Towering majestically among his fellows stood Mung Baw, who, throwing them a hasty explanation, advanced to welcome Shafto with a soldierly tread and a jaunty swing of his yellow robe.
Her mate warned her, but she paid no particular attention to him, and with jaunty twists and turns hopped about on the dead limbs, giving hurried jabs at the cobwebs she was gathering.
It was interesting to see how the jaunty indifferent gnats would act when settling down to plain matters of business.
I had hardly seated myself when the jaunty little gnatcatcher came flying over and lit in an upper branch of the tree.
The jaunty little craft was moving through the water slowly, enveloped in flames from bow to stern, and the boys gazed at her with a feeling of sadness which did not arise solely from the fact of their present peril.
Neal signaled from the pier, two of the crew came ashore in the captain's boat, and the boys went on board where, during the remainder of the day, they were busy examining and admiring the jaunty little craft.
She had on a white sailor hat with scarlet cherries on it, fruit being the rage in millinery this season, a jaunty type which didn't at all suit her.
Anatole followed him with his usual jaunty step but his face betrayed anxiety.
The room was quieter now, for Edward had got the dragon down and was boring holes in him with a purring sound Harold was ascending the steps of the Athenaeum with a jaunty air--suggestive rather of the Junior Carlton.
When Edward was observed to be swaggering round with a jaunty air and his chest stuck out, I knew that he was contemplating his future from the one point of view.
It was the "tigerism" of a past period, and which he could no more abandon than he could give up the jaunty swagger of his walk, or the bland smile which he kept ready for recognition.
When his face appeared at the window, his hat and the long black cigar were pushed up to angles parallel, jaunty and perilous.
We must glance for one instant at the capstan, which was just behind where the jaunty young cadet was standing.
They are a swarthy, wild-looking crowd, wearing long hair parted in the middle, or not parted at all; to their national costume are added the jaunty trappings affected by river men in all countries.
The jauntybonnet carried him in an elegant reticule, in close proximity to a coquettish hankerchief, redolent of perfume.
A paste pin in a faded cravat, and a jaunty cane with a pinchbeck top, betrayed that he was still somewhat of a beau.
Overhead, a ribald fellow of a Blackbird whistled a jaunty tune.
With a little jauntyflourish of the hand, he dusted the stray grains of snuff off his finger and thumb, and looked back again at the lawn-party, and became more absorbed in the diversions of his young friends than ever.
He smiled to himself as he fingered the forbidden objects that nestled so innocently in his pocket and gave him such a jaunty grown-up feeling.
He buttoned it up, drew a jaunty crush cap from one of its pockets, and grinned pleasantly into the face of the petrified Peter Pope.
Then, striking a jaunty dancing step, he started to cross the clearing, whistling a jolly tune.
This," explained Mary Antony, "was how I had planned to point a moral to that jaunty little worldling.
He carried the silver-headed malacca cane, and had retained his narrow-brimmed howler at its customary jaunty angle.
But Eden still exists whenever two young lovers set up housekeeping, even in prosaic New York; only our modern Eves wear jaunty little morning caps and fascinating wrappers and slippers, with coquettish butterfly bows.
The street cars were full of happy people rollicking off to work: policemen directed the traffic with jaunty affability: and the white-clad street-cleaners went about their poetic tasks with a quiet but none the less noticeable relish.
A right valiant and jaunty Chevalier is our hero; going about with his long Toledo perpetually drawn.
It was not difficult for Dan to get a short leave of absence, and the two went directly to the creek where their acquaintance, who proposed to make himself the central figure of the fair, was rowing around in a jaunty looking craft.
Looking up quickly he saw Sam, self-possessed and jaunty as at the first moment he met him in Waterville, but wearing an air of considerably more importance.
He had used his greasy hand, and his smooth hair stuck up in front in three jaunty wisps.
She hugged up to her bosom a jaunty jockey, who had lost an eye and a nose.
The answers to such questions were all too obvious; and yet it is easy to imagine, also, what might have been Palmerston's jaunty comment.
With a jaunty lilt of skipping strings the lower reeds strike the capricious tune, where the full chorus soon falls in.
Merely jaunty and clownish it would be but for the mischievous scream (of high flute) at the end.
The Finale begins in the buoyant spirit of the beginning and seems again to have a touch of Scotch in the jaunty answer.
