Sentence example with the word 'jauntily'

jauntily

Definition adv. in a jaunty fashionable manner

Last update: October 15, 2015


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As soon as he had seen a visitor off he returned to one of those who were still in the drawing room, drew a chair toward him or her, and jauntily spreading out his legs and putting his hands on his knees with the air of a man who enjoys life and knows how to live, he swayed to and fro with dignity, offered surmises about the weather, or touched on questions of health, sometimes in Russian and sometimes in very bad but self-confident French; then again, like a man weary but unflinching in the fulfillment of duty, he rose to see some visitors off and, stroking his scanty gray hairs over his bald patch, also asked them to dinner.   [Please select]

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Taking heart of grace, I stepped up jauntily to the porch.   [Please select]

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All at once, with some noise, an officer walked in very jauntily, with a peculiar swing of his shoulders at each step.   [Please select]

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On the third day a little figure came without horse or carriage and walked jauntily up to the palace.   [Please select]

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And, raising his hat high and jauntily, he said, with a laugh: "Good-morning, Ravenel."   [Please select]

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"The same," the conspirator answered jauntily; but his anxious eyes roving beside and behind the Duke belied his tone.   [Please select]

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Her long green coat fitted her snugly and perfectly; a cap of the same material was perched jauntily upon her dark hair.   [Please select]

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