119 examples of minx in sentences

" "She ain't my Muckluck, and I don't believe she's a minx, not a little bit.

"If I had been five minutes beforehand with the minx!"

" "Forward young minx!" commented Sir Beverley.

She's a capricious little minx, and, besides, she's engaged to Jimmy there, though heaven knows whether they'll ever get married.

Of course he turns up again, but such a physical wreck that the minx whom he was to have married breaks off the engagement.

The minx, Bel Alison, is so scathingly drawn that from sheer perversity I found myself hunting for one good point in her character; but without a find.

This "fashionable lover" promises marriage to a vulgar, malicious city minx named Lucinda Bridgemore, but is saved from this pitfall also.

" "The independent little minx!

She develops into a most unscrupulous minx, and, although we are led to suppose that her defects of character were largely due to her origin, I am prepared to allot to Sir Henry and Lady Daring, who adopted her, their fair share in the blame.

A girl of the sweet type, endowed liberally with virtues, is produced as an antidote to the minx, but is no match for her.

Sometimes the actress-in-miniature revolted, poor mite ("she should have been in the nursery, the minx," says some practical reader) and then noble Thomas would give vent to an awful threat.

Its story turned upon the marriage of the elderly Lord Brumpton to a designing young minx who estranges the nobleman from his son, Lord Hardy, the gentlemanly, poverty-stricken leading man of the piece.

The mind of the minx.

The mind of a minx.

The mind of a minx.

The mind of the minx.

I'm just afraid some pretty minx" She laughed and added: "But I won't care if she's a rebel minx.

I'm just afraid some pretty minx" She laughed and added: "But I won't care if she's a rebel minx.

"She's a ve'y sweet little minx. . . .

I see it plainly, you minx, and I acquiesce because, it delights me to give you pleasure, even at the cost of some dignity.

And this was because the minx knew well that I never could abide Katrin Texel, a girl all running to seed like a shot stalk of rhubarb, who would end up in the neighborhood of six foot in height, and just that "fine figure of a woman" which I never could abide.

Now, Mrs. Carroll, Mr. Grey's sister, had long since shown that she was not submissive enough, nor were the girls, the eldest of whom was a pert, ugly, well-grown minx, now about eighteen years old.

The funeral could not be postponed, even for Desmond; but he grew ill-humored at once, swore at Murphy, who was packing a waiter at the sideboard, for rattling the plates; called Ann a minx, because she laughed at him; and bit a cigar to pieces because he could not light it.

And she, too, was looking into my eyes, while we whispered together, and the sly minx read my thoughts, I know, by the look of her.

"The jade turns like a fox in his tracks, and it would be easier to convict a merchant who values his reputation, of a false invoice, than this minx of nineteen of an indiscretion!

119 examples of  minx  in sentences