I drew some nourishment out of my restored arteries into my brain cells and yelled, "Siddy, I know I'm a tricksy trull and the High Vixen of all Foxes, but what the Hell is Peterhouse?
As soon as I got the Maintainer unsnarled and looked around and saw your sweet old face--" "Back, tricksy trull!
The tricksy sprite did erst assist At hushed Verona's moonlight tryst; Sweet Capulet!
Illustration: "The beaver fair was enlivened by music and tricksy gambols.
Still the beaver fair was enlivened by music and tricksy gambols.
When the tricksy girls were all absent, when men alone stood guard over and were with this prisoner, she became invisible by them.
Wherefore, then, if thou dost love me, So to words of anger move me, Corking of this face of mine, Tricksy cousin Caroline?
Yes, it was your tricksy self, Wicked-tricked little elf, Naughty cousin Caroline!
Sally's eyes were admirable windows of exactly the right size and color for an earnest, tender spirit to look out of, but just now there was nobody at the casement but a slippery elf peering out in tricksy defiance.
The capricious elf, the tricksy sprite, was melting away in the immortal soul, and the deep pathetic power of a noble heart was being born.
From a hundred throats came the cries, "Tricksy wins!
As oft she veils herself in haze, A cloak before her splendour set; She is a silly charming pet, We needs must give her love and praise, The moon with all her tricksy ways.
The moon, with all her tricksy ways, Is like a careless young coquette, Who smiles, and then her eyes are wet, And flies or follows or delays.
The moon with all hertricksy ways, Is like a careless young coquette.
Enough if secrecy you swear: Red lips can't solve the subtile snare My tricksy muse weaves with her line: And I am caught, vain Valentine!
Bellamira in Sir Charles Sedley's play, and Mrs Tricksy in the following pages, are admitted into company with the modest female characters, without the least hint of exception or impropriety.
Mrs Tricksy has left her Indian gown upon the bed; clap it on, and turn your back: he will easily mistake you for her, if he should look in upon you.
But the tricksy god of irony has decreed that, if he lasts long enough, every anarch will end as a conservative, upon which consoling epigram let us pause.
Art is a tricksy quantity and like quicksilver is ever mobile.
Once, when she suddenly touched the brands, she fancied she saw the tricksy little thing tumbling about in the sparks; another time she missed catching it in a rose.
He sees that the tricksy little elf makes the fortune of the house.
We sat and watched a little boat, Her name the 'Tricksy Jane,' A queer old tub laid up ashore, But we could see her plain.
As his mind swam along with the gliding, tricksy phantom of a tune, it seemed as if he too could see these visions--as if he gazed at them through her eyes.
His mind was full of tricksy devices for eluding this task of serious thought which he sought to impose upon it.
She had a deserved reputation as a tomboy, but she carried off her tricksy whims with a daintiness that preserved them from all hint of coarseness; and if sometimes she was rude, she had a way of righting herself that none could resist.
I'll warrant thou wilt, though it takes a nimble wit to match the tricksy mother-birds.
Yes, it was your tricksy self, Wicked-tricked little elf, Naughty Caroline!
A tricksy character is ascribed to Loki in some of the Norse stories (Saussaye, Religion of the Teutons, p.
Morally they represent both the higher and the lower sides of life, and this is true in all periods--the Hindu Indra is as tricksy and unmoral as the North American Coyote, and the early form of Zeus resembles these and other savage figures.
And though they hide Sometimes from human ken their better selves, Still loved, remain these tricksy elves.
