Spirited

Examples

• Yet it was a hard time for sensitive, high-spirited Jo, who meant so well and had apparently done so ill. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
• The broken-spirited, old, maternal grandfather was likewise subject to the little tyrant. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• Through the deep throng it could pass but slowly; the spirited horses fretted in their curbed ardour. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
• There is nothing more lovely, to which the heart more yearns than a free-spirited boy, gentle, brave, and generous. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
• She was audaciously prejudiced in my favour, and quite unable to understand why I should have any misgivings, or be low-spirited about it. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
• If I was correct, I have got the most spirited horse on earth. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• Her eldest was a boy of ten years old, a fine spirited fellow, who longed to be out in the world; but what could she do? Jane Austen. Mansfield Park.
• You to be low-spirited. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• So Jupe was kept to it, and became low-spirited, but no wiser. Charles Dickens. Hard Times.
• It was, however, published in the papers, and produced a spirited reply from him, just before his departure for England. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
• To promote such improvements was even said to be the chief of the public-spirited purposes for which it was instituted. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• It would not be worth mentioning for its own sake, but I was wakeful and rather low-spirited. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• I am not quite sure what my nervous system is, but I was dreadfully low-spirited. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
• No, said Will, shaking his head backward somewhat after the manner of a spirited horse. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• Sir Leicester very magnificent again at the notion of Mrs. Rouncewell being spirited off from her natural home to end her days with an ironmaster. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• The spirited foreign policy went on steadily under Louis XV towards its final smash. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• The most spirited sketch from his fingers was a blank to their eyes; the most original observation from his lips fell unheard on their ears. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• This spirited burst from Beth electrified the club, and Jo left her seat to shake hands approvingly. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
• Her people were as patriotic and spirited as any. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• Feeling low-spirited and weary, he would go back to his room, with John's leave, and come out no more that night. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
• What clearly-cut, spirited features--thin and serious, but graceful! Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• Miss Amy, I know very well that your high-souled brother, and likewise your spirited sister, spurn me from a height. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
• A light, active, high-spirited man--about five-and-forty years old, to look at. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
• Spirited contest, my dear sir,' said the little man. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
• I like to see sturdy patriotism, on whatever side it is called forth--and so it's a spirited contest? Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
• Insolvency, at all tunes the natural result of a spirited foreign policy, was close at hand. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• She ran away from her friends when she was a young lass--a proud-spirited lass, and pretty, by Jove! George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• They are thoroughly honest and free-spirited. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• But are not these spirited natures apt to be savage with one another, and with everybody else? Plato. The Republic.
• No class of public-spirited and trustworthy men remained; no senate nor council shared and developed his schemes. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.

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