Animated

Examples

• How cheerful, how animated, how suspicious, how busy their imaginations all are! Jane Austen. Emma.
• By touching something deeply instinctive in millions of people, Judge Lindsey animated dull proposals with human interest. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• Em'ly, indeed, said little all the evening; but she looked, and listened, and her face got animated, and she was charming. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
• It was a happy circumstance, and animated Mr. Woodhouse for some time. Jane Austen. Emma.
• Who is that smooth-faced, animated outrage yonder in the fine clothes? Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• St. Clare read on in an animated voice, till he came to the last of the verses. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
• Animated by this reflection, he stumps faster, and looks a long way before him, as a man with an ambitious project in abeyance often will do. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• The gentle words of Agatha, and the animated smiles of the charming Arabian, were not for me. Mary Shelley. Frankenstein_Or_The Modern Prometheus.
• Methinks I am animated and alert, instead of being depressed and apprehensive? Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
• The streets present a lively and animated appearance, occasioned chiefly by the conviviality of the military. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
• We talk, I believe, all day long: to talk to each other is but a more animated and an audible thinking. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
• As that hope failed, instinctive love of life animated me, and feelings of contention, as if a hostile will combated with mine. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
• Come, Peggy, said Jo, unfolding herself like an animated puzzle. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
• There was nothing very surprising in that; but again, I was rather surprised, when he said, as if he were animated by a brilliant idea,-- Let's go in! Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
• The teachers, animated solely by good intentions, had no idea of execution, and a lamentable jumble was the upshot of their kind endeavours. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• And now nothing remains for me but to assure you in the most animated language of the violence of my affection. Jane Austen. Pride and Prejudice.
• But certainly, when she grew animated, she looked as well as ever I saw her do. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
• The bands played, and so did the fountains; the moon and the gas lamps lit up the scene, and altogether it was a brilliant and an animated picture. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• We will,' was the animated cry of three voices. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
• That is a beautiful face, said Mrs. Pryor, interrupting a brief pause which had followed half an hour's animated conversation. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• The softest gratitude animated her eye as she lifted it a moment. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
• Miss Keeldar, in speaking to Mr. Moore, took a tone at once animated and dignified, confidential and self-respecting. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• He might have been the brass statue which Albertus Magnus is said to have animated just so far as to make it chatter, and move, and be his servant. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
• Although she was lively and animated, her feelings were strong and deep, and her disposition uncommonly affectionate. Mary Shelley. Frankenstein_Or_The Modern Prometheus.
• Every one seemed in high glee; laughter and conversation were general and animated. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
• Dear me, what a very animated conversation Miss Brooke seems to be having with this Mr. Lydgate! George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• Unless I had been animated by an almost supernatural enthusiasm, my application to this study would have been irksome, and almost intolerable. Mary Shelley. Frankenstein_Or_The Modern Prometheus.
• Sometimes he was better than this--almost animated, quite gentle and friendly. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• In the sentence I quote the Commissioners had an idea which might have animated all their labors. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• His appearance re-animated our friend; and, when he came to speak and act, his hesitation vanished, and he shone out supreme in majesty and victory. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.

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