sprightliness

How To Use sprightliness In A Sentence

• Anything would have been better than the echoes of the sprightliness at the lower end of the table, where Ulick was talking what he would have called blarney to Miss Susan Northover and Miss Mary Anne The Young Step-Mother
• In sum, it was vegete, quick, and lively; open as the day, untainted as the morning, full of the innocence and sprightliness of youth; it gave the soul a bright and a full view into all things; and was not only a window, but itself the prospect. Sermons Preached Upon Several Occasions. Vol. I.
• If I was known for my sprightliness on the field, it was because I gave everything to be fit and healthy.
• In sum, it was vegete, quick, and lively, open as the day, untainted as the morning, full of the innocence and sprightliness of youth, it gave the soul a bright and a full view into all things, and was not only a window, but itself the prospect. The World's Great Sermons, Volume 02 Hooker to South
• The professor convinced me through the sprightliness of her conversation.
• She was not without a certain kind of sprightliness that passed for intelligence; and she could by her adroitness of manoeuvre Autobiography of a female slave,
• An omnivorous troubadour, he roves from Manchester libraries to Colombian villages to salvage musical traditions – with recordings that move from Berber beats to the raptures of a raga, from the thrilling stillness of an Armenian lament to the sprightliness of an Elizabethan galliard. In praise of … Jordi Savall | Editorial
• The sprightliness instantly evaporated, and Wendy's whole face went as wobbly as a blancmange. PROSPECT HILL
• But nature has liberally supplied them with a fund of wit and sprightliness, which is certainly no small inducement to those, who have only transient glimpses of their charms, to wish very earnestly for a removal of those impediments, that obstruct their more frequent presence. Sketches of the Fair Sex, in All Parts of the World
• Her clothing was a loose flowing drapery, which fell from her shoulders to her heels, while instead of agility of motion or sprightliness there was nothing but a dreamy gliding, a kind of somnambulistic movement, apparently without plan or purpose, but not without a certain grace. Lippincott's Magazine, Vol. 22, September, 1878