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Example sentences for "lively"

Lexicographically close words:
livelihood; livelihoods; livelily; liveliness; livelong; liven; livened; livening; liver; livered
  1. The character of its frequenters was described in a lively manner in the first number of the Connoisseur, published in January, 1754.

  2. Another lively scene took place under the palm-tree of the Cocoa-Tree late in the eighteenth century.

  3. All through the lively years of the Restoration it maintained its reputation as a house of good cheer and a wholly desirable rendezvous, and it figures not inconspicuously in the social life of London down to 1761.

  4. Equally lively reputations were enjoyed by the Rose and the Hummums.

  5. In the final number of the Guardian there is a lively letter in response to an attack on masquerading which had reached the public via the lion's head.

  6. Pierce Egan, in the closing pages of his lively account of Jerry Hawthorn's visit to London, gives an outside view of the tavern only.

  7. Nor should the lively episode placed to the credit of a spark of the town in 1726 be overlooked.

  8. And who has not revelled in the lively scene in the White Hart when Mr. Pickwick and his friends arrived in the nick of time to prevent the ancient but still sentimental Rachael from becoming Mrs. Jingle?

  9. Another document, this time of date 1641, perpetuates the memory of a second Westminster inn in a lively manner.

  10. Before that catastrophe overtook him he was the principal actor in a lively scene at the tavern.

  11. There is, for example, that lively paper in the Connoisseur which gives an eavesdropping report of the behaviour and conversation of a London merchant and his wife and two daughters.

  12. Then the manager of the lively carnival in swing at Repton caught Hal's vision.

  13. Night hauling was wearisome work, and if it hadn't been for Hal's lively imagination he would have been tempted to doze on his job.

  14. The lively young Cricket observed this, and began to wonder whether their light would increase still more if they were to laugh.

  15. The Grasshopper made a bound to get out of the way, but at that moment the lively young Cricket laid hold of his leg and held him fast.

  16. Now," said the lively young Cricket, stopping, "can you laugh?

  17. Send the Snail," said a lively young Cricket, who had devoted himself to doing mischief during the whole evening.

  18. It would never do to pass the prince, and it would never do to stir up the princely cream colors by a too lively example, lest evil befall the princely spinal column.

  19. In 1719 Freind addressed a Latin letter to Mead on the subject (the purging was in the secondary fever of confluent smallpox), and a lively controversy arose in which Freind referred to Woodward anonymously as a well-known empiric.

  20. The first is of a strong and lively young man, who was sick above two months and seemed near death, but began to mend and took six weeks to recover, sweating every night or every other night of his convalescent period.

  21. The pulse was neither so frequent nor so strong; the heat was not so pungent; the glow of the integuments was less lively and less general[386].

  22. I thank Jesu he hath not any touch of the infirmity of the head, but onely his choler and flushe apareth, but he is as lively as can be but in the time of his fits onely, which continueth some eight hours[561].

  23. The helps of a lively imagination, joined to great and assiduous practice, carry the art to the highest perfection.

  24. All these may be executed in the most lively manner, in time and cadence, to a correspondent music or simphany.

  25. And upon whom were these lively impressions produced?

  26. When well danced, it has a very pleasing effect: and indeed nothing can be imagined more agreeable, or more lively and brilliant, than the steps in many of the Scotch dances.

  27. But a comet which appeared shortly afterwards raised them from the despondency into which they had fallen; their lively imaginations making it assume the form of a flaming cross leading them on to victory.

  28. The poor lady's headache was excited by causes too serious to allow her any help, even from faith and a lively imagination.

  29. If a lively servant girl was importuned for a kiss by a fellow she did not care about, she cocked her little nose, and cried "Walker!

  30. Belisarius soon discovered, that he was sent to remain the idle and impotent spectator of the glory of a young Barbarian; and his own epistle exhibits a genuine and lively picture of the distress of a noble mind.

  31. But the peculiar infelicity of the Byzantine princes exposed them to domestic perils, without affording any lively promise of foreign conquest.

  32. I have not imagination lively enough to interest myself in the destinies of Sirius in connection with our planet at a date so remote," said Graham, smiling.

  33. Letters of Remarkables in Switzerland The office of Executors a Companion for a Chyrurgeon The Critick The Lively Oracles The heaven of health The history of the Conquest of China Valentine and Orson.

  34. An hour after Chie Lo had gone away, Chin and his friends were having a lively game in the shade of some tall palm-trees, near the bank of the river.

  35. The book's heroine Blue Bonnet has the very finest kind of wholesome, honest lively girlishness and cannot but make friends with every one who meets her through the book as medium.

  36. When Cuffe and his wife with some relatives visited there, meeting was held, and "many lively testimonies borne to the truth of their state and standing.

  37. She took a lively interest in every phase of the Anti-Slavery movement, an interest that father took full pains to foster and to keep her intelligently informed.

  38. Another lively testimony was given to young men in a meeting in Arch Street, Philadelphia.

  39. Society of Friends, of which he was a member) and at which several lively testimonies were borne to the truth, that the Almighty Parent has made of one blood all the nations of men, and worketh righteousness, is accepted with him.

  40. Jill is a little guardian angel to three lively brothers who tease and play with her.

  41. His wife was a lively little person, and almost looked like a bird; her eyes were like those of an eagle, and her long neck was quite downy.

  42. She heard the runners of sleighs squeaking and crunching over the frozen road, and the lively jingle of bells.

  43. And while the duke was sipping his coffee in the little drawing-room of the presbytery, he expressed his lively satisfaction at the scene without.

  44. Escorval; but he nevertheless bowed with studied politeness, and began a lively conversation with M.

  45. Lacheneur, in tones of the most lively affection, "you!

  46. As he pushes, and as the ball rolls merrily on, Mrs. Tumble-bug is continually rolled around with it, and must needs climb backwards at a lively rate to keep her place.

  47. This was their sixth day out from the lively camp of Mucluc on the Yukon.

  48. Past the sawmill and the hospital, at lively speed, they went for a quarter of a mile.

  49. We do not, as we read him, in the least believe in his attitude of Hebrew prophet crossed with Roman satirist, and the occasional presence of a vigorous couplet or a lively metaphor hardly redeems this disbelief.

  50. Ah, father, when the harmony of heaven Soundeth the measures of a lively faith, The vain illusions of this flattering world Seem odious to the thoughts of Margaret.

  51. But it is still a lively picture of contemporary manners.

  52. The same penchant for comedy appears in Down with Knavery, a very free and lively adaptation of the Plutus of Aristophanes.

  53. It has been said, by a strong and lively figure of rhetoric, that this country is a great land animal, which should not venture into the water.

  54. Have we from the effects of their trial any lively hope of success in our present attempt?

  55. She often wondered at the books Mary chose, who, though she had a lively imagination, would frequently study authors whose works were addressed to the understanding.

  56. Ann was particularly delighted at meeting with agreeable society; a little hectic fever generally made her low-spirited in the morning, and lively in the evening, when she wished for company.

  57. This seems to have no meaning other than at a tavern extremes meet, the fast and the slow, the lively and the stolid; or it is possibly a corruption of something widely different.

  58. This is a very simple, but, at the same time, a very lively and amusing game.

  59. This hymn was set to a lively tune, and sung in marked, quick time, with great spirit and animation.

  60. The solemnity with which he spoke was particularly noticed, and the subject was one in which many took a lively interest.

  61. He then painted to me, in as lively colours as he was able, the happiness I should have now enjoyed, had I not foolishly disposed of my ticket.

  62. There was no other treaty but this honest shake of the hand between the adventurers; thus was concluded an alliance, which remained up to the dying day of buccaneering, as fresh and lively as when first made between the adventurers.

  63. In the foresight of a probable arrest, the Count when he started in pursuit of the Duc de Penaflor, had purchased several objects which he found again with the most lively satisfaction.

  64. Chevalier de Fontenay said, with an accent of regret, "My dear Montbarts, I never see an expedition preparing without having a lively feeling of sorrow, and almost of envy.


  65. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "lively" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.

    Some related collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    lively faith; lively interest