Crossword-Solution: PERTEST 7 letters, 12 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 9

And he came back the pertest little ape That ever affronted human shape; {100} Full of his travel, struck at himself.

His hair was long and yellow and hung clustering about his shoulders, for all the world like a schoolgirl’s; and he bore himself with as mincing a gait as the pertest of them.

Nature is not democratic, nor limited-monarchical, but despotic, and will not be fooled or abated of any jot of her authority by the pertest of her sons; and as fast as the public mind is opened to more intelligence, the code is seen to be brute and stammering.

Little Fan When little Fanny came to town, I felt as I could sing! She were the sprackest little maid, the sharpest, pertest thing.

Lamb relates how he once saw Elliston, sitting in state, in the tarnished green-room of the Olympic Theatre, while before him was brought for judgment, on complaint of prompter, "one of those little tawdry things that flirt at the tails of choruses--the pertest little drab--a dirty fringe and appendage of the lamp's smoke--who, it seems, on some disapprobation expressed by a 'highly respectable' audience, had precipitately quitted her station on the boards and withdrawn her small talents in disgust.