He saw a sudden flicker in the boy's face, an attempt at his old, bright, impudent grin.

Half hidden under the black hair on his forearm was a tattoo, a red seal, it seemed to be, with a wide, impudent grin.

Amazingly, a wide, impudent grin lighted his face briefly.

"It'll take the entire trip back to fill you in," Ninety said with a ghost of his usual impudent grin.

"He's my trainer," Peter replied with an impudent grin.

The best defense is a good offense, and she gave him an impudent grin.

Then he gave me that impudent little grin that's always irritated me for some reason.

"That's what we get for raising a city there," his cousin answered with an impudent grin.

Viridovix left him to himself for most of a minute, then asked with an impudent grin, "Tell me now, how is it by comparison?"

Slowly the strain left his face, replaced by that wonderfully impudent grin Gideon remembered from the first night they'd met.