In the first place, Furneaux was not the cheery colleague whose perky chatterings were his most deadly weapons when lulling a rogue into fancied security.
I thought to myself at the time what a queer, perky person he was, and what working eyes the little man had, and I wondered who he could be.
But, as I told you a while back, he sulked on me two or three times and gave me the wrong steer when he was young and perky and hot over something or other, and I got hurt on these occasions, for a fact.
Dope makes a horse about as perky as three drinks of whisky makes a man who's been off the booze for a long while.
And he's just perky and sassy because he thinks I'm on to his first exhibited system of bluffing.
The little brown bird strutted with an important air to where it had a better view of Dot and her companion, and eyed them both in the same perky manner.
Dot did not care for any other creature in the Bush just then but her Kangaroo, and the perky air of the bird annoyed her in her sorrow.
The perkylittle father, with his tail cocked up, stands near.
The parrots come from South America, New Zealand, and Australia; so they like hot countries, but they seem to do very well in England, and look quite perky and happy.
Dear Anna, thank Heaven I am exceptional in having nothing to confide," she retorted with a sort of perky significance.
You look very perky this morning, honey," said Douglas, as she packed a basket of turnovers and cheese cakes with great care not to crush those wonders of culinary art.
You look tolerable perky yourself," retorted her sister.
Her little fists were clinched and even her perky plaid hair ribbon seemed to show amazement.
The perky little launch shoved up close to the side of the tall steamer.
The Staten Island ferries drummed back and forth, the perky little ferryboat to Ellis Island and the tugboat to the Statue of Liberty crossed their path.
Never heard tell of sech gals as you are, travelin' about alone--jest as perky as young pa'tridges!
At other times they would be buoyed up to a pitch ofperky inanity most provoking.
The gorse showed dots of yellow amongst its prickles, and little brilliant blue squills stuck up their perky faces and gave out a sweet scent.
Miles turned his back to Perky and sat on the couch inside where he was sure he could speak in privacy.
Miles curled his lips in disgust as Perky looked in from her balcony vantage.
Over the last four years Perky and Miles had seen each other on a periodically regular basis.
He saw Perky open her eyes and look at him quizzically.
The impress of the Royal Arms at the head of the paper, with its grotesque perky lion and unicorn, conveyed to Doggie a sense of the grip of some uncanny power.
When we settled down and got started, I discovered that I was the only representative of my sex, and that I was sandwiched between a perky youth in his teens and a Chinaman, while a black fellow and a man with a red beard sat opposite.
In the perkyyouth I discovered a professional jockey; and when he found that I was a daughter of Dick Melvyn, the one-time great horse-breeder, he became very friendly.
It was the largest of the three, much longer and wider than the first and was tied with a big perky bow which Nan proceeded to untie, oh, so slowly, it seemed to her friends, for in her confusion her fingers fumbled over the knot.
You're a spirit of something or other--probably of one of those perky mountains over yonder.
This is the sort of job that would try the nerves of some of you foot sloggers," said a perky little officer, as the lieutenant approached.
And as Dennis flung his leg over the edge of the basket the perky youngster gave the order to let her go.
Them big china blue eyes of hers is steady and calm, her perkychin is carried well up, and in one corner of her mouth she's displayin' that quirky smile he'd described to me.
Why, she just tosses up that perky chin of hers and turns loose the catchy melody until you felt the warm waves splashin' and saw the moonlight dancin' across the bay!
Miss Hampton, restin' herperky chin on one knuckle and studyin' the rug pattern.
And Blair Hiscock, in his John Drew regalia, looks even thinner and whiter than ever; but he struts around as perky and important as if he was Big Bill Edwards.
To tell the truth, this insignificant but perky little bit of humanity was a stowaway, who had determined, at twelve years of age, to see the world, at the expense of somebody else.
I am hoping that," said I, and looked at Ronny's mother sitting very bright and perky by the fire, with a clean white mutch on her head and the strings not tied.
Its old dignity even covered the perky gilt inscription over the doorway, telling how James Blake was licensed to sell a variety of alcoholic beverages.
