sauciness

We first hear of her acting in 1706; she took parts in which sauciness and coquetry were the chief features.

Come, then, and shake hands; we'll fine him for's sauciness, and his ransom shall be half a dozen at mine host Welcome's.

In the ultra-politeness, in the spice of sauciness gleaming out from her flashing eyes, the clergyman read incipient defiance.

All her wilfulness and sauciness flashed in her eyes as she lifted her glance at last to his and answered.

The p. 163midnight ride was entertaining in the extreme, for the girl was full of young life and sauciness and merry humour.

But Ashley's jolly laugh showed that he encouraged the maid in her "sauciness," and Fritz and Humphrey laughed in sympathy.

She admired the review, and the luncheon, and spoke of Charles without any sauciness, and Philip was condescending and agreeable.

And Mrs. Green, also an advocate of the notebook system as a memory jogger, applauded me for my sauciness to her wise husband.

It is really a work for two voices, most of the sauciness disappearing when taken as a solo.

Religion with them is not a termagant, revered for her sauciness and loved for her violent evolutions.