espieglerie

• By Michael Weiss {Jazz Age espieglerie made live-action.} —  Snarksmith: new york. gossip. art. politics. pop culture. literature. etc.
• Even her ambiguities and espieglerie were but media of the same manifestation; acted charades, embodying the words of her prototype, the tender and susceptible daughter-in-law of Naomi: 'Let me find favour in thy sight, my lord; for that thou hast comforted me, and for that thou hast spoken friendly unto thine handmaid She was syringing the plants one wet day in the greenhouse. —  A Pair of Blue Eyes
• I am sure I remember that innocent look of _espieglerie_. ' —  The Chaplet of Pearls
• He had all the brightness of the Tuscan folk, a sort of innocent malice mixed with _espieglerie_. —  Sketches and Studies in Italy and Greece, Second Series
• High-heeled shoes, and a short silk cloak, thrown in easy negligence over her shoulders, completed the exterior of Miss Griselda Oldbuck Her niece, the same whom Lovel had seen transiently during his first visit, was a pretty young woman, genteelly dressed according to the fashion of the day, with an air of espieglerie which became her very well, and which was perhaps derived from the caustic humour peculiar to her uncle's family, though softened by transmission Mr. Lovel paid his respects to both ladies, and was answered by the elder with the prolonged courtesy of 1760, drawn from the righteous period When folks conceived a grace Of half an hour's space And rejoiced in a Friday's capon and by the younger with a modern reverence, which, like the festive benediction of a modern divine, was of much shorter duration While this salutation was exchanging, Sir Arthur, with his fair daughter hanging upon his arm, having dismissed his chariot, appeared at the garden door, and in all due form paid his respects to the ladies Sir Arthur," said the Antiquary, "and you, my fair foe, let me make known to you my young friend Mr. Lovel, a gentleman who, during the scarlet-fever which is epidemic at present in this our island, has the virtue and decency to appear in a coat of a civil complexion. —  The Antiquary — Complete

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