"Perky" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... pray, and, as they gained confidence in themselves, they were asked to lead the meetings. Thus there grew, in that church, one after the other, within a few years, eight preachers: A. B. Green, Wm. Moody, Holland Brown, Leonard Brown, Philander Green, B. F. Perky, Pardee ...
— Personal Recollections of Pardee Butler • Pardee Butler
... as they drove away, "that 'Rion must have eat sour pickles for breakfast to-day and nothing much else. Yet he seemed perky enough last night at the sociable. I wonder ...
— Sheila of Big Wreck Cove - A Story of Cape Cod • James A. Cooper
... duckling was perky as perky. "Take care of your stuffing!" he called. (This was horribly rude to a turkey!) "But you aren't a ...
— It Can Be Done - Poems of Inspiration • Joseph Morris
... kiss his mother, tweaked Sister's perky bow of hair-ribbon, and with a hasty "Good-bye" for the others at the table, hurried out into the hall. They heard the front door ...
— Brother and Sister • Josephine Lawrence
... Yates's old colonial mansion was the perky modern Queen Anne residence of Mrs. Joseph Glynn. Mrs. Glynn had a daughter, Ethel, and an unmarried sister, Miss Julia Esterbrook. All three were fond of talking, and had many callers who liked to hear the feebly effervescent news of Wellwood. This ...
— The Yates Pride • Mary E. Wilkins Freeman
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