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archness
[ ahrch-nis ]
noun
- roguishness; sauciness.
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But she kept the same tone, and its tender archness only gave a greater sweetness to his sense of relief.
Archness became this lady of the sunny hair, tip-tilted nose, and complexion that outvied the apple-blossoms.
She laughed with much archness when I shewed her the bread, and its vigorous resistance to the edge of my knife.
However she seemed to have a short cut for getting back to cheerfulness, and set her face to signify archness.
Seeing which she pounced upon it with assumed archness, and pretended to conceal it.
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