Whether man, woman, monkey, or goblin, I never saw a more impish figure, and it squatted there looking down from under its hood.
It was all very ugly and repulsive, and the music was impish and quite in keeping.
She made a grimace that turned into an impish smile.
She surveyed him with an impish expression--much as a grasshopper might survey a toad.
But that impish way of yours gave me quite a start!
His deep-set eyes, his flat nose, his mouth set in a thousand fine wrinkles, the whole aspect of him, breathed a sly and impish drollery.
It would suit his sardonic humor, his impish malice, to hide them where the Hyndses must pass them daily; and, himself a slave, to hide them behind the pictured semblance of Washington.
Margutte takes an impish pride in reckoning up his villanies and vices.
The impish children on the refuse heaps shouted gleefully.
A solemn lady, but with so bandaged eyes that she cannot see the impish capers of her scales.
Now Sterne is the most impish of all imaginative writers.
Is that shocking impish urchin whom we used to call Riquet with the tuft, older than he?
She soothed the man's wrath, and healed his wound as best she might, ere returning to her patient, who looked at her with an impish grin on his lips, and yet human deprecation in his eyes.
He approved of Parpon, and never lost a chance of sharpening his humour on the dwarf's impish whetstone of a tongue.
The old man set their blood tingling with the impish sticks.
In that faint green light they looked weird, impish figures.
My impish captors bent hard at their paddles, exchanging muttered words, until soon the roaring of the torrent sounded indistinct, and we found ourselves out upon a great subterranean lake of limitless extent.
Sieur Hugh is afraid because he likes me to dance," she told her mother, with an impish little grin of enjoyment.
She glanced at him with impish amusement as she moved towards the door.
The creature in the chair checked his furious wheels, and looked back over his shoulder with an impish curiosity horrible to see.
Miserrimus Dexter dropped his embroidery on his lap, and laughed softly to himself, with an impish enjoyment of my poor little narrative, which set every nerve in me on edge as I looked at him.
He is contented to expose the ears representative of your party on the pillory, and is in a way of doing you more service than a worn-out witness, who can hang nobody hereafter but himself.
Mendacity was not outside of Miss Forbes's easy code when enlisted in a good cause, such as appeasing her own impish curiosity.
She raised to his, eyes that danced with an impish and perverse light.
The impishreadiness of the boy amused the duke, though his words stung.
When he smiled these teeth gave him animpish expression.
Leaning over the rail, Anthony puckered his lips around the impish gap in his own handsome teeth and repeated the tune with an echo's mockery.
The eyes of the crow, impish and malevolent, were fixed, not upon him, but upon a small shrew close at his side.
The eyes themselves were extraordinarily large, dark, and lustrous, and glowed with a startling, almost impish intelligence.
Beatrix's eyes gleamed with fun and a sort of impish amusement.
A suddenimpish and daring idea took possession of her.
Artificiality, self-consciousness and that touch of the precocious that she took an impishpleasure in adopting in a crowd, all left her.
The girl's brain was suddenly filled with an impish desire to flick her host's apparent imperturbability with the whip of sarcasm.
With almost impish glee, Beatrix told herself that she had won the first round.
She made an attractive, if somewhat erotic, picture sitting there, so slight and so feminine in her white satin dress cut with impish ability to the very limit of decency.
Mrs. Larpent gave every indication of the fact that she felt that some justification for her presence was required, and behind Beatrix's impish laugh there was a high-spirited story waiting to be told.
He caught the impish look which Beatrix darted at him and gave it up.
He felt an impish desire to prevent her from getting her own way.
Twilight-dusk-night came upon Parpon and his dead--the woman whom an impish fate had put into his heart with mockery and futile pain.
