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"Is all our company here?" said a pert-looking, little pug-nosed man, who had taken upon himself the part of Quince the carpenter, in the Midsummer Night's Dream. "You, Nick Bottom," continued he, addressing another, "are set down for Pyramus." The party addressed did not, however, appear to enter into the humour.
Evariste, call Justine." The pert-looking chambermaid appeared, and her mistress told her where she would find the key of the famous cellar.
Hetty waited for a moment, then went on "And I thought you had given him the licence: that is what made me so anxious to find " A noise in the passage cut short her excuses: a woman's laugh. Hetty knew of two women only in the house the landlady who had opened the door last night and a pert-looking slatternly servant she had passed at the foot of the stairs on her way to the cathedral.
The planes grow at the back of Guy's Hospital, and close by is a short narrow street which bears the name of Maze Pond. It consists for the most part of homely, flat-fronted dwellings, where lodgings are let to medical students. At one of these houses Harvey Munden plied the knocker. He was answered by a trim, rather pert-looking girl, who smiled familiarly. 'Mr.
By and by a pert-looking, bright-feathered, dapper cock chaffinch dropped down from the bush, and, advancing to one of the two, the rustiest and most forlorn-looking, started running round and round him as if to make a close inspection of his figure, then began to tease him.
There's something annoying in their cursed complacency their evident sunshiny happiness. I've no woman to make sunshine for ME; and yet my heart tells me that not one, but several such suns, would do good to my system. "Who are those pert-looking officers," says I, peevishly, to the guide, "who are talking to those vulgar-looking women?"
On each side of the body of the church there are four neat-looking three-light windows; at the western end there is a beautiful five-light window, but its effect is completely spoiled by a small, pert-looking, precocious organ, which stands right before it. At each end of the transept there are circular lights of condensed though pleasant proportions.
A pert-looking maid answered Jordan's ring, and stared at him when he asked for Miss Burnett. "I don't think you can see her," she said shortly, scanning his country cut of hair and clothes rather superciliously. "What is your business with her?" The maid's scorn roused Jordan's "dander," as he would have expressed it. "I'll tell her that when I see her," he retorted coolly.
I'm sure I don't feel in the least confused. I'm glad I'm not as ridiculously dressed as that pert-looking girl in brown. I should call it in very bad taste to wear such a rich silk as that for traveling.
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