He stopped the sassing of teachers and harassment in the hallways.

He took no sassing.

I was nervous, recalling several sarcastic quips I had made in front of her sons, both of whom had a penchant for adolescent sassing and boisterousness.

Tree rat showed up with more, and they cheeked at each other about who should feed me.

"She's cheeked in, and they're going to ring her room.

To be cheeked like that by a first-former-her own cousin!

His high- cheeked face showed a trace of fear and realized that he faced certain death.

You may have cheeked him once too often.

When last he cheeked his watch, five minutes earlier, the time had been four a.m.

Only if Banks cheeked her off or tried to resist did his father step in and sort things out with his belt.

Hoping against hope, he cheeked the jeep.

His features were brown, high- cheeked, intelligent.

As soon as we're finished here I'm going to have it cheeked out with an ornithologist.'

It meant that he hadn't been cheeked by a constable, he'd merely dealt with a simpleton.

And when he asked you what you were up to with a rifle, you cheeked him, and ran off.

She was a blue-eyed, jolly girl of the very best sort, but the way she cheeked my big brother used to frighten me.

Passepartout wished to throw the colonel out of the window, but a sign from his master cheeked him.

Willie looked rosy cheeked in the bright light, not quite alive, but healthy for a deadman.

From over the bridges and Liffey walls they cheeked the captains with cries of:

Ai was awake now, lying under the quilt, her sweet-natured face pink cheeked and dark eyed from sleep, like a doll's.

Farrah and Velvet gasped at his audacity, but on this occasion Wayne did not seem to mind being cheeked.

Her approach to our chosen idol may have slightly lacked in reverence; she may, indeed, in plain English, have cheeked him.

She, too, remembered the day he had come into the yard and cheeked her father, telling him he could choose his name from Smith, Jones, or Robinson.

He closes his eyes to lots of things but I wouldn't answer for your chances to be kept on here if he found you openly cheeked her. "

They were too skinny, hollow- cheeked, and young to look truly fierce, but they cer- tainly lacked nothing in grim determination.

And yet now the land seemed strangely empty: no giant herbivores, no pursuing carnivores crossed the empty stage beyond his ancestor's thin- cheeked, shadowed, huge-eyed face.

Nothing's the same: Father's lost; there's been trouble with Ella again; she cheeked Elaine and she wanted me to dismiss her, but ... but I couldn't.

It amused him, seemingly, to shock people by making a pink- cheeked, moist-eyed boy of twenty-five Commissioner of the Federal District, which included Washington and Maryland.

He admits to having been an average student, one who sometimes sassed the teachers.

The other is that nobody ever gets punished for sassing him.

I'll bet you sassed him and practically bit his head off.

Winfield went 1 for 22 in the 1981 Series and then he started to sass me.

Jay couldn't even work up the energy to sass her.

"No daughter of mine is going to sass her elders!"

They were quiet children, never sassed her, always helped with the youngsters.

White sassed back and broke his stick over the boards.

The witnesses were expected to answer without being irrelevant or sassing the members of the court.

I was sassing her and she just lost it.

I do believe that man was a sinner, the way he sassed back at Father.

I sassed her about wanting a room to herself, so she isn't speaking to me.

The players, off court and effortlessly gorgeous in street clothes, sass her right back.

"It's hard to sass or be mean to somebody's mom.

Several women laughed and smiled and sassed the young men.

The players wore black armbands just to sass the owner.

"Do you sass everyone this way, or just me?

Rachel sassed him straight to his face, and tried to climb right into the airplane with her things!

I'd like to get up and tell you so, but it isn't a Murray tradition to sass back in church.

Not exactly sassing back, but just about nearly.

The one time I sassed her, Laura made me regret it.

If they do, will more sass from the engine compartment be enough to coax current owners to buy another?

"Don't sass, young man, especially when I'm about to be sentimental.

"And don't sass me," he threw in for good measure.

"I could sass the admirals as the men couldn't," she recalled later.