"Perky" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... and as happy and perky as a cock pa'tridge," boomed Skipper Zeb. "We'll make the boats fast, ...
— Left on the Labrador - A Tale of Adventure Down North • Dillon Wallace
... was a holiday I welcomed when a boy, But now it is a solemn feast without a jot of joy. It used to be a pleasure to attack the toothsome turkey, But now when I approach the bird I'm anything but perky. ...
— The So-called Human Race • Bert Leston Taylor
... the 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
... keeping anything up your sleeve for Pendragon," said he, in his perky way, as if he were on an equality with the ex-Lieutenant-Governor of East Bengal. "He won't ask you to dance. He thinks you're a little girl, and is leaving you to little boys, like me, which is quite right. ...
— Set in Silver • Charles Norris Williamson and Alice Muriel Williamson
... patients were gorgeous in pink gowns. One old lady, who claimed to be a scion of royalty, had a resplendent mob-cap; but the belles of the ball-room were decidedly to be found among the female attendants, who were bright, fresh-looking young women, in a neat, black uniform, with perky little caps, and bunches of keys hanging at their side like the rosary of a soeur de charite, or the chatelaines with which young ladies love to adorn themselves at present. Files of patients kept streaming ...
— Mystic London: - or, Phases of occult life in the metropolis • Charles Maurice Davies
... were seated at the table an officer of the French Flying Corps and several of his men came in for something to eat, and we engaged in conversation. The French Officer, whose name is well known, and who was afterwards killed, was a small perky chap with black hair and eyes. His cheeks were hollow, as like most of the top-notch aviators he had had his teeth ...
— The Red Watch - With the First Canadian Division in Flanders • J. A. Currie
... wainscoted sitting-room, has suddenly turned into "an object," when lang syne goes by the board and the heirloom is incontinently set adrift. Undertake to move from this tumble-down old house, strewn thick with the debris of many generations, into a tumble-up, peaky, perky, plastery, shingly, stary new one, that is not half finished, and never will be, and good enough for it, and you will perhaps comprehend how it is that I find a great crack in my life. On the farther ...
— Atlantic Monthly, Vol. 10, No. 57, July, 1862 - A Magazine Of Literature, Art, And Politics • Various
... crowded in to vote on the Pump-handle question; sat in serried rows during the squabbles of question-time; and as soon as business was actually reached, House swiftly emptied, leaving about a score of Members. TIME more than ever distracted. Mr. P. increasingly perky. ...
— Punch Among the Planets • Various
... velvet is very pretty twisted over a wire and two perky loops and ends made. These are very pretty perched on the edge of a brim or among flowers on ...
— Make Your Own Hats • Gene Allen Martin
... windows of which looked upon the spray of the fountain—at which Ruth Pinch loved to gaze when its jet resembled a wagoner's whip. How all old and precious things pass away! The dear old 'wagoner's whip' has been replaced by a pert, perky squirt that will never stir the heart or ...
— A Book About Lawyers • John Cordy Jeaffreson |
