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Usage examples of saucy.

This boy was red-haired, freckle-faced and snub-nosed, and he looked jollier than the other two put together, if that were possible, for his red hair curled in saucy, tight little ringlets, and his mouth was wide with smiles.

Or was it saucy magnanimity, a superior gesture, a token of malapert forgiveness?

He named one of the sauciest of the old-time nautches, and smiled at his own pun.

Rice muffled her in a shawl, Mademoiselle Saucier sat down at her right side and Peggy Morrison at her left, and the next dance began.

I are not the only men in Kaskaskia who admire Mademoiselle Saucier, my lad.

And after all, nobody can settle this but Mademoiselle Saucier herself.

The terrified maid crouched down in a helpless bunch on the hall floor, and Madame Saucier herself brought the lantern from the attic.

Captain Saucier put up the bars, and started a black line of men and women, with pieces of furniture, loads of clothing and linen, bedding and pewter and silver, and precious baskets of china, or tiers of books, upon their heads, up the attic stairs.

Madame Saucier sat down and fainted comfortably, when nothing else could be done.

Madame Saucier, reviving at the hint of such early rescue, and pressing to the window beside her husband.

The keen small shriek was so terrible in its helplessness and appeal to Heaven that Captain Saucier was made limp by it.

Madame Saucier announced over and over to her family and to Peggy, and to the slaves at the partition door, all of whom were waiting for the rescue barred from them by one obstinate little mummy.

Captain Saucier caught the frail bundle and drew the sick girl into the attic.

It was a dream when Captain Saucier sat down and stared haggardly at the two who had perished under his roof, and Colonel Menard stood with his hat over his face.

Hrecker did not think to ask why Saucier was in his doorway, belly straining against his traditional coverall, hairline arching toward the ceiling.