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sprightliness |
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Translations sprightliness n (of person, tune) → Munterkeit f, → Lebhaftigkeit f; (of old person) → Rüstigkeit f; (of walk, dance) → Schwung m How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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In those days conversation was still cultivated as an art; a neat repartee was more highly valued than the crackling of thorns under a pot; and the epigram, not yet a mechanical appliance by which the dull may achieve a semblance of wit, gave sprightliness to the small talk of the urbane. He was not ungenteel, nor entirely devoid of wit, and in his youth had abounded in sprightliness, which, though he had lately put on a more serious character, he could, when he pleased, resume. You shall not shake me off, for all that,' replied Miss La Creevy, with as much sprightliness as she could assume. |
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