I quite hate her, with all her pretty face and her mincing ways.
He mimicked what he thought to be hermincing accents.
Then Robert told her the story, notmincing his words.
Sir John, mincingout his pun as though he loved it.
Mrs. Leyburn in her little mincing voice, making room for his chair beside them.
I expected to see a young dandy, but I saw a man of between forty and fifty, with a light wig, come forward with a mincing step, bowing to right and to left and smiling almost agreeably.
When she is won, it will be by some bold and gallant gentleman, and by no mincing squire of dames, no courtly coxcomb, no fop of the Luxembourg, be his experiences of dalliance never so vast.
I echoed peevishly, mincing my words as I uttered them.
I'd like to have my kitchen to myself, please," she said in a mincing way, irritating to a last degree.
You'll live where I TELL you," the dentist suddenly cried, exasperated at the mincing tone she affected.
Not deigning on the boy a glance to cast Swept careless by the gorgeous Queen of Gain; More scornful still, the Queen of Fashion passed, With mincing gait and sneer of cold disdain.
The Flower-fairies spread each wing, And trip about with mincing ging, Upon the magic lawn.
I think it is better than waiting till I got rich in Mincing Lane, sir," he replied, his eyes sparkling.
Well, sir, is not a race-horse a poormincing thing until her blood gets up galloping?
Her speech had an accent which in its mincing glibness seemed to rebuke mine as by authority; her spruce attire flaunted an easy scorn to my plain country garb.
These worthies gave voice without mincing the matter their hearty exertions had at least this good result--the ear drank thence a satisfying sense of power.
And so Sister Cecilia left Dora--mincing away into the gloom of the overhanging trees.
It was Sister Cecilia, walking with thatmincing lightness of tread which seems to be the outward and visible sign of an inward and spiritual superiority over the remainder of womanhood.
When she had gone mincing out again, I turned so impatiently to put the counter to rights, that Arnold softly chuckled.
She's an artful one, she is, with all her demure looks andmincing ways.
Throughout that dull luncheon my tongue went mincing on and on--in sheer desperation lest any one should detect the state of mind I was in.
Who wheedled her way on with her mincing humbug--poof!
And so it followed that, as she fed the mincing pea-fowl, Madame de Vallorbes' smile changed in character from reflection to impatience.
If your foolish principles were made the test, there would hardly be a free man in Mincing Lane.
Miss Deane got up, and holding herself very erect, moved with a little mincing step towards the tall mirror over the console table.
That spindling escritoire, for instance, and that mincing Louis Quinze settee, ought to be taking their well-earned leisure in some museum.
They turned their shoulders to her most savage slashes, and with wagging tails and mincing steps strove to placate her wrath.
He slowed down to an alert and mincing walk and then stopped.
These plumes waved gracefully in the air with every mincing step the Princesses took.
The girls approached in a line along the garden path, all walking with mincingsteps and holding their chins high.
He stopped at the great oaken table and raised his hat with a sort of mincing delicacy.
