"Tricksy" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... anxious solicitude of a nurse. Indeed Aunt Liza throughout evinced the greatest willingness to make friends; she was so fat and comfortable she just couldn't help it. It was only when Evan started to question her that she showed what a tricksy spirit inhabited the ...
— The Deaves Affair • Hulbert Footner
... sat in that open boat, midst of the Sunderbunds, at my domestic antipodes, happened to me the most wondrous transformation which the tricksy stage-carpenters and scene-shifters of the brain have ever devised. For this same far-stretching horizon, which had just been alluring my soul into the depths of the creative period, suddenly contracted ...
— Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, April, 1876. • Various
... discretion, how his words are suited! The fool hath planted in his memory An army of good words; and I do know A many fools, that stand in better place, Garnish'd like him, that for a tricksy ...
— Shakespeare: His Life, Art, And Characters, Volume I. • H. N. Hudson
... he said harshly. "You are all alike, you women, with your cat-like purrings and tricksy eyes that surpass most other things in deceit. I do not deny both that you know well how to feign and that I would like to believe you, but you must prove it first before ...
— The Ward of King Canute • Ottilie A. Liljencrantz
... take it up and look at it! Once, when she suddenly touched the brands, she fancied she saw the tricksy little thing tumbling about in the sparks; another time she missed catching it in a rose. Small as it is, it works, sweeps, arranges, saves ...
— La Sorciere: The Witch of the Middle Ages • Jules Michelet
... and then the band With movements light and tricksy, Made stream and forest, hill and strand, Reverberate ...
— Poems of American Patriotism • Brander Matthews (Editor)
... They were tricksy, capricious, peevish, easily offended, malicious if not wholly malevolent, and dangerous alike to trust and to thwart. All this, together with their habit of trooping in procession and dancing under the moon; their practice of snatching away to their ...
— The Balladists - Famous Scots Series • John Geddie |
