or something of that kind, under government; in which, I think, he must have been employed in the departments suppressed under the Empire. ". From Wordnik.com. [The Lesser Bourgeoisie] Reference
You're a real slyboots. From Wordnik.com. [Mary's Meadow And Other Tales of Fields and Flowers] Reference
The slyboots! she won't answer!. From Wordnik.com. [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference
"You are a little slyboots," she said. From Wordnik.com. [War and Peace] Reference
"Ah, but you were sleeping, slyboots.". From Wordnik.com. [The Magic Skin] Reference
And to each of them the little slyboots replied. From Wordnik.com. [Boys and Girls Bookshelf; a Practical Plan of Character Building, Volume I (of 17) Fun and Thought for Little Folk] Reference
Marshall McLuhan was such a slyboots. From Wordnik.com. [futureofthebook.com] Reference
Double-stockings and slyboots. From Wordnik.com. [Mary's Meadow; and Letters From a Little Garden] Reference
This slyboots!. From Wordnik.com. [A Dream of the North Sea] Reference
A pair of slyboots, with cheek pressed to cheek. From Wordnik.com. [A Love Episode] Reference
Double-stockings and slyboots. ". From Wordnik.com. [Mary's Meadow And Other Tales of Fields and Flowers] Reference
Oh, you slyboots!” says the Countess. From Wordnik.com. [The Virginians] Reference
Fie, you slyboots! "she crowed with glee. From Wordnik.com. [My Friend Prospero] Reference
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