Friar John very merrily, and with a sprightly cheerfulness, made this answer to him: Marry, in the devil's name.
Sprightly in old age, his powers of labour were prolonged until past three-score and ten.
But Barrès was too sprightly a spirit to remain a mystagogue.
He did not know what to say to them, and Susie's saucy black eyes and sprightly manner evidently embarrassed and abashed him.
A wife of ready wit and pugnacity would probably have spurred this naturally sprightly man on to further doings, but in contest with the graceful feebleness of this delicate wife of his he behaved like the truly strong.
Here were sprightly Greeks, sage Jews, and moody Armenians, but all outnumbered by the sedate old Turks, with beards sweeping their very breasts.
He was no longer the gay and sprightly Walter Montagu, the friend of Holland and Buckingham, the enamoured knight ever ready to break a lance against all comers for a glance of the bright eyes of Madame de Chevreuse.
It would have been hard for a monarch like Charles the Second, or a minister like Lord Bolingbroke, to resist the charms of those beautiful and sprightly girls who sparkle like diamonds in all the memoirs of that time.
The young Duchess found herself speedily surrounded by a swarm of courtiers, attracted by her sprightly and refined intelligence, her majestic beauty, her nonchalant and languishing grace.
I was always a lover of such antiquities, but I confess at that moment I would have vastly preferred a sprightly modern chintz and a trumpery little French bed in a corner of the Brandon Arms.
Not being able to discover his terminal syllable, he will take the liberty of styling him by his sprightly beginning, and calling him shortly "Lark.
It was raining, and she had a headache, and she would have to hammer out a sprightly column about Paris models before she could lie down.
A Zamora bagpipe regulated their motions, which being no less sprightly and graceful than their looks were modest and maidenly, more lovely dancers were never seen in the world.
He for a considerable time used to frequent the Green Room, and seemed to take delight in dissipating his gloom, by mixing in the sprightly chit-chat of the motley circle then to be found there.
Talking of Garrick, he said, 'He is the first man in the world forsprightly conversation.
But the great event of the evening was the appearance (also for the first time) of Ellen Terry as the sprightly Helen.
I will reward thee Once for thy sprightly comfort, and tenfold For thy good valour.
Where souls do couch on flowers, we'll hand in hand, And with our sprightly port make the ghosts gaze: Dido and her Aeneas shall want troops, And all the haunt be ours.
Attiring herself rather gaily (she was still remarkably good-looking, only a little over 40 years then) she set out with a sprightly step down the main staircase, humming to herself a lively air which she used to sing in happier days.
Ignorant as they were of history, the sprightly grisettes of our days had heard of that; their great ambition was to get the five francs that would open the door of Mdlle.
He did not pretend to the wisdom of his brother De Nemours, nor to the mystic tendencies of his youngest sister, nor to the sprightly wit of Princesse Clementine, and yet withal he understood the French nation better than any of them.
The younger Madame Rouher was by no means as sprightly or as clever as she has become since.
When news came of Burgoyne's surrender, the sprightly girl, not daring to give vent openly to her exultation, put her head up the chimney and hurrahed for Gates.
The Canyon Wren frequents much the same situations as the Rock Wren and has the same sprightly ways.
As a sprightly piece of Nature, the Steller Jay is an unqualified success.
In time of storm, or when emboldened by the continuance of winter, they may make their appearance in the barnyard, or about the outbuildings, where their sprightly notes and innocent airs are sure to make them welcome.
We are puzzled, as the tent pegs are being driven, by certain sprightly songs bursting out now here, now there, from the copse.
But the western bird has the same merry notes and sprightly ways which have made the name of Goldfinch synonymous with sunshine.
The male is said to have sprightly whistling notes of a most agreeable character, generically related to that of the Pine Grosbeak, or Purple Finch, but their exhibition must be rather rare.
The Sparrow, sprightly and alert, stood, after taking his cafe au lait, looking down into the courtyard.
She was a sprightly little person, and had effectively brought off several highly successful coups.
Whenever Garth shall raise his sprightly song, Sense flows in easy numbers from his tongue; Great Phoebus in his learned son we see, Alike in physic, as in poetry.
Waller in Granville lives; when Mira sings, With Waller's hand he strikes the sounding strings, With sprightly turns his noble genius shines, And manly sense adorns his easy lines.
It is not on record that wise or foolish, after one such experience, is ever partial to the sprightly gallop as a road gait.
The sprightly old woman gave her whole body a shake, for the better exposition of her state of mind.
The sprightly French bays tossed their heads, making the harness tinkle.
The art of brief sprightly expression on paper is one that is worth striving for.
A dinner is the entertainment at which sprightly natural talk counts for the most; and this is probably the reason that the world over the dinner is considered the most elegant and distinguished form of entertainment.
I daresay, sir," said Mr. Hobbs withsprightly decisiveness.
Her piquant, ever-sprightly face had lost the arrogance that had troubled all his dreams of conquest.
He was not a creature to strike terror to the heart of any one; on the contrary, his mischievous, sprightly face produced an impression of genuine good humour and absolute indifference to the harsh things of life.
He looked eighty but was as sprightly as a man of forty.
Olga Platanova was the only one who did not look upon the sprightly American as a spy in the employ of the government--a dangerously clever spy at that.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "sprightly" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
