How To Use Sprightliness In A Sentence
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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
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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.
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If I was known for my sprightliness on the field, it was because I gave everything to be fit and healthy.
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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
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The professor convinced me through the sprightliness of her conversation.
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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,
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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
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The sprightliness instantly evaporated, and Wendy's whole face went as wobbly as a blancmange.
PROSPECT HILL
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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
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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
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But he was very tentative, fastidiously so, letting Ruth set the pace of sprightliness and fancy, keeping up with her but never daring to go beyond her.
Chapter 9
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Again, after the clear brooding sheen of day has set off the “stark strength and grandeur of rock-form contrasted with the brilliancy and sprightliness of sea,” the sinking sun paints the scene with the most gorgeous of blazonings.
The Land of Midian
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‘But I'm 18, that's how old I feel,’ he says - and there is, to be sure, a sprightliness about him still.
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Many of her letters have been preserved, and show a sprightliness which is well borne out by her portrait, that of a charming old lady in a turban, with bright eyes and a humorous mouth.
Julia Ward Howe, 1819-1910
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All that was left was for French to show his enduring sprightliness with the clincher 11 minutes from time.
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She was an engaging little creature, full of sprightliness and life.
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Consequences were her most frequent choice; for, as she had a ready invention, and a happy turn of sprightliness, which was often mistaken for wit, nobody shone more in this kind of extemporary sallies than herself.
Caroline; or, the Diversities of Fortune
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A spare but rather comely man, he possessed no small sprightliness of talents, and a great readiness of speech.
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Yet it was their sprightliness in attack, their urgency in scampering forward, that characterised the early exchanges at Rugby Park.
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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
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I suddenly feel a new sprightliness, quite unexpec ...
Jean's Knitting
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‘Come on, let's get back to the inn,’ Chenok stood up with a sprightliness that you wouldn't find in a dying man.
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This little sally may be considered as a specimen of that playful sprightliness which is so much the characteristic of the french female.
The Stranger in France or, a Tour from Devonshire to Paris Illustrated by Engravings in Aqua Tint of Sketches Taken on the Spot.