And so when Lilly graduated from High School, third in her class, and again slightly to the rear of Estelle Foote, who read the valedictory, she was executing excitedly, if sloppily, "The Turkish Patrol," was singing in an abominably trained but elastic enough soprano, the "Jewel Song" from "Faust," and "Jocelyn," a lullaby, and at a private recital of the Alden School of Dramatic Expression had recited "A Set of Turquoise" to incidental music.
"Star-Dust A Story of an American Girl"
Fannie Hurst
"Sometimes," I have heard Cressida say, looking up from a bunch of those sloppily written letters, "sometimes I get discouraged."
"Youth and the Bright Medusa"
Willa Cather
He had a sloppily idiotic yearning to throw his arms about the dog's furry neck and kiss him.
"His Dog"
Albert Payson Terhune