"Cuteness" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... title applied to priests and curates; now to knights. "Aye, aye, sir," is the well-known answer from seamen, denoting 'cuteness, combined ...
— The Sailor's Word-Book • William Henry Smyth
... know, Georgiana,' rejoined the elder sister, 'that for cuteness and that kind of thing one must look among the commercial classes, and especially among a ...
— The Way We Live Now • Anthony Trollope
... look very clever," I said; and though divining with a child's cuteness that it was desired I should make a favourable impression upon him, I hoped this would please him, the words ...
— Paul Kelver • Jerome Klapka, AKA Jerome K. Jerome
... old fellow, mightily pleased at this tribute to his "cuteness", "you'd have to get up precious early in the morning to take me in as you know from old experience of me, Vernon! But, what the deuce are you going to Whitehall to kick your heels there for? They'll only keep you waiting ...
— Crown and Anchor - Under the Pen'ant • John Conroy Hutcheson
... much. Go an' get your cord. Show them people that you got some cuteness! The whole thing will be over in an hour. Then we c'n go to bed an' it's all right. An' you don't have to go out in the woods to-morrow. We'll have more fuel than ...
— The Dramatic Works of Gerhart Hauptmann - Volume I • Gerhart Hauptmann
... compassion, smoothing his beard. "You are really losing your old cleverness. Search California! Can't you see yet the wonderful 'cuteness of this man, Endicott? He settled all that before he wrote the letter to Anne Dillon, saying that her son was coming home. He found out the career of Arthur Dillon in California. If he found that runaway he sent him ...
— The Art of Disappearing • John Talbot Smith |
