| An intellectual dapperling of these times boasts chiefly of his irresistible perspicacity, his 'dwelling in the daylight of truth,' and so forth. |
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| He propped it against the legs of a chair, that the dapperling might view his own magnificence. |
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| The stranger, having wiped the pen, presented it to the dapperling, who more debonnairly breathed his vein. |
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| She loves Anthony, a dapperling in person, with nothing to recommend him physically but a missy prettiness. |
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| He was a strange little dapperling, scarcely five feet tall. |
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