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Usage examples of racy.

For fresh, racy and correct style, for clear perception and exquisite literary taste, it is one of the best books on the subject, as it one of the best books on any subject ever written by an American.

But the most interesting and racy character among our old Judges was Theron Metcalf.

A picture showed a long racy hull that scintillated against a background of stars.

From the clean, strong lines of his face down to the tips of his polished shoes, he exuded a racy, provocative aura.

Valparaiso to join a brother who died, than with her fresh and racy descriptions of four young Australian colonies.

Perhaps they had heard rumors about her racy past, or perhaps they just found her approachable.

Now she was content to remain almost silent while Adam talked--he was an amusing talker and she listened with pleasure to his racy comments about people he knew, but it was over too soon.

Morris 1000, a car which, while hardly noted for its breathtaking speed and racy lines, maintained a steady forty miles an hour and seldom gave her any trouble.

At the other end of the trail a mountain ash spread concealing arms over a narrow, racy cylinder of highly polished metal.

But she seemed to respect its privacy, so it became like a treehouse, a repository for all manner of boy debris: fossilized cowpies, rodent skulls, comic books, homemade weapons, rusted horseshoes, and probably, long after my last ascent, racy magazines.

That most charming mixture of dignified self respect, with unfailing gracious courtesy to others, those manners in which frankness and refinement mingled with and set off each other, that perfect purity of thought and utterance, and yet that thorough enjoyment of all that was good and racy in wit or humour - this has passed away with him.

Cut it in twain, and the product is enormous, far transcending any previous developments of our racy Territory.

Olivia waved her hairbrush at her twin to emphasize her point, as Victoria laughed, looking terribly racy as she sat with her long legs crossed on the edge of their huge tub, in one of the dresses Olivia had just bought them.

But the brightest, raciest, wittiest, liveliest, spunkiest of all the youths was Daniel Sargent Curtis, one of the race of that name so well known in Boston for excellence in various departments.

Irish sports and shoneen games the like of lawn tennis and about hurley and putting the stone and racy of the soil and building up a nation once again and all to that.