How To Use High-spirited In A Sentence
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Over 300 people attended the ceremony, which was followed by a high-spirited barbecue.
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The high-spirited crowd was then entertained by two big bands.
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Later, Khan appeared at the Jemaa El Fna, the sprawling square of the Medina quarter where an even more high-spirited crowd awaited his arrival.
Ariston Anderson: World's Biggest Star, King Khan, Opens Marrakech Film Festival
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This was Huston's sweet spot—high-spirited, far-darting male adventure stories, which let him exercise his visual storytelling skills, which were less apparent to others than to him.
The Man Who Would Be King
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Looking after a high-spirited child can soon wear a person down.
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Michel Tremblay's 1967 succes-de-scandale, Les Belles-Soeurs, put him on the map, and the joual filled plays about high-spirited, working-class Quebecers that followed, quickly made Tremblay a cultural icon in his native province.
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The spotlight event was an exhibition of cadenced, old-school courbettes, croupades and caprioles, all of them stylizations of the leaping, twisting, fighting and frolicking of high-spirited horses in pasture.
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Rather, Lickona provides a delightfully high-spirited and candid account of living Catholicism as though it were true, scapulars included.
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Ceilidhs, like American barn dances, are high-spirited social affairs with group dances and callers who help novices, like this young Scot in the Outer Hebrides' Castlebay, learn the steps.
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Other people are attracted to the high-spirited personality of the Ariens.
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But it seemed these beer busts were a diversion of these high-spirited young fellows whereby they whiled away the tedium of existence by making fools of their betters.
Chapter 27
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When Cary shows up to a high-spirited clambake with Ron and his pals, she's uncomfortable and overdressed in a tight gray ensemble.
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Biver has an electrifying personality, and in spite of the language barrier, the evening became very high-spirited, with many of the visitors — the majority of whom had never before heard of Hublot — spontaneously ordering Biver's signature overscaled sports watches.
Time Travels Nick's Picks
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Richmal Crompton's famous stories of high-spirited tearaway William Brown were first adapted for television in a 1951 BBC play starring Robert Sandford.
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Each day is a struggle -- to go on after her parents 'sudden death, to win her rightful inheritance from her untrustworthy half-brother, and to raise her high-spirited younger sister.
On Tall Pine Lake by Dorothy Garlock: Book summary
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Relations between members were informal, often tense, and their debates were certainly high-spirited.
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Born into a family of high-spirited women, she was a feminist before that word became fashionable.
Stephen Schlesinger: A Memoir at Age 99
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Above all else, it is an extended, high-spirited, ludic exploration of human language-making.
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The Republicans sought for the spot, but it was preserved from their knowledge; and the high-spirited, pure-hearted Henri de la Rochejaquelein sleeps beside his enemy in the midst of the woodlands where be won for himself eternal honour.
A Book of Golden Deeds
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She was a very competitive and high-spirited child.
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In the interest of not getting myself killed, I started to read and educate myself on ways to manage a high-spirited horse.
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When Cary shows up to a high-spirited clambake with Ron and his pals, she's uncomfortable and overdressed in a tight gray ensemble.
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Norine was the high-spirited sort who would never unbend.
"Power" by Harl Vincent, part 12
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Pearl was just a great, echoing, empty marble hall with a menu, which was the sort of list you might expect to be offered at Peter Mandelson's wake, but without that general sense of high-spirited glee and jollity.
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The sea seemed to reflect my mood: high-spirited and cheerful.
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I saw an altogether different person, a high-spirited, hard-working creative filmmaker, interacting with his stars and staff.
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Occasionally some unhinged goon will run alongside showering riders with water or giving them a push up the hill but it is mostly high-spirited encouragement.
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The mere thought of standing in front of a classroom of high-spirited Scottish teenagers is enough, you might think, to make the vast majority of septuagenarians shudder.
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The difference between the two first sentences is the difference between a high-spirited epic of self-assertion and a slender account of the threadbare ego.
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It was an ill-assorted gang he had joined: high-spirited youngbloods like Cornelius Cethegus, out for a fight; aging and dissolute noblemen like Marcus Laeca and Autronius Paetus, whose public careers had been frustrated by their private vices; mutinous ex-soldiers led by rabble-rousers like Gaius Manlius, who had been a centurion under Sulla.
CONSPIRATA
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As a man he is high-spirited and energetic, always ready to fight for his Sultan, his country and, especially, his Faith: courteous and affable, rarely failing in temperance of mind and self-respect, self-control and self-command: hospitable to the stranger, attached to his fellow citizens, submissive to superiors and kindly to inferiors — if such classes exist: Eastern despotisms have arrived nearer the idea of equality and fraternity than any republic yet invented.
The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
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The show was big, generous, inclusive and high-spirited.
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He became a movie legend by thrilling audiences with his high-spirited adventures, roguish charm, and dashing good looks.
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The strong-willed novelist struggles to balance the needs of her frail and temperamental lover against those of her high-spirited daughter and her Oedipally challenged son, who hates him for it.
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One of Arthur's sparks of kindly feeling awoke when he beheld his once handsome, high-spirited sister, altered and wrapped up, entering the room with an invalid step and air; and though she tried to look about in a bright 'degage' manner, soon sinking into the cushioned chair by the window with a sigh of languor.
Heartsease, Or, the Brother's Wife
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As they entered, the orchestra were sounding the preliminary whimpers to a maxixe, a tune full of castanets and facile faintly languorous violin harmonies, appropriate to the crowded winter grill teeming with an excited college crowd, high-spirited at the approach of the holidays.
The Beautiful and Damned
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The high-spirited Next Time We Take Your Instruments recalled the threat made to a busking Räfven by German police; a fierce tambura lute-intro on Stortrappen dovetailed with trombone and twanging double bass.
Evening Standard - Home
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Such is part of the defence of the high-spirited Joan of Arc, who was taken prisoner by the Duke of Burgundy on the 23d of May 1430 -- sold by him for a large sum to the English, and by them put on her trial as a heretic, idolatress, and magician -- condemned, and finally burned alive, the 30th of May 1431.
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 61, No. 378, April, 1847
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It's like asking a high-spirited young gun dog to join the parade at Crufts.
Mark Cavendish is no mountain man, but he adores the Giro d'Italia
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More than 6,000 people took to the streets of Dublin at the weekend in a high-spirited and colourful celebration.
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His clever, careful son and his high-spirited daughter stopped bickering when he came into the kitchen and from the narrow hall watched him with embarrassed anxiety when he stopped on the stairs to gather a little breath to go up another step.
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She had been bright and funny and high-spirited, excited about being in Greece.
A KNIFE BETWEEN THE RIBS
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But no; the brigadier's servant and the mess-waiter, who was a high-spirited and intelligent dragoon, sought to vary the _ennui_ of the march, and to assert their superiority over the Kaffirs in the matter of stage-driving, by taking the _fourgon_ and its half broken team full gallop down the incline terminating in Houwater _vlei_.
On the Heels of De Wet
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It toys with high-spirited farce but also vigorously satirises the way marriage is viewed entirely as monetary arrangement.
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He was caught up in the high-spirited behaviour.
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A discordant and high-spirited version of an old tune rang out into the evening air.
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Her father and I had worried about our high-spirited daughter getting into trouble if she stayed home alone all summer.
Chicken Soup for the Soul: Grandmothers
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When they set out to make their fortune, at a very early age, their mother also having in the meantime died, two half-educated but high-spirited and strongly-feeling boys, they had parted with a kind of vow that all their exertions should be addressed to the task of regaining their old possessions and home, and that neither should set foot again upon that beloved alienated land until able in some measure to redeem this pledge.
Kirsteen: The Story of a Scotch Family Seventy Years Ago
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At midnight, too, some high-spirited folk take part in all sorts of capers.
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Other people are attracted to the high-spirited personality of the Ariens.
