sprightliness

How To Use sprightliness In A Sentence

• ‘But I'm 18, that's how old I feel,’ he says - and there is, to be sure, a sprightliness about him still.
• 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.
• ‘Come on, let's get back to the inn,’ Chenok stood up with a sprightliness that you wouldn't find in a dying man.
• I suddenly feel a new sprightliness, quite unexpec ... Jean's Knitting
• 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
• Yet it was their sprightliness in attack, their urgency in scampering forward, that characterised the early exchanges at Rugby Park.
• A spare but rather comely man, he possessed no small sprightliness of talents, and a great readiness of speech.
• 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
• She was an engaging little creature, full of sprightliness and life.
• All that was left was for French to show his enduring sprightliness with the clincher 11 minutes from time.