liveliness

Example Sentences

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Liveliness extends to the direction, too, which is as frisky as a terrier at a squirrel preserve.

From New York Times • Nov. 19, 2017

Did hear that many had Wagers on the Game, but doubt it, for methinks there had been more Liveliness if much Betting, and Chance of winning or losing Money.

From Manners & Cvftoms of ye Englyfhe Drawn from ye Qvick by Doyle, Richard

Liveliness, and something about turnips—that's what our folks likes.

From In the Mayor's Parlour by Fletcher, J. S. (Joseph Smith)

Sir, No; the grand Mode demands that he be quick, and ready to burst himself in his Lamentations, and weep with Liveliness.

From Observations on the Florid Song or Sentiments on the Ancient and Modern Singers by Galliard, John Ernest

But then his Scenes were commonly less languishing, his Incidents more surprizing, and his Surprizes more admirable; undoubtedly he had more of the Vis comica, which I may translate Liveliness of Intreague, than Terence.

From Prefaces to Terence's Comedies and Plautus's Comedies (1694) by Barnard, John