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