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jaunty
1. jaunty stride of the old man as he approached from the direction of
2. He still retained, however, his jaunty speech
3. The little man started, and his jaunty smoking-cap slid to the floor
4. He patted her round belly, and walked off with a jaunty step
5. Logging out on the shift-list and calling a jaunty goodbye to the Terminal Manager, he made his way over to the taxi-rank
6. Beth let loose the last line and waved a jaunty “all clear” to Truman up in the wheelhouse
7. He was dressed in a white tropical suit and wore his Panama hat cocked at a jaunty
8. Suzy put her big coat on and the big felt hat Lewis had got her, looking in the mirror she adjusts the hat to a jaunty angle; “How do I look?” she asks Sharon with a smile as she keeps staring into the mirror
9. large, jaunty birds moved in over the roof, grey, crested, long reptilian tails - this was
10. assist the acceleration sequence and with a jaunty twitch of her tail the Black
11. The Alien ship picked up a little speed and did a very jaunty turn to
12. shoulder and, with a jaunty step and whistling a happy tune, back to slay the dragon
13. is Camilla I think and he wears a jaunty peaked cap and vest
14. With a jaunty wave of good-bye to Falcon and Adrian, Gerry turned the van around in the hotel’s back parking lot, and headed towards the main road
15. Then with a jaunty wave to the rest of her family Joel climbed into the waiting limo, through the door which the chauffeur was holding open for him
16. With a jaunty wave, and a wink he left, and Kathy was immediately assailed by a new and even worse dilemma than roving reporters and her mobility on crutches - What was she going to do about transportation!?!
17. Soames, wondering who the jaunty gentleman could be, cautiously said he was
18. His cot up against the wall with a large poster of Mickey Mouse and friends riding in a jaunty car and laughing and gesticulating with their funny three fingered hands
19. I had to act carefree and jaunty as if everything was under control when absolutely nothing was
20. It fitted in with his expensive shoes, his cashmere overcoat, exquisitely tasteful tie and jaunty, matching cashmere hat
21. On an impulse, he got up, put on his coat and jaunty hat, picked up his cane, waved to the boys and outside on the street flagged down a taxi
22. He came about half an hour later smiling and jaunty
23. someone could be heard within dancing frantically, marking time with his heels to the sounds of the guitar and of a thin falsetto voice singing a jaunty air
24. Nothing, unless indeed the coarse buffoonery of Phillips, could be more out of place in an attempt to represent Cervantes, than a flippant, would-be facetious style, like that of Motteux's version for example, or the sprightly, jaunty air, French translators sometimes adopt
25. It is like a charge of being blind in one eye, a moral disablement, a sort of disgraceful calamity that must he carried off with a jaunty bearing--a sort of thing I am not capable of
26. Rather than be thought a mere jaunty cripple I allowed myself to be blinded by the gross obviousness of the usual arguments
27. But she wore her hat at a jaunty angle, there was a mocking intelligence in her eyes, and she looked at him with a mischievous grin that promised vague but tantalizing delights
28. The grandstands at the finish line slowly filled with people fanning themselves with their programs—men in fedoras and Panama hats, women in flat-brimmed hats perched on their heads at jaunty angles
29. This was the first good look at Europe any of them had ever had, and they were intrigued by simple details—the crumbling old buildings, Frenchwomen on bicycles carrying loaves of bread as long as their arms, boys in jaunty berets, men at work on the docks stopping periodically to drink some wine, in no apparent hurry to complete their tasks
30. She, too, had had a face with no lines, and she had walked with a jaunty stride
31. The son, on the other hand, had dropped all that jaunty, dashing style which had characterized him, and the ferocity of a dangerous wild beast gleamed in his dark eyes and distorted his handsome features
32. As danger thickened his jaunty manner would increase, his speech become more racy, his cold eyes glitter into ardent life, and his Don Quixote moustache bristle with joyous excitement
33. They marched in good order, jaunty for all their rags, their torn red odds and ends of rope and strips of rawhide
34. The door opened, a cold draft swept the room and Rhett appeared, and without a cravat but somehow jaunty despite his dishabille, and his dark eyes were snapping joyfully at the sight of her
35. Halfway through the book, Pat is seen on leave in New York City, at the funfair at Coney Island, with a cap on his head at a jaunty angle and reclining on the sand, still in his three-piece suit
36. ” It is one of his early recordings with the International Submarine Band and a curiously jaunty arrangement of such a sad song, but something in the lyrics went down deep inside, especially the verse that ran:
37. It was obvious at a glance that the original Weltlust had come back; that he had restored himself, as nearly as a man could do who had grown three or four years older, to the old jaunty, slapdash guise under which Tess had first known her admirer, and cousin so-called
38. “By special Permission o’ the Hangman,” he went on, “(which we paid dear fer, I’ll warrant ye), Martin an’ I were to dye together in the very same Cart, so after we had said our pretty Speeches, an’ been duly blest by the drunken Preacher, we climb’d into the Cart just as jaunty as ye please, kiss’d each other full upon the Lips before the whole Crowd—which, I’ll warrant ye, drove ’em wild—(fer ne’er had they seen two lovin’ Men, lovin’ in Publick before such a Crowd o’ scurvy Rogues no less!), an’ then the Executioner puts a Noose around each o’ our Necks, fastens the other End to that ill-favour’d Beam, an’ this done, he gives the Horse a Lash with his Whip, an’ away goes the Cart, and lo! we are hoisted up in the Air by our Ears!”
39. He wore a seersucker suit of the finest quality and a straw boater with a jaunty red band
40. Conklin’s reply was an occasional jaunty salute with his middle finger
41. A half second later, his hand poked back into view and gave us a jaunty wave, then vanished again
42. left!’ ‘Close up!’ came the company commander’s voice in jaunty tones
43. The jaunty infantry officer who just before the battle had rushed out of Tushin’s wattle shed was laid, with a bullet in his stomach, on ‘Matvevna’s’ carriage
44. Anatole followed him with his usual jaunty step but his face betrayed anxiety
45. He arose with a jaunty attempt at hauteur, and fell down the steps
46. Florian replied to hardship with a smiling face and a jaunty stride
47. ‘Tom?’ he said, affecting a jaunty air
48. I saw a man, not young, not old, but with a jaunty springy step
49. Near me as I write is a girl about eighteen years old in a fancy dress costume of bright colors, while in another seat near by is a women in a white dress trimmed with lace and covered with jaunty blue flowers
50. G—kof had a bold, jaunty air, walked with long strides, holding himself very straight; "a regular eagle," the convicts used to call him