Example Sentences

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She was rosy-faced and blue-eyed and wholesome, with the roundness and trigness of a geranium leaf.

From Rilla of Ingleside by Montgomery, L. M. (Lucy Maud)

At first sight he liked her, for her good looks, for her trigness, her directness and more than any of these for the excellent mental poise which so patently was a part of her.

From Sundry Accounts by Cobb, Irvin S. (Irvin Shrewsbury)

Ray had the hint of something higher and more delicate about her, though she had the trigness, and readiness, and every-day-ness too.

From The Other Girls by Whitney, A. D. T. (Adeline Dutton Train)

His appearance conveyed the impression of quiet trigness and gentility.

From Unleavened Bread by Grant, Robert

She had dressed herself simply, but with effective trigness.

From Unleavened Bread by Grant, Robert