I pass over the nauseous epistle to Peter Pindar, and even notes to his Baviad and Moeviad, where though less vulgar in his language, he has a great deal of the pert cant and snip-snap which he deprecates.
Ehi, Carlina,' cried that pert youngster: 'What share do you expect for your small part?
A minute's ticking silence was ended by the stir and pert laugh of the challenged himself, as he left the ring of spectators and sauntered into the arena.
Upon which thepert jackanapes Nick Doubt tipped me the wink, and put out his tongue at his grandfather.
There arose an entire friendship by this sympathy betweenPert and Humphry, which ended in stripping the latter.
In fact, Sadie timidly suggested to Pert one day that Arthur was always distrait and silent after seeing her and Checkers together; and that instead of making him desire a domestic little home of his own, it seemed to embitter and sour him.
Meanwhile Mr. Barlow had taken occasion to lecture Pert on her sinful extravagance.
Saturday night a note from Pert arrived, inviting them both to dinner on the following day; a return of courtesies which they accepted with pleasure.
When Pert was a child they gave her the nick-name, and it's stuck to her ever since.
The banjo was one of Arthur's many gifts to Pert in days gone by, and Checkers to his great relief found it a very excellent instrument.
After that he picked up a precarious living, selling whatever articles of value he possessed, one after another, until he had left but the diamond star he had given Pert as a wedding gift, and a scanty wardrobe.
Checkers and Pert returned and soon fell into their accustomed grooves.
He had found Pert looking a little pale, and her bright eyes seemed somewhat larger and brighter.
Christmas and the holidays followed hard upon the wedding, and New Year's Day being Sunday, Pert invited the members of the wedding party to the house for from Friday to the Monday following.
Every ornament, every chair, was standing just asPert had left it.
Checkers called and explained the case to the doctor, and the next day Pert underwent a thorough examination.
Left alone, Pert tried to compose her mind and go to sleep; but in spite of herself her brain dwelt anxiously upon Checkers in Little Rock, and upon what her father had said to her.
And in fact he had not been at the Holt since, as a pert boy, he had found it 'slow.
Don't let Dustiefoot hear it; and be sure you do not tell it to the pert Fairacre birds, who do nothing but chatter from morning to night.
Thank you, dear,' said Laurette, with a pert little bow.
With your pert tongue you would try the patience of a Job.
A pert young woman in a hat and feathers, and travelling alone, then began: "La, me!
His lordship liked the brew exceedingly--" A shriek from the pert young woman interrupted this.
I think it was rather a bitter pill for some of them to swallow that a pert little boy of ten should be admitted, as a grown-up person, to all the hard-won privileges of their order.
We believe it was to Christmas Evans a pert young preacher said, “Well, you have given us an old sermon again to-day.
Or euer but in vizards shew their faces: This pert Berowne was out of count'nance quite Rosa.
There stood the pert haberdasher, with his box of silver-fringed gloves, and lace which Diana might have worn.
And if she dared her lips to pout— Like many pert young misses— I’d wind my arm her waist about, And punish her—with kisses!
Dora pouted and bit her lip, but she did not dare to make anypert reply, and only showed her displeasure by the sulky way in which she answered her aunt's further questions.
I could not endure William Coxe--a pertyoung lawyer.
But no, he spoke out as pert and cheerful as anything and sez he: "Samantha, I don't think it is necessary for Christians to give such a awful sight.
Gimcrack, gaudy villas, and pasteboard houses, show their pert and paltry forms amidst noble palaces, or beside patrician towers.
She pressed her lips together and sat in offended dignity, while Jill skipped to the door, tossing her pretty pert head.
Jill's pert little face was left fully exposed by the cloth cap which was perched at the top of her curly locks; her expression was divided between triumph and consternation.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "pert" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
