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sprightly
1. ‘I’d heard that chestnut mares tend to be sprightly and highly strung – it’s clear she likes a challenge
2. The ggs have been showing their tiredness for some miles, Sefir stumbling a couple of times, but seeing the houses ahead, both she and Adamant perk up and we enter the town at a sprightly trot
3. a sprightly virelai and had attracted a small crowd
4. A pair of guards traced her sprightly steps and she thought she heard one muttering under his breath to the other, who merely snickered in response
5. I included this evocation in my talk because, like many other citizens of that sprightly village, I fondly and nostalgically recalled that sacred icon which our ancestors from earlier centuries had bequeathed to us and which a mayor and a priest had, just a few years ago, secretly and foolishly demolished some four centuries after concrete documents rendered evident its existence
6. Sure enough, Hrickletl was nodding off, and Vrikop seemed embarrassed for him, although a sprightly and chipper old fellow himself
7. At that sprightly age when her spirits never drooped, she still studied badly, couldn’t concentrate on anything and slept badly too
8. At her sprightly age, such traditional treatment didn’t affect her
9. and sprightly pace, Connie Moran exited the terminal
10. crevices on features that should’ve been young and sprightly
11. An old but sprightly chauffeur ushered them into the back of the car
12. And often while I wrote scolding you, or was being wise and complacent, or sprightly and offensive, often just then the tired feet of it were bleeding most as they stumbled among the bitter stones
13. Also I know an Isolda; a most respectable married woman, of a sprightly humour and much nimbleness in dodging big emotions
14. Had he not a cousin who had married a German officer? A whilom gay and sprightly cousin, who spent her time, as she dolefully wrote, having her mind weeded of its green growth of little opinions and gravelled and rolled and stamped with the opinions of her male relations-in-law
15. Both of you now exist as a shared, bonded, spirited, sprightly, lively, spiritual union with more energy, and happiness, and bliss, and love that you ever imagined you could feel
16. (not relaxed, but lazy) instead of being sprightly — a normal state after yoga
17. Nothing, unless indeed the coarse buffoonery of Phillips, could be more out of place in an attempt to represent Cervantes, than a flippant, would-be facetious style, like that of Motteux's version for example, or the sprightly, jaunty air, French translators sometimes adopt
18. Dorothea, who was shrewd and sprightly, and by this time thoroughly understood Don Quixote's crazy turn, and that all except Sancho Panza were making game of him, not to be behind the rest said to him, on observing his irritation, "Sir Knight, remember the boon you have promised me, and that in accordance with it you must not engage in any other adventure, be it ever so pressing; calm yourself, for if the licentiate had known that the galley slaves had been set free by that unconquered arm he would have stopped his mouth thrice over, or even bitten his tongue three times before he would have said a word that tended towards disrespect of your worship
19. So said the sprightly Dorothea, and on hearing her Don Quixote turned to Sancho, and said to him, with an angry air, "I declare now, little Sancho, thou art the greatest little villain in Spain
20. temptations of the devil are, and that one of the greatest is putting it into a man's head that he can write and print a book by which he will get as much fame as money, and as much money as fame; and to prove it I will beg of you, in your own sprightly, pleasant way, to tell him this story
21. Meg admired the tragedy, so Jo piled up the agony to suit her, while Amy objected to the fun, and, with the best intentions in life, Jo quenched the sprightly scenes which relieved the somber character of the story
22. Amy was in her element now, and out of gratitude, if nothing more, was as sprightly and gracious as possible, coming to the conclusion, about that time, that virtue was it's own reward, after all
23. She must on no account be offered for sale, unless, indeed, it be in heroic poems, moving tragedies, or sprightly and ingenious comedies
24. Thus arrayed, and with an easy, sprightly, and gallant air, Don Quixote passed out into another room, where the student was waiting to entertain him while the table was being laid; for on the arrival of so distinguished a guest, Dona Christina was anxious to show that she knew how and was able to give a becoming reception to those who came to her house
25. He found nothing to perplex or disappoint, much to admire and approve, for overlooking a few little affectations of speech and manner, she was as sprightly and graceful as ever, with the addition of that indescribable something in dress and bearing which we call elegance
26. That satisfied her, and without waiting for him to speak, she said, in her sprightly way
27. What gallant figure was it, what bold bearing, what sprightly grace, what comeliness of feature, which of these things by itself, or what all together, could have made her fall in love with you?
28. eyes were sprightly and full of meaning; his looks had in them something
29. the serenity of the weather, and the tender politeness of our sprightly
30. He waited for a sign in answer to this request, but there was none; in fact, the Serpent, who up to that moment had been sprightly and full of life, became motionless and almost rigid
31. "How is King Otho getting on?" asked Albert in the most sprightly tone
32. "How sprightly you are," said Caderousse; "One would say you were already in possession of your property
33. Danglars' riveted attention, Eugenie's composure, and the light and sprightly manner in which the baroness treated this important affair
34. "They are sprightly—very sprightly," Milverton answered
35. Cole had prepared my spark and me an occasion field-bed, to which we retired, and there ended the night in one continued strain of pleasure, sprightly and uncloyed enough for us not to have formed one wish for its ever knowing an end
36. Scarlett was much Every girl with any pretense to accomplishments had sung or played the piano, and pleased with herself, for not only had she and Melanie rendered a touching duet, “When the Dew Is on the Blossom,” followed as an encore by the more sprightly “Oh, Lawd, the Confederacy in the last tableau
37. He seemed sprightly, but certainly not, as decades of relentlessly positive publicity might have led one to believe, trailing pixie dust
38. Artie Marshall followed, though not at the same sprightly pace
39. A little flock of these titmice came daily to pick a dinner out of my woodpile, or the crumbs at my door, with faint flitting lisping notes, like the tinkling of icicles in the grass, or else with sprightly day day day, or more rarely, in spring-like days, a wiry summery phe-be from the woodside
40. If he had had fifty thousand francs he would perhaps have sailed to the island of Marquisas like the "cadet" to whom Herzen alludes with such sprightly humour in one of his writings
41. I've talked to the sly puss; she is a sprightly one
42. "Because I was too simple," the sprightly lady answered instantly, up in arms and eager for the fray; but the general intervened
43. The victorias still stop in front of drug stores and wait for the clerks to bring soda water out to the occupants on thirsty days; even occasionally one sees an ox team on the central street; but the personal element, the people, have a zestful, sprightly contact with modern life, and leap forward to meet its requirements and demands
44. From her the English woman has learned, first, that which it seems every transatlantic sister is aware by intuition, that one supreme duty of the sex, as it is represented in society, is to know how to talk a little to everybody, to talk always in sprightly fashion, and never to adopt the English woman’s depressing method of answering all conversational efforts and overtures with chilling monosyllables
45. The Cousin insisted on looking at it, and her comments were of so sprightly a character and so difficult to return in kind, that the Lamb, conscious of the open doors, and not desiring to subject the esprit de corps of his friends to a very severe strain, called in his brother Lambs to meet his relatives