I had a very short nap, woke, leapt out of bed full of beans and sprightly as a 40-year old. |
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His sprightly frame is totally erect with not a hint of a stoop and his quick stride and purposeful gait would put men half his age to shame. |
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Be warned that the gentle pizza bread that arrives at all tables, along with a sprightly pesto dip, can ruin your appetite for the pizza to come. |
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I like to think that the sprightly wit and defiant attitude are typical of McCay himself. |
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Through her fingers, the piece turns sprightly even before the tala leaps in. |
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Even if linked to a typically American automatic gearbox of only four speeds, it has sprightly performance. |
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On the road, this proved to be a particularly nippy car about town, pulling off from junctions with a sprightly performance. |
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But would these sprightly veterans have been better advised to avoid the stresses and strains of full-time toil in old age? |
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They knew there was a lot more to this warm, witty, sparkly and sprightly show than just the title song. |
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A single musician played a sprightly tune on a curious stringed instrument with two necks. |
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He was sprightly, inquisitive, interesting and, in some respects, representative of the other passengers. |
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The Party's central organ, once the epitome of dullness, has had to brighten itself up to compete against more sprightly daily newspapers. |
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The singer has an even, rounded tone, an apposite feeling for ornament and an ability to phrase with sprightly elegance. |
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The sprightly, grey-haired woman, it seems, meets everyone who walks in the door with the same enthusiastic greeting. |
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The serious work is being done by a sprightly black-and-white Border collie named Jessie. |
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The sprightly energumen lives and breathes his words on the stage for 53 minutes. |
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A sprightly woman wrings her hands as if flirtatiously sizing up a fellow resident at the nursing home. |
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There was an amusing final theatrical flourish from the Conservative candidate, John Taylor, a sprightly 63-year-old. |
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His lover, Mercedes, is a sprightly dancer who would have benefited from a brighter costume. |
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He looked as lively and sprightly as ever despite now being in his mid forties. |
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The approach pays dividends in lending the film a sprightly air and making it accessible to all as it gallops through events. |
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Coordination between pit and stage is very good, and the tempi are usually sprightly. |
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Arthur does not slip easily into introspection, he is too sprightly a personality for deep contemplation. |
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Miss Harris is pretty sprightly and talks faster than anyone I've met out here in the land of the slow drawl. |
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There is even a vein of cheerfulness in the sprightly music that frames the piece. |
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The flesh is a little coarse, very juicy, sprightly, subacid, and desirable for either dessert or culinary uses. |
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A sprightly Cancan performance by a Russian team and the graceful ballet movements of the Vladimir-Natasha duo had the audience spell-bound. |
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And every one of them seems to cough up the same anecdotes on the sprightly blonde. |
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His films, sprightly action flicks with clear lines between good and evil and a noble hero, touched a chord in a post-war America. |
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A covey of sprightly grey partridge look back and trundle on. |
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Then comes an elegant, rather sprightly interlude, following which the two ideas are combined. |
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She is 67 now, but sprightly with a fierce, restless energy. |
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I will always remember him for his ever cheerful manner, sprightly walk and his selflessness in giving to his students. |
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After 25 years on the road, the quartet appeared to be as sprightly and exuberant as ever. |
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Everything is relative: I know some very sprightly sixty-year olds just as I know some wizened teenagers? |
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This exuberant and sprightly piano concerto moves in a balanced and even way between structure and virtuosity. |
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Zaara, a carefree, sprightly girl has come to India to fulfill her surrogate mother's dying wish. |
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The sprightly bouquet includes red carnations miniature peppermint carnations, noble fir and holly accented with candy canes. |
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But in the first place two sprightly born musicians in an unprecedented encounter. |
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The ones draining into Washademoak Lake are somewhat more sprightly, especially those originating in uplands to the south. |
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Engage others in sprightly conversation keeping yourself as an observer without being involved. |
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The combination of a physical Australian side and the sprightly Thais did not produce the most captivating of contests. |
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Stepping sprightly onto the motorcoach, the Canadian Dieppe veterans set out on their third day of commemorative activities. |
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Strongly rooted in the spirit of British musical traditions, the suite lets dance take centre stage from the outset, with a sprightly jig. |
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Undeterred, the wily Pozzo used their hostility to spur on his players, who began the game at a typically sprightly pace. |
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Bars of orange in close tones emphasize the pinkness of the pink, which in turn makes the black more sprightly. |
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At 70, he is not sprightly and, remarkably for a politician, is diffident in public. |
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At a lean and sprightly 64 years old, former Bosnian Serb President Radovan Karadzic is actually back in top form. |
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A sprightly 62, he leaps from his chair, scarf round his neck, laughing infectiously. |
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A PM can start a term resembling a sprightly pup, full of vim, but end it looking like the human equivalent of a Labrador whose back legs have gone. |
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None of the youngsters made long-winded speeches, but they said it all through sprightly dances that were a celebration of life and an exhibition of talent. |
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I envisioned a young squirt of an elf, say just a sprightly 100 or 200 years, slipping out to meet his miscreant pals, grab a leaf and ride a wind current. |
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It's all handled in sprightly fashion by copresenters Pegasus Players and Buffalo Theatre Ensemble. |
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The anticipations of the shopkeeper were realized, and his rooms soon became notorious through the charms of the sprightly grisette. |
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Its kerb weight of 895kg is the lowest in its class, allowing for exceptionally frugal fuel consumption as well as sprightly handling. |
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Wherever you want to go, this sprightly Volvo will make a beeline to take you there. |
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But in the stem of this elegant thing, as small as a lorgnette, tiny rose diamonds sparkled sprightly today as they did a century ago. |
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Here, though, Cook was far more sprightly, cracking the odd joke, playfully chiding one reporter and generally giving the impression of a cricketer in a far more settled state. |
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Other songs give a much lighter, more carefree impression of the sprightly 80-something who was, it seems, quite capable of making fun of his own work. |
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Then I stopped, because it seemed a pity to smirch the innocence of this object – its sprightly, purposeless oddity – with a neutralising explanation. |
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Tom Hughes The Singing Adams I Need Your Mind Steven Adams's egocentrically named post-Broken Family Band outfit make their recorded debut with a sprightly piece of guitar pop. |
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However, just before Ibrahima Sylla got them together to form Kékélé, the sprightly fifty-somethings had jammed together live on stage at a wedding in Brussels. |
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Despite the stilted dialogue and a generous grating of cheesiness, Catherine Hardwicke's film is a sprightly romantic yarn. |
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The sprightly six-year-old doesn't let the fact that she has Down's syndrome and a tracheostomy stand in her way of having fun. |
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The sprightly star was so energetic during the get-together with his band, he led a conga line around the rehearsal room at the INEC arena. |
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Ridgewell simply had a dismal evening, finding Villa's pacier players way too sharp and sprightly. |
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In fact, this bunch of sprightly 70-something friends had called a complete halt to their musical activities for several years, but the call of rumba proved too strong in the end! |
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The sprightly 81-year-old also clambered back on stage in October '98, to perform two exceptional concerts at the Théâtre de l'Est Parisien, packed out with fans of all ages. |
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And yet Jacques Dutronc, a sprightly seventy years of age, has returned to the stage seventeen years after his last tour with nothing new to perform. |
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Even though the singer is still ridiculously sprightly for 80, the pressures of international touring were beginning to take their toll on him and he had decided to start calming things down. |
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Many of the police apparently struggled to keep up with the sprightly farmhands. |
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I used the mat during the first few weeks of fatherhood – a time when I should have been in a zombified stupor – and I surprised myself with how sprightly I felt. |
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