| A chilled soup of fava beans and peas tasted like distilled spring, while a green-bean salad, pertly dressed with a cucumber vinaigrette, was almost too abundant for the plate. |
| He got down jauntily, springily, pertly, and trotted up the steps. |
| A wrench beside his face pertly pushed up the brim of his orange baseball cap. |
| And Sunday shirts were always white with collars starched to make them stand up pertly around the neck. |
| One day she retorted pertly when some covert remark, not altogether to her new mother's laudation, had been made by Lillian. |
| Rebekah Camm, a soprano, was a slyly devious Mrs. Cat. Blythe Gaissert, a mezzo-soprano, sang pertly as Auntie Duck. |
