Word: pert
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...think that it was a good and useful institution. It might have been inconvenient, it might have been disagreeable, but the judgment of the student was certain to pronounce it salutary. Of course there must always have been some grumbling; there must have been in some quarters a pert condemnation of it; but such feelings must have been confined to the petulant and visionary. The average sense of the community pronounced without hesitation for public and obligatory prayer as a natural and becoming practice...
...pert way so true...
...takes her leave. She hasn't decided just yet where she s going or what she'll do, but she has been enjoying the best rooms in the house for some time, and thinks it but fair to move out and permit her sisters, staid '83, frivolous '84, and pert '85, to take up their quarters "first floor up, front." And then, to be sure, she wants to make room for the brightly varnished cradle of her baby sister, '86. Let us hope that '82 has been living so carefully, and has kept her trinkets in such good order that...
...last number of the Crimson was especially bright and entertaining. It is a great pity that the editors of that paper are not published, for they surely should receive the credit due them for giving their readers so many pert verses and pleasing short stories. The Crimson has our best wishes for the success it so richly deserves. - [Acta...