Keene watched him, cutting an almost jaunty figure in Army fatigues and a combat smock, for some unknown reason still carrying his submachine gun slung across a shoulder.

At last the jewelled doors began to move open until they were wide enough to admit a single man-and through this crack strode a jaunty, corpulent figure.

Later on in the evening, Mr. Lloyd pushed for more vigor, throwing out jaunty chromatic figures.

Through the moonlight he saw approaching him the jaunty figure of Smith, the beach-comber.

Men came out, following a jaunty small figure with bushy gray whiskers.

A short distance away a jaunty figure leaned against a trash receptacle.

He looked after the jaunty figure as it departed smartly, back to the scriptorium.

At 86, he still cuts a jaunty figure, strolling through Ithaca cane in hand, though he stopped driving after a serious accident two years ago.

Mr. Deutsch, a jaunty, elegant figure, was known as Ardie to his friends.

"Just passing through," her jaunty figure seemed to say as she disappeared.