| 1. | The pert may suppose it meaningless, but I listening close. - from Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman |
| 2. | The pert apparel, the deform'd attitude, drunkenness, greed. - from Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman |
| 3. | "And what for would ye go upstairs" said the girl in a pert tone. - from The Best American Humorous Short Stories by Various |
| 4. | Awake the pert and nimble spirit of mirt. - from The Complete Works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare |
| 5. | This pert Berowne was out of count'nance quite. - from The Complete Works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare |
| 6. | E., and her _caro_ _sposo_, and her resources, and all her airs of pert pretension and underbred finery. - from Emma by Jane Austen |
| 7. | "Yes," said Tuppence aloud, nodding at the pert reflection in the glass, "you'll do." She then resumed her normal appearance. - from The Secret Adversary by Agatha Christie |
| 8. | --Let him she said with a pert toss of her head and a piquant tilt of her nose. - from Ulysses by James Joyce |
| 9. | "Dern your skin, ain't the company good enough for you" says the baldhead, pretty pert and uppish. - from Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Complete by Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens) |
