sprightliness
Example Sentences
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It had better have strength and Sprightliness and Politeness than Nothing.
From A Full Enquiry into the Nature of the Pastoral (1717) by Purney, Thomas
It should be therefore the Concern of every wise and virtuous Woman, to keep this Sprightliness from degenerating into Levity.
From The Spectator, Volume 1 Eighteenth-Century Periodical Essays by Addison, Joseph
The Conversation of Benedick and Beatrice in Much ado about Nothing, and of Rosalind in As you like it, have much Wit and Sprightliness all along.
From Some Account of the Life of Mr. William Shakespear (1709) by Monk, Samuel Holt
The Polish Ladies are very amiable, witty, and have a good deal of Sprightliness.
How do we in Thought open every Blossom of Sprightliness, or Humanity, or Piety, to its full Spread, and ripen it to a sudden Maturity!
From Submission to Divine Providence in the Death of Children Recommended and inforced, in a sermon preached at Northampton, on the death of a very amiable and hopeful child, about five years old by Doddridge, Philip
