Old Dibs perkedup at this and cottoned to the idea tremendous; and the graveyard soon become his regular stamping ground, except when there was a funeral.
But Old Dibs took it more cheerful, and minded a good deal less about its being wasted; and as the months run on, he seemed to think he was out of the woods, and perked up wonderful.
So he perked up a little, and offered Neewa a congratulatory yip that was half a whine.
As he watched his master this half of an ear stood up like a galvanized stub, while the other--twice as long--was perked forward in the deepest and most interested enquiry.
Five miles slipped behind them easily--so easily that their horses perked ears and tugged hard against the bits.
The victims scented fun in the thing and perked up, and the schoolma'am breathed relief, for she knew the crowd.
He read the label on a tin of "dope," unwrapped a coil of wire cable and felt it, went at a parcel of unbleached linen, found the end and held a corner up to the light and squinted at it with his head perked sidewise.
Wherefore her horse Tango laboriously carried Mary V up the ridge and kept his ears perked for the warning buzz of rattlers, and his eyes open for a feasible line retreat in case he heard one.
Rattler perked his ears forward toward the strident buzzing which once heard is never forgotten, and which is never heard without a tensing of nerves.
His ears perked forward, his eyes rolling watchfully for strange sights and sounds, he stepped softly forward, ready to wheel at the slightest alarm and gallop back up the gorge to more familiar ground.
His eyebrows were perked discontentedly, and his forefinger was in the doomed bow she had tied not fifteen minutes before.
The girl perked her head affectedly as she passed the wholesale glove and hosiery stores, at each door of which bareheaded assistants, with their pens stuck in their ears, stood watching her with a weary gaze.
Pauline perked herself up, and replied that it was her own, whereupon Muche gently led her to the corner of the Rue Pirouette, touching her skirts the while and expressing his astonishment at their wonderful stiffness.
Smoky, Sunfish and Stopper walked briskly, ears perked forward, heads up, eyes eager to catch the familiar landmarks that meant home.
Two jumps and Stopper had stopped, faced the horse and stood braced again, his ears perked knowingly while he waited for the flop.
Ashton perked up his ears at the promise of a tunnel and kept his eye on his watch.
But the self-created taxi-gale swept his voice aft, and the taut chauffeur perked his ear in vain to catch the vanishing syllables.
Yes, you did," yapped Dig, who now that he was to finger his winnings had perked up wonderfully.
I heard Ainger tell Violet he thought we'd pull it off, so I perked up.
Veve perked up, thinking that the troop leader needed her help.
Constable Nute, who had been looking puzzled ever since the selectman had signed the call for the meeting, perked up with the interest of one who is about to hear a mystery explained.
He had perked up enough to bewail the fact that all he had was canned spinach instead of turnip greens.
We celebrated, and even Bullard seemed to have perked up.
Diego grinned, checked himself on the verge of venturing another comment, and tilted his head sidewise instead, his ears perked toward the medley of fiesta sounds outside.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "perked" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
