A few, though, still somehow kept the jauntiness that marked their kind.

There was now a touch of jauntiness about his phrasing.

She tried to be jaunty, but the jauntiness did not ring quite true.

"It could be worse, I guess," the girl said with a calculated jauntiness.

Some of his jauntiness returned, but subdued to a really quite charming level.

Jauntiness was soon eroded by heat, mosquitoes and a lack of water.

Her shoulders lifted, though the jauntiness was still false and forced.

I'm thinking, though, that even jauntiness has its limits.

There was a jauntiness to the mission now, a conviction that they were among friends and colleagues.

He picked up the test-tube, put it in his pocket with a certain jauntiness, and left the room again.

He'd regained some of his jauntiness along with the ability to breathe. "

In fact, the way he looked, I should say he had finished with metropolitan jauntiness for the rest of his life.

The deep American voice had lost its jauntiness.

Since that might include almost all of his nominees, there was a little less jauntiness as the conservative lawyers gathered this year.

They hadn't the jauntiness that was normally so obvious.

And his writing does have a certain charming jauntiness that redeems it somewhat.

In truth, there is a buoyancy and a jauntiness about this team that was not evident four years ago.

To his surprise he was able to say this in a calm voice, without a hint of either pleading or jauntiness.

But the general impression was of an unquenchable jauntiness.

That's who we are," I replied, with a pitiful attempt at jauntiness. "

For all his jauntiness, though, the new priest turns out to be sternly single-minded.

She was not tired of being good, but something in the jauntiness of the hat and the color pleased her.

Her jauntiness reminded me of the mystery girl.

"Can't let you in there, Betty," he returned, with jauntiness equal to her own.