saucy

• “IV. iv.23 (III,6) [When saucy trusting of the cozen'd thoughts Defiles the pitchy night!] [W: When Fancy,] This conjecture is truly ingenious, but, I believe, the author of it will himself think it unnecessary, when he recollects that _saucy_ may very properly signify”

  Notes to Shakespeare — Volume 01: Comedies

• “Beatrice trots ahead of the pair of lovers, her long braid swinging in saucy rhythm with the horse's mane, as uninterested as her steed in their conversation.”

  Excerpt: Leonardo's Swans by Karen Essex

• “Is she being "saucy" -- to use one of her favorite words -- by design, perhaps to keep life on the campaign trail from becoming too onerous?”

  Newsweek: Kerry's Secret Sauce

• “Later on, when she was sent to an exclusive school in Boston, she made no friends and established what was to later be known as a saucy, independent and eccentric streak.”

  Erica Heller: "The Witch of Wall Street," a Cautionary Tale for Tough Times?

• “Should you frequent these pages regularly, you will recall saucy Ms. Downtown Lynn challenging The Giant Vermin to a 365 day vanity project featuring one of Blog Guelph's fave hounds - Miss Ryder.”

  Great Guelph Photos and Cool Blog Links by Creative Guelphites

• “Photographs show clear, frank eyes and an expression both saucy and penetrating.”

  Simon & Schuster: The Secret Life of Houdini

• “Foster looked at him earnestly, then turned away, and paced the room twice with the same steady and considerate pace with which he had entered it; then suddenly came back, and extended his hand to Michael Lambourne, saying, “Be not wroth with me, good Mike; I did but try whether thou hadst parted with aught of thine old and honourable frankness, which your enviers and backbiters called saucy impudence.””

  Kenilworth

• “COOPER: Did Bill O'Reilly, make what Andrea Mackris originally called saucy telephone calls to her?”

  CNN Transcript Oct 20, 2004

• “I get my face bruised, and am called a saucy Somebody as if I were nobody.”

  Botchan (Master Darling)

• “Molly had been once or twice called saucy and impertinent, and certainly a little sauciness came out now.”

  Wives and Daughters

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