Seems like Miss Daisy ain't lookin 'peart, this mornin'.    From Wordnik.com.  [Daisy] Reference

One might have ventured to call her "peart," I think).    From Wordnik.com.  [Deephaven and Selected Stories & Sketches] Reference

An 'li'l black Mose he hop offen dat stump right peart.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Boy Scouts Book of Campfire Stories] Reference

# Sara Gengeon 24 Oct 2007 at 3:01 pm 1. Haplo peart Says.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Big Three « Whatever] Reference

They was walked in a peart pace and the guards and traders rode.    From Wordnik.com.  [Slave Narratives: a Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves Arkansas Narratives, Part 7] Reference

He wuz peart en soopl ', quick ez lightnin', en sha'p ez a razor.    From Wordnik.com.  [Martin Luther King, Jr. Day, 1995, Memorial Issue] Reference

Miss Ann -- she was right little an 'young then but mighty peart.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Son of the Hills] Reference

"I don't feel right peart to-day," he said, shambling off down the path.    From Wordnik.com.  [Janice Day at Poketown] Reference

As to the little dog I should like to keep him, he's so pretty and peart.    From Wordnik.com.  [Dick Lionheart] Reference

Barrin 'ye ar' a right peart-lookin 'kid, stranger, allow me ter speculate thet it would take.    From Wordnik.com.  [Deadwood Dick, The Prince of the Road or, The Black Rider of the Black Hills] Reference

'Mr. Symes,' says he, 'it's a-bloawin' right smart peart, an 'I don't see fitten for to lower.'.    From Wordnik.com.  [Swept Out to Sea Clint Webb Among the Whalers] Reference

'Mr. Symes,' says he, 'it's a bloawin' right smart peart, and I don't see fitten for to lower. '.    From Wordnik.com.  [Swept Out to Sea Clint Webb Among the Whalers] Reference

Ef you be right peart, Brer Fox, you'll ketch 'im.'.    From Wordnik.com.  [Nights With Uncle Remus Myths and Legends of the Old Plantation] Reference

"I never seed you lookin 'so peart and sassy before.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Tales of the Argonauts] Reference

You got to hab a strong back and feel peart all ober.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Earth Trembled] Reference

"She ain't pretty, I know, but she air powerful peart.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Down the Ravine] Reference

"I swan; but you're a peart chap. What wages do you git?".    From Wordnik.com.  [The Telegraph Messenger Boy The Straight Road to Success] Reference

An 'li'l' black Mose he hop 'offen dat stump right peart.    From Wordnik.com.  [Humorous Ghost Stories] Reference

Oh, it's jist like her sass, for she's peart ez a Katydid.    From Wordnik.com.  [Complete Poetical Works] Reference

Perhaps it was injudicious of the fair ladie to be so "peart.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Royal Edinburgh Her Saints, Kings, Prophets and Poets] Reference

It might hev been for an hour, when suddent and peart and nigh.    From Wordnik.com.  [Complete Poetical Works] Reference

He aint got no bag fer ter tote, en he pick up he foots mighty peart.    From Wordnik.com.  [Nights With Uncle Remus Myths and Legends of the Old Plantation] Reference

"You're not so peart as you was, Esmeraldy," he remarked, tremulously.    From Wordnik.com.  [Esmeralda] Reference

He ain't got no bag fer ter tote, en he pick up he foots mighty peart.    From Wordnik.com.  [Nights With Uncle Remus] Reference

"What a peart kitten ye be!" smiled the man, looking at him quizzically.    From Wordnik.com.  [Far Past the Frontier] Reference

"Miss Daisy ain't looking quite so peart as she use to look," Maria went on.    From Wordnik.com.  [Daisy] Reference

"A while ago he was all down in the mouth, and now he's peart as a cricket.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Uncle Tom's Cabin] Reference

Blamed if a peart youngster didn't yell, 'Hi, there, sausage,' as I come in town.    From Wordnik.com.  [Old Ebenezer] Reference

He went right off dat a-way, Brer Fox, en ef you'll be right peart, you'll ketch 'im.'.    From Wordnik.com.  [Nights With Uncle Remus Myths and Legends of the Old Plantation] Reference

"I be none too peart, but terrible wishful to get under the roof o 'my grandsons, thank' ee.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Explorers of the Dawn] Reference

She brought me around in great shape; and the second day afterward I was as peart as you please.    From Wordnik.com.  [Two on the Trail A Story of the Far Northwest] Reference