"Saucily" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... work easy, except epigram-writing, which he thought "excessively stupid and laborious," but helped himself out, when scholarship failed, with native wit. Some of his exercises remain, not very brilliant Latinity; some he saucily evaded, thus: ...
— The Life of John Ruskin • W. G. Collingwood
... saucily; "it's all over, Jan. I knew mamma would spoil him as soon as he came. Go and have your face washed, Nic; you're not ...
— First in the Field - A Story of New South Wales • George Manville Fenn
... which gave his round plump face a sly and comic expression. His little yellow eyes moved restlessly about, his thin lips wore a continual forced smile, while his sharp, long nose peered forward saucily in front like a rudder. 'I'm coming, my dear fellow.' He went hobbling towards the tavern. 'What are you calling me ...
— A Sportsman's Sketches - Volume II • Ivan Turgenev
... in hand towards the buildings, strolled up saucily towards two of the parked cars, made the sort of wave that lovers give one another in goodbye when they don't really want to demonstrate their affection before ten thousand people and stepped into two cars and ...
— Highways in Hiding • George Oliver Smith
... if he did," the girl said saucily, as she held up her face. "Goodbye, senor. I shall always think of you, and pray the Virgin to ...
— Under Wellington's Command - A Tale of the Peninsular War • G. A. Henty
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