" He kissed her lightly, perking up her shoulder butterflies of green sequins, and standing off to observe.

A little encouragement from you and we could perk the place up right smart.

It's right pitiful the way her grandmother knows it, too, and makes herself talk English all the time to please the child and tries to perk up for her.

I've seen her sitting here as perk as you please, and the minute you come in the room down goes her head likelike she was dying.

But what I complain of is, that they carry this preference so undisguisedly, they perk it up in the faces of us single people so shamelessly, you cannot be in their company a moment without being made to feel, by some indirect hint or open avowal, that you are not the object of this preference.

But this we bring is but to serve the time, A poor device to pass the day withal: To loftier points of skill we dare not climb, Lest (perking over-high) with shame we fall.

You light-skirt stars, this is your wonted guise, By gloomy light perk out your doubtful heads; But when Dan Phoebus shows his flashing snout, You are sky-puppies; straight your light is out. PHANTASMA.

As, in the sunshine of the morn, A butterfly (but newly born) Sat proudly perking on a rose; With pert conceit his bosom glows; His wings (all-glorious to behold) Bedropp'd with azure, jet, and gold, Wide he displays; the spangled dew Reflects his eyes, and various hue.

V. invest; cover &c 223; envelope, lap, involve; inwrap^, enwrap; wrap; fold up, wrap up, lap up, muffle up; overlap; sheath, swathe, swaddle, roll up in, circumvest. vest, clothe, array, dress, dight^, drape, robe, enrobe, attire, apparel, accounter^, rig, fit out; deck &c (ornament) 847; perk, equip, harness, caparison. wear; don; put on, huddle on, slip on; mantle.

V. heighten, elevate, raise, lift, erect; set up, stick up, perch up, perk up, tilt up; rear, hoist, heave; uplift, upraise, uprear, upbear^, upcast^, uphoist^, upheave; buoy, weigh mount, give a lift; exalt; sublimate; place on a pedestal, set on a pedestal.

breathe, respire; drink in the ozone; take a break, take a breather, take five, draw breath, take a deep breath, take breath, gather breath, take a long breath, regain breath, recover breath; get better, raise one's head; recover one's strength, regain one's strength, renew one's strength &c 159; perk up, get one's second wind. come to oneself &c (revive) 660; feel refreshed, feel like a giant refreshed.

V. be proud &c adj.; put a good face on; look one in the face; stalk abroad, perk oneself up; think no small beer of oneself; presume, swagger, strut; rear one's head, lift up one's head, hold up one's head; hold one's head high, look big, take the wall, bear like the Turk no rival near the throne

Next moment Adam leaned on the table, steadying a heavy automatic pistol, and three quick flashes streamed from the perking barrel.

And Muskwa, perking up his little ears, came and stood beside him, his sharp little eyes peering from Thor off into sunlit space, and then back to Thor again, as if wondering what was about to happen next.

Perk, however, had been well entertained in Paris as the coming English king, and while there was not permitted to pay for a thing.

Are there any modern portraits more familiar than the pensive, wedge-like head of Augustus, with his sharp-cut lips and nose,or the dull phiz of Hadrian, with his hair combed down over his low forehead,or the vain, perking face of Lucius Verus, with his thin nose, low brow, and profusion of curls,or the brutal bull head of Caracalla,or the bestial, bloated features of Vitellius?

No; it's us, Perk.

Contrast, you knoweh, Perk?

Perk fell off just now and broke in two.

All right, Perk. Bradley, you and Barlow help Thaddeus.

Perk, I'll be your under-study at dinner, while you are studying up.

The white head went up with a fling of the heavy mane, to perk ears forward at the sound.

She tucked in a stray curl or two, gave a perk to the black bow, stood on her tip-toes to make sure that the silk knot which fastened her sailor collar was in trim shape, and felt of the crisp strings which tied her decidedly coquettish apron, to ascertain that that bow was also snug.

3. Some half a year after in the form of a Pig, I met with the Rogue, and he look'd very big; I catch'd at his leg, laid him down on a log, Ere a man could fart twice, I had made him a Hog. Owgh, quoth the Devil, and forth gave a Jerk, That a Jew was converted, and eat of the Perk.

" "That brisk, cheery, neat man by his side is Nortonlively, smirky and smilingyou see the hair leaves the top of his head, to lay the fact bare that there is not much there; and just why that snubby little nose should perk itself up, I can't tell, unless to find out whether there really is anything above it.