Whether singing Spanish songs to her own accompaniment on a guitar, or discoursing learnedly on the habits of the migratory wild-fowl with which Patagonia abounds, she never failed to acquit herself with vivacious charm.
Two or threevivacious groups crossed the veranda, and a porter turned on a lamp.
No more brilliant, sparkling, vivacious trifle, is to be found in our literature than the Rape of the Lock, even in this early form.
The opening lines of the Prologue to the Satires give a vivacious description of the crowds of authors who rushed to "Twitnam," to obtain his patronage or countenance, in a day when editors were not the natural scapegoats of such aspirants.
If she appears of that port vivacious type just above the moron level--in other words if she is neither bright nor really feeble-minded--then sex pressure is increased.
Philosophaster is a vivacious exposure of charlatanism.
His face is much corrugated, but it bears the traces of vivacious thought and emotion, not the withering print of passion.
As the vivacious Madame St. George stepped into the boat, with perhaps some insolent gesture of adieu, a man in the mob flung a stone at her French cap.
She was the best of male coxcombs, stage coquettes, and country dowdies, a vivacious mimic, and of the most versatile humour.
In the midst of vivacious discourse her eye still wandered to Caroline.
If you want a respectable witness who will see nothing inconvenient, choose a vivacious gentleman, very much on the alert, with two eyes wide open, a glass in one of them, and an entire impartiality as to the purpose of looking.
She was an impassioned, vivacious woman, fond of adoration, exasperated by five years of marital rudeness; and the sense of release was so strong upon her that it stilled anxiety for more than she actually enjoyed.
Being on a journey once with his brothers, the Duc de Coislin and the Cardinal de Coislin, the party rested for the night at the house of a vivacious and very pretty bourgeoise.
At the end of the seventeenth century a French traveller, named Misson, wrote a very vivacious account of his travels in England.
Among the most vivacious and docile members of this family, the Dwarf Parrots (Psittacula) deserve our particular notice, for their behaviour is quite in harmony with their beautiful exterior.
In its movements the Wood Lark is extremely vivacious and active; it runs with short steps over the ground, carrying its body and crest so erect as to give it an air of great self-importance and trimness.
These qualities were revealed in his restlessvivacious eyes, in his movements and gestures, and even broke out in extraordinary grimaces, as already remarked.
This is a peculiarly interesting little book, written in the simple, vivacious style that makes these little manuals as delightful to read as they are instructive.
No less an authority than the Times declared that she had played her part with a vivacious precocity that proved her a worthy relation of her sister.
If I had to describe her acting in those days, I should say its chief characteristic was a vivacious sauciness.
Nothing could they guess from that little dark, sparkling face, as vivacious and merry as ever.
It was evident that his mind had relapsed into one of those brooding reveries that so often obscured his playful and vivacious mien, as a shadow darkens the golden tints of the field of ripe and waving corn.
He was delightful, his vivacious gaiety as exhilarating as wine.
He mixed freely at the same time in Dublin society functions of all kinds, and was always a very vivacious and welcome guest at any house he cared to visit.
They, on the contrary, reveal an ardent, vivacious spirit, a life full of exuberance.
The following day a little girl brought me a charmingly vivacious written composition, in which she told of her enthusiasm over the new work, describing even the less noticeable details of the little violet.
Abel Peartree seemed to like the pose, and grew momentarily vivacious in knightly response.
The respect which Auntie Hamps showed for Clara and for Edwin, and in a slightly less degree for Maggie, was a strange phenomenon in the old age of that grandiose and vivacious pillar of Wesleyanism and the conventions.
His manners were most popular, and it was remarked that he carried his cheerful and vivacious spirit into every society he frequented.
