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While I sat listening I felt a tweak of my hair, and looking around I saw the Dunkelberg girl standing behind me with a saucy smile on her face. "Won't you come and play with me?" she asked. I took her out in the garden to show her where my watermelon had lain. At the moment I couldn't think of anything else to show her.
But the figure on the tongue never moved, even when the little girl, with a saucy swish of her skirts, paused daringly near it. So he sang out his last call: "Boshel of wheat, boshel of raye, Who ain't radey, holer 'Ay." "I," shouted the little girl, whisking triumphantly away, and the Swede boy began to count again. She entered the house, going in at the sitting-room.
"Of course a mother's love is a thing by itself, but your father and the little ones have every reason to be satisfied with yours." "The little ones are perhaps, and Helios who is blind, but Arsinoe does what she can." "You certainly are not content, I can hear it in your voice, and you used formerly to be as merry and happy as your sister, though perhaps not so saucy." "Formerly "
Lovealce, get this fury to London! Her fate, I can tell thee, Jack, if we had her among us, should not be so long deciding as her friend's. What a gantelope would she run, when I had done with her, among a dozen of her own pitiless sex, whom my charmer shall never see! But more of this anon. I find by this letter, that my saucy captive has been drawing the characters of every varlet of ye.
"He would brush my gowns and make my bed, and I might perchance trust him with my marketings, and by and by there might be some office for him when he grew saucy and idle. I'll prove him on mine old comrade's word." "Sir," said Ambrose, respectfully, "what I seek for is occasion for study. I had hoped you could speak to the Dean, Dr. John Colet, for some post at his school."
Headman, and you know it; you will just take what's coming to you, as others have done since the world was young." "Well, I give fair warning; it's 'hands off Jane, for lo, these many years, or some one will be brewing 'harm tea' for himself." "You bark so loud no one will believe you can bite," said this saucy, match-making mother.
"Bob will think you made these plum sweetmeats, Beulah," said Maud, with a saucy smile, as she placed a glass plate on the table "He never thinks I can make anything of this sort; and, as he is so fond of plums, he will be certain to taste them; then you will come in for the praise!" "You appear to think, that praise he must. Perhaps he may not fancy them good."
He pushed aside the branches so that Charlotte could easily follow him in, without being aware that his own forced passage through them had a little deranged the folds of spotless white cambric which a well-dressed gentleman wore round his neck in those days. Charlotte seated herself, and directed Percy's attention to the desolate conservatory with a saucy smile.
Her wit, which kept the House of Commons, during her examination, in a continued state of merriment, was piquant and saucy. Her answers on that occasion have been so often brought before the public, that I need not repeat them; but, in private life, her quick repartee, and her brilliant sallies, rendered her a lively, though not always an agreeable companion.
"Lost, a lank Yankee schoolmaster," quoth he, uplifting his voice after the manner of the town crier; "supposed to have been blown out of Doctor Grim's window, or perhaps have ridden off astride of a humble- bee." "It is not pretty to laugh in that way, Doctor Grim," said little Elsie, looking into his face, with a grave shake of her head. "And why not, you saucy little witch?" said the Doctor.
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