pert

• “The worst pert is that his colleagues, friends and even his family have no idea who he is.”

  Superhero Nation: how to write superhero novels and comic books » Which Origin Stories are Plausible?

• ““I guess we called her pert,” she said, with a smile moving her thick features.”

  Simon & Schuster: Dicey's Song

• “Porter -- who Time described as a pert, brown-eyed, dark haired, nail-biting, chain-smoking, go-getter -- helped enfranchise American women to the investment world, teaching them core concepts and strategies so they need not ask for a man's help to take the reins of what Porter termed "pocketbook issues.”

  The Huffington Post: Pamela Yellen: When "Women and Financial Literacy" Was Still an Oxymoron, Sylvia Porter Came to the Rescue

• “In its notice of the play in August 1823, the Mirror of the Stage; or, New Dramatic Censor found Mrs. Weippert (whose initial it gives as "I.") of particular interest: "as a singer, this lady's merits are not above mediocrity; but whenever she is put into characters suited to her talents, such as pert servants, or romping hoyden's [sic], she displays considerable vivacity and spirit.”

  Cast and Characters

• “Spark has never been an abundant imaginer; her deliberate deprivations and omissions have always represented a kind of pert challenge to the reader, as if she were saying, "This is all I will give you; make of these rations what you can.”

  The Prime of Ms. Muriel Spark

• “They would become "pert," as pages were supposed to be, and diffident as esquires, but as knights they would come back of themselves to the perfect ways of their childhood with a grace that became well the strength and self-possession of their knighthood.”

  The Education of Catholic Girls

• “We'll need somebody to heave a bucket of water on Issy pretty soon; he's gettin 'kind of pert and uppish again.”

  The Portygee

• “The youth of Disraeli was "pert" beyond all record, and those who cannot endure to be teased should not turn to his early romances, or, indeed, to any of his writings.”

  Some Diversions of a Man of Letters

• “Barry's Moobs are if not Buxom definitely "pert" …. sven10077 on May 7, 2009 at 9: 31 PM and his pecks glisten in the sun … … … … ….”

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• “Barry's Moobs are if not Buxom definitely "pert" ….”

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