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Updated: June 13, 2025
If we were a sprightlier nation the effect might not be all to the bad. But most of our slang-mongers are not wits. "He was balmy a treat," I heard a soldier say of another soldier who had shammed insane. In my boyhood I had the ambition it was one of several ambitions to become a courier. A courier's was the life for me.
The sense of her unholy attractions abased and mortified me: and it set me thinking on the strangeness of my disregard of Mdlle. Jenny Chassediane when in Germany, who was far sprightlier, if not prettier, and, as I remembered, had done me the favour to make discreet play with her eyelids in our encounters, and long eyes in passing.
Pritchard said, "if she wouldn't mind her telling the sweetest baby-face that ever had so much sense belonging to it." The morning was half spent in dozing slumbers, when Fleda heard a rush of footsteps, much lighter and sprightlier than good Mrs. Pritchard's, coming up the stairs, and pattering along the entry to her room, and, with little ceremony, in rushed Florence and Constance Evelyn.
"Walk sober off, before a sprightlier age Come tittering on, and shove you from the stage." "Hence to repose your trust in me was wise." DRYDEN'S Absalom and Achitophel. MR. FREDERICK CLEVELAND, a younger son of the Earl of Byrneham, and therefore entitled to the style and distinction of "Honourable," was the guardian of Ernest Maltravers.
No recollection was stirred in him by Escobar's description. Escobar turned away, but he could not quite conceal the relief he felt. "Yes, my friend," said Hardiman to himself, "you have taken your water-jump too. And you're uncommonly glad that you haven't come a cropper." After that noticeable moment of tension, the talk swept on into sprightlier channels. "Shall I take you home?"
For he was not yet adept enough at telepathy to be sure he had got all the information needed about the use of nitrates in the Guddu's diet. But the next day when he went to herd his crew from their compound and down into the mine, he could not help noticing at first glance how much sprightlier they looked than the other crews.
Pen, ink, and paper! she cried joyously. 'The note shall go round at once. 'You're a magnificent sort of person, said Jessica. 'Some day, no doubt, you'll keep a carriage and pair of your own. 'Shan't I, just! And drive you down to Burlington House, for your exams. By-the-bye, does a female Bachelor of Arts lose her degree if she gets married? Nancy was sprightlier than of late.
This is a much more elaborate machine, and is worked by one of those semi-attached couples who might sit to a new Hogarth for a new edition of Marriage á la Mode. The husband's part is very simple. It is to be as little in the way as possible, and to afford his sprightlier half every facility for pursuing her little game. The chief business devolves on the lady.
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