1 An imp of evil, emblem and product of sin, she had no right among christened infants.
2 But while she said it, Pearl laughed, and began to dance up and down with the humoursome gesticulation of a little imp, whose next freak might be to fly up the chimney.
3 'That's tellings, my blessed infant,' she retorted, tapping her nose again, screwing up her face, and twinkling her eyes like an imp of supernatural intelligence.
David Copperfield By Charles DickensContext Highlight In CHAPTER 22. SOME OLD SCENES, AND SOME NEW PEOPLE 4 The imp is not a Huron," he said, "nor of any of the Canada tribes; and yet you see, by his clothes, the knave has been plundering a white.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore CooperContext Highlight In CHAPTER 21 5 Hold," cried Hawkeye, seizing Duncan by the arm, and detaining him by violence; "you know not the craft of the imp.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore CooperContext Highlight In CHAPTER 30 6 de Monte Cristo, King of China, Emperor of Cochin-China, said the young imp, looking slyly towards his sister.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre DumasContext Highlight In Chapter 52. Toxicology. 7 The little stinging, buzzing imps succeeded in dispelling a mood which might have held her there in the darkness half a night longer.
8 No; it would be better to mislead the imps, and make them believe they must equal a horse's speed to run down their chase.
9 Forty days and forty nights did the imps crave our blood around this pile of logs, which I designed and partly reared, being, as you'll remember, no Indian myself, but a man without a cross.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore CooperContext Highlight In CHAPTER 13 10 The imps have put all their strength again at the paddles, and we are to struggle for our scalps with bits of flattened wood, instead of clouded barrels and true eyes.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore CooperContext Highlight In CHAPTER 20 11 So, after I had shot the imps, I got in pretty nigh to the lodges without further commotion.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore CooperContext Highlight In CHAPTER 25 12 After all, it is likely the imps would have managed to master my scalp, so a day or two will make no great difference in the everlasting reckoning of time.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore CooperContext Highlight In CHAPTER 30 13 He caught changing views of the ground covered with men who were all running like pursued imps, and yelling.
14 Very soon, about a dozen young imps were roosting, like so many crows, on the verandah railings, each one determined to be the first one to apprize the strange Mas'r of his ill luck.
15 But in spite of the comical red imps, sparkling elves, and the gorgeous princes and princesses, Jo's pleasure had a drop of bitterness in it.