half-pert

Updated: May 22, 2025

But Snap, running before me, interrupted her in the midst of some half-pert, half-playful repartee, by catching hold of her dress and vehemently tugging thereat; till Mr.

Anne Brontë - Agnes Grey

And that one lane in especial, the lane where Athenais puts her arm out of the side window of the rustic carriage and gathers May from the overarching hedge, that lane with its startled blackbirds, and humming insects, and limpid water, and swaying water-plants, and shelving gravel, and yellow wagtails hopping, half-pert, half-frightened, on the sand, that lane with its rushes, cresses, and mint below, its honeysuckle and traveller's-joy above, how gladly might one give all that strangely English picture in English, if the charm of Madame Sand's language did not here defy translation!

Matthew Arnold - Selections from the Prose Works of Matthew Arnold