minxish

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She had brought them out of the stye to have a better sight of their pretty twitching noses and their silken bristles and their playfulness, which was unclouded, as it is in the puppy by a genuine fear of life, or in the kitten by a minxish affectation of the same; and Goodtart, the cattleman, had drawn near with a "Wunnerful, ain't they, Miss Marion?

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  • (£745, matchesfashion. com; Dune stocks a £99 tribute, 020 7258 3605) and minxish peep-toe heel —  Telegraph.co.uk: news business sport the Daily Telegraph newspaper Sunday Telegraph
  • She had brought them out of the stye to have a better sight of their pretty twitching noses and their silken bristles and their playfulness, which was unclouded, as it is in the puppy by a genuine fear of life, or in the kitten by a minxish affectation of the same; and Goodtart, the cattleman, had drawn near with a "Wunnerful, ain't they, Miss Marion? —  The Judge
 

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