How To Use Alacrity In A Sentence
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Her eagerness, the alacrity with which she pressed herself against him, suggested she'd forgotten every maidenly precept she'd ever learned.
DEVIL'S BRIDE
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Anne herself was well aware of Joan's motive in accepting the suggestion with such alacrity.
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Henry pressed with the alacrity of a bargainer at the negotiating table.
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However, the alacrity with which other Nato states have accepted this role suggests they think they have more to benefit from attaching themselves to the US vanguard than opposing it.
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President Vladimir Putin's critics seized the moment with alacrity to portray him as a whimsical megalomaniac.
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Meanwhile, I've gone through the archives with speed and alacrity, but still can't find the name of the hotel.
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My conjugal partner and I, attired in our nocturnal head coverings, were about to take slumbrous advantage of the hibernal darkness when upon the avenaceous exterior portion of the grounds there ascended such a cacaphony of dissonance that I felt compelled to arise with alacrity from my place of repose for the purpose of ascertaining the precise source thereof.
Sunlight Through The Shadows Magazine Volume 1 Issue 6 (ANSI Edition)
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Mr. Penrose "skedaddled" after the bell-boy with unmistakable alacrity.
The Dude Wrangler
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Young performers are embracing the challenge of his music with alacrity.
Times, Sunday Times
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Florentes annis, — — — they both excel in gifts of body and mind, are both equal in years, youth, vigour, alacrity, she is fair and lovely as Lais or Helen, he as another Charinus or Alcibiades,
Anatomy of Melancholy
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And forthwith the maty-boy proceeded to put his threat into execution, till the master, being the weaker of the two, was compelled to cry mercy; which being at length granted, and the door opened with at least as much alacrity as it was closed, Maotoo decamped without beat of drum, never to appear again.
The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 13, No. 353, January 24, 1829
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Still, we stood in a large shadow of regret as we called the power company and asked; they were glad to comply, and with alacrity, before the snows.
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Anyway, thanks to all for the continued comments and letters -- my apologies for not getting back to you with my usual alacrity, but I assure you I'll be trowelling through the comments and gmail updates all throughout the weekend.
Archive 2005-06-26
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This was not done with sufficient alacrity, enabling him to flee to Germany.
Earthly Powers: Religion and Politics in Europe from the Enlightenment to the Great War
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My conjugal partner and I, attired in our nocturnal head coverings, were about to take slumberous advantage of the hibernal darkness when upon the avenaceous exterior portion of the grounds there ascended such a cacophony of dissonance that I felt compelled to arise with alacrity from my place of repose for the purpose of ascertaining the precise source thereof.
Vampishone Diary Entry
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The internet is largely responsible for enabling new players to get to grips with the game, everyone from grannies to students seemingly taking it up with alacrity.
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Dillingham pointed out that in certain cases the FAA has acted with alacrity.
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Her eagerness, the alacrity with which she pressed herself against him, suggested she'd forgotten every maidenly precept she'd ever learned.
DEVIL'S BRIDE
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It was plain we were impatiently expected; the king retired with alacrity to dress, the guards were despatched after their uniforms; and we were left to await the issue of these preparations with a shedful of tipsy natives.
In the South Seas
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England took advantage of such lapses with alacrity but might care to ponder what hopes they hold against teams less prone to error.
Times, Sunday Times
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With their wings hidden away, they can race through burrows or scrub with the alacrity of shrews and mice.
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Other rural names such as poor man's weatherglass allude to the alacrity with which it closes before rain.
Times, Sunday Times
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This pedantry of costume and the circumspect carriage which it exacted, were pleasantly contrasted with the flowing vivacity of the wearer, engendering by their concourse an amusing compound, which I might call a fettered and pinioned alacrity of demeanor, the rigid stateliness of exterior seeming rather ineffectually to encase, as a half-bursting chrysalis, the wings of a gay nature.
Rob of the bowl : a legend of St. Inigoe's,
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Although John's grandfather was almost eighty years old, he still moved with alacrity.
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These same Kaffirs did their work with amazing alacrity, and looked as if they enjoyed it; there was no "backchat" when an order was given -- usually by friend
The Defence of Duffer's Drift
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The old du Lac aunts at Rhinebeck had put their house at the disposal of the bridal couple, with a readiness inspired by the prospect of spending a week in New York with Mrs. Archer; and Archer, glad to escape the usual bridal suite in a Philadelphia or Baltimore hotel, had accepted with an equal alacrity.
XIX. Book II
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Displaying the same alacrity from the gates as he had when winning a Doncaster minor event, the Mujadil colt was guided by the stands' rails to a workmanlike success.
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Young performers are embracing the challenge of his music with alacrity.
Times, Sunday Times
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One of the key facets of the game of basketball is the speed and alacrity of movement that players exhibit.
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This alacrity was not consistent with their earlier diatribes against military despotism; but the fact was that since "lyddite" had been found out the experts were chary of making it, and the public still more chary of drinking it.
The Siege of Kimberley
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In the first place, "I do agnize a natural and prompt alacrity I find in hardness," though Heaven forbid but that I should perceive beauty wherever it exists (seeing that a "thing of beauty is a joy for ever").
Further Records, 1848-1883: A Series of Letters
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Alternatively, he must, with the same alacrity, forego the emoluments, protection and perks of his exalted office and resume life at ground zero along with normal, endangered citizens.
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This was a situation I would have to remedy, and with alacrity.
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Highland Council engineers responded to the disaster with alacrity and, as soon as the weather faired, had a team of divers on the scene to check that nothing dangerous to shipping lay beneath the water.
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By the time Jack and I had with awkward alacrity bestowed plates, glasses, knives, and forks on the most hummocky portions of the cloth, white and rosy flakes of lobster _à la_ Newburg were simmering appetisingly in a creamy froth.
The Princess Passes
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You become anxious, and this in turn causes you to become diffident, which consequently kills your body's alacrity.
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They accepted the offer with alacrity.
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Now that's what I call real thoughtfulness, and of course I accepted the suggestion with alacrity.
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Odd, for they moved with a terrible alacrity, a sinuous grace.
A Plague of Angels
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The alacrity with which other countries took up the idea is remarkable.
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This is one divorce that conservatives should embrace with all alacrity and enthusiasm.
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Very soon after, this anxiety was tinctured with a feeling more severe; he saw her spoken to negligently by Sir Sedley – he required, after what he had already himself deemed impertinence from the Baronet, that she should have assumed to him a distant dignity; but he perceived, on the contrary, that she answered him with pleasant alacrity, and, when not engaged by Mrs. Berlinton, attended to him, even with distinction.
Camilla: or, A Picture of Youth
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Among the latest batch of begging letters was a request to speak at Gordonstoun, which she has accepted with alacrity.
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Although John's grandfather was almost eighty years old, he still moved with alacrity.
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Young performers are embracing the challenge of his music with alacrity.
Times, Sunday Times
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Mr Garner, who is described as ‘soft-spoken, humble and efficient’, accepted the job with alacrity.
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And after catching the vicar's eye once again, he relented and beckoned to him to come over and join them, which he did with alacrity.
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The next day his peremptory order to the authorities to send the irregulars home was obeyed with alacrity, and this should have been the end of the matter.
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But today's most exciting trends tend to erupt, rather than trickle down; they come and go with dizzying alacrity.
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When the button next to that label lighted up, the phone was answered with special alacrity.
No Uncertain Terms
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Cheered on by a Washington media rooting section that could only be portrayed by a cackling Heath Ledger brought back from the dead and replicated to fill every seat at Politico, Edwards is now caricatured as a shrill, unhinged she-devil rending her garments in airports and slicing the Achilles tendons of underlings with the vicious alacrity of a demanding hellcat.
Tom Watson: The Cartooning of Elizabeth Edwards
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Obviously, because it's still a soft car, you don't expect it to corner with much alacrity, and sure enough it doesn't.
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So when the invitation to become president of BitC arrived shortly afterwards, Charles accepted with alacrity.
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It's a recipe for good decision-making in terms of the speed and alacrity with which you can make decisions, of course.
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But then again, he did leave the helicopter with alacrity when we landed and the door was finally slid open.
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He swung from laying on the charm to cold-eyed boorishness and rudeness with alarming alacrity.
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Just as he had uttered the last patriotic sentiment, he received a slight admonition from behind, by the point of a gen d'arme's sword, which made him leap from the table with the alacrity of a harlequin, and come plump down among the thickest of the fray.
The Confessions of Harry Lorrequer — Volume 4
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You have an incredible alacrity in summing up statistical resonance and pouring it into the simplest graphical display.
No nuts, please.
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Young performers are embracing the challenge of his music with alacrity.
Times, Sunday Times
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Young performers are embracing the challenge of his music with alacrity.
Times, Sunday Times
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Then he turned with a flop, his belly following with alacrity, losing his only good angle.
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Although a friend of the King, my loathing of the overthrown politicians was such that I accepted with alacrity.
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As the match progressed, the players hit the target with alacrity.
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So when the invitation to become president of BitC arrived shortly afterwards, Charles accepted with alacrity.
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Something in the alacrity the "bug-hunter" displayed angered Smith.
'Me--Smith'
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So the federal government responded with astonishing alacrity, great efficiency.
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Then getting upon the animal with more alacrity and haste than could have been anticipated from his years, he lost no time in so disposing of the skirts of his gabardine as to conceal completely from observation the burden which he had thus deposited “en croupe”.
Ivanhoe
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They were being offered a regular and secure investment opportunity which they seized with alacrity.
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It isn't that the British responded to the crisis with insufficient alacrity, or that they showed a want of resolve.
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Having finished the satisfying of his own inward man; and commenced the indulgence of adding his contribution to the general nicotian pregnated atmosphere, while proceeding about his vocation, he replied to William's various questions with a wonderful alacrity and volubility, strangely contrasting with the taciturn moroseness which had appeared to be his usual manner.
Fern Vale (Volume 1) or the Queensland Squatter
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England took advantage of such lapses with alacrity but might care to ponder what hopes they hold against teams less prone to error.
Times, Sunday Times
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They break from defence into attack with alacrity.
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Then he turned with a flop, his belly following with alacrity, losing his only good angle.
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So Venus did by her Adonis, the moon with Endymion, they are still dallying and culling, as so many doves, Columbatimque labra conserentes labiis, and that with alacrity and courage,
Anatomy of Melancholy
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I know I shall immediately receive a letter of credit from you, and then, with what alacrity shall I begin the last journey, I trust I shall ever take; once again in the peaceful shelter of our dear cloyster; never, never more, shall my heart, or feet become wanderers.
Agnes De-Courci: a Domestic Tale
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That is why he will agree to your proposition with alacrity.
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And scarcely had Grumbates, like a Roman fecial, hurled at us a spear stained with blood, according to his native fashion, than the whole army, rattling their arms, mounted up to the walls, and instantly the tumult of war grew fierce, while all the squadrons hastened with speed and alacrity to the attack, and our men on their side opposed them with equal fierceness and resolution.
The Roman History of Ammianus Marcellinus During the Reigns of the Emperors Constantius, Julian, Jovianus, Valentinian, and Valens
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And now he called Ahithophel, and consulted with him what he ought to do: he persuaded him to go in unto his father's concubines; for he said that "by this action the people would believe that thy difference with thy father is irreconcilable, and will thence fight with great alacrity against thy father, for hitherto they are afraid of taking up open enmity against him, out of an expectation that you will be reconciled again.
Antiquities of the Jews
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This was not done with sufficient alacrity, enabling him to flee to Germany.
Earthly Powers: Religion and Politics in Europe from the Enlightenment to the Great War
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he accepted with alacrity
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The duty being assigned by the law to the priests (Le 1: 6), was construed by consuetudinary practice as an exclusion of all others not connected with the Aaronic family. for the Levites were more upright in heart to sanctify themselves than the priests -- that is, displayed greater alacrity than the priests.
Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible
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For the Patriot women take their hazel wands, and fustigate, amid laughter of bystanders, with alacrity: broad bottom of
The French Revolution
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I will," said he, seating himself with alacrity; and turning to the coastguardsman, he added -- "I suppose, Hellyer, you could pick a bit too, eh?
Bob Strong's Holidays Adrift in the Channel
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So it was with great anticipation and alacrity that G.H.S. Tramp Club enthusiasts sallied forth every third Saturday.
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The young gillie had recovered his sgian-dhu from where it had been thrown by Kenneth, and he ran off with alacrity, delighted with his task; while baskets and maunds were brought, and amidst plenty of hearty laughter the potatoes were gathered up, the women entering into the task heart and soul.
Three Boys or the Chiefs of the Clan Mackhai
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I was offered the appointment a couple of months ago and accepted with alacrity - what a tremendous honour.
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Again, opponents have learned on the enemy ball to counter movement by matching their adversaries' lifters, and reacting with appropriate alacrity.
