"Saucily" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... dark fur of the hood heightening by contrast the fairness of her lovely flushed face, so that it looked like the face of one of Correggio's angels framed in ebony and velvet. She laughed, and her eyes flashed saucily. ...
— Vendetta - A Story of One Forgotten • Marie Corelli
... James," Mrs. Grantham said saucily; "but you must remember that Tom Virtue will only be first mate ...
— Among Malay Pirates - And Other Tales Of Adventure And Peril • G. A. Henty
... "Are you?" said Flora saucily. "I'm glad to hear that, because I mean to keep you in a dying state. I will tell the story as a dead secret to Lucy, when I take her to see my poor people, and you sha'n't hear ...
— Freaks on the Fells - Three Months' Rustication • R.M. Ballantyne
... modern point of view, in grace and seemliness. But the standard of propriety in such matters varies from age to age. Shakespeare alludes quite complacently to the appearance of boys and men in women's parts. He makes Rosalind say, laughingly and saucily, to the men of the audience in the epilogue to As You Like It: "If I were a woman I would kiss as many of you as had beards that pleased me." "If I were a woman," she says. The jest lies in the fact that the speaker was not a woman but a boy. Similarly, ...
— Shakespeare and the Modern Stage - with Other Essays • Sir Sidney Lee
... saucily Miss Kite, indicating with her fan the vacant seat beside her. "Tell me about yourself. You interest me." Miss Kite adopted a pretty authoritative air towards all youthful-looking members of the opposite sex. It harmonised with the peach complexion and the golden hair, ...
— Passing of the Third Floor Back • Jerome K. Jerome
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