He was an honest and high-spirited man in the main. From Wordnik.com. [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Volume 55, No. 343, May 1844] Reference
She was a quick-tempered, high-spirited young woman. From Wordnik.com. [A Sheaf of Corn] Reference
The girl, I knew, was quite as high-spirited as young. From Wordnik.com. [Martin Luther King, Jr. Day, 1995, Memorial Issue] Reference
It was the act of a high-spirited, generous, just nation. From Wordnik.com. ["Stops", Or How to Punctuate A Practical Handbook for Writers and Students] Reference
A gallant band of high-spirited chieftains answered the call. From Wordnik.com. [Memoirs of the Jacobites of 1715 and 1745. Volume I.] Reference
It was the act of a high-spirited, generous, and just, nation. From Wordnik.com. ["Stops", Or How to Punctuate A Practical Handbook for Writers and Students] Reference
But this high-spirited youth feels no tremor of physical fear. From Wordnik.com. [Oswald Langdon or, Pierre and Paul Lanier. A Romance of 1894-1898] Reference
We were both high-spirited and each wanted to have his own way. From Wordnik.com. [Trials and Triumphs of Faith] Reference
They are in reality a proud race, great-hearted and high-spirited. From Wordnik.com. [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference
We'll have a good deal of high-spirited honking going on over this. From Wordnik.com. [is Von] Reference
But high-spirited Judith paid no attention to the cutting arraignment. From Wordnik.com. [Judith of the Cumberlands] Reference
This is a gesture entirely worthy of a great and high-spirited people. From Wordnik.com. [New York Times Current History; The European War, Vol 2, No. 5, August, 1915] Reference
One wee cloud blurred the high-spirited light-heartedness of those days. From Wordnik.com. [Pushed and the Return Push] Reference
Godolphin, is exceedingly high-spirited, and fleet in the race or chase. From Wordnik.com. [Official Report of the Niger Valley Exploring Party] Reference
You are assertive, energetic and high-spirited --- the "life of the party.". From Wordnik.com. [Measure Your Entrepreneurial Instinct] Reference
The horses became high-spirited with nothing to do and plenty of good feed. From Wordnik.com. [A Canyon Voyage The Narrative of the Second Powell Expedition down the Green-Colorado River from Wyoming, and the Explorations on Land, in the Years 1871 and 1872] Reference
King of the Ashantees, whom he described as a fine, high-spirited young man. From Wordnik.com. [A Sailor of King George] Reference
The high-spirited men went on their way, rousing the whole population as they progressed. From Wordnik.com. [Colorado Jim] Reference
Mrs. Gaunt was a high-spirited, proud, and sensitive woman; and he crushed her with foul words. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 17, No. 104, June, 1866] Reference
For months, nay, years, the high-spirited Lady Adelina has resisted the idea of yoking herself with. From Wordnik.com. [Ambrotox and Limping Dick] Reference
Now, as has been said, many men were too high-spirited to suffer the injustice that John laid upon them. From Wordnik.com. [A Treasury of Heroes and Heroines A Record of High Endeavour and Strange Adventure from 500 B.C. to 1920 A.D.] Reference
Donna Anna, a lady not only noble and virtuous, but proud and high-spirited, vows to avenge her father's death. From Wordnik.com. [The Standard Operaglass Detailed Plots of One Hundred and Fifty-one Celebrated Operas] Reference
Hardly; she was so high-spirited, so pure in thought -- yet she loved him, and after all love was the great Subduer. From Wordnik.com. [Flamsted quarries] Reference
Because most inmates are young and sometimes high-spirited, the jail can feel a bit like a boarding school for girls. From Wordnik.com. [Women In Jail: Unequal Justice] Reference
It is less high-spirited and more tender in its description of a stricken heart than anything she had attempted before. From Wordnik.com. [Jane Austen, Her Life and Letters A Family Record] Reference
James and his young and high-spirited wife began to disturb the minds of all who were really well wishers to the Stuarts. From Wordnik.com. [Memoirs of the Jacobites of 1715 and 1745. Volume I.] Reference
Every action, almost every word, of this vivid, high-spirited girl seemed to be an echo of her impetuous, wayward temper. From Wordnik.com. [The Paternoster Ruby] Reference
He was in truth a noble fellow; high-spirited and warm-hearted; bold and daring, though, perhaps, a little thoughtless and impetuous. From Wordnik.com. [Fern Vale (Volume 1) or the Queensland Squatter] Reference
Trowbridge skillfully managed his horse, which was high-spirited enough to still be sportive in spite of the long ride of the morning. From Wordnik.com. [Hidden Gold] Reference
The girl in question is mounted on a high-spirited bay which is resenting her mastery and is fighting to get the bit between his teeth. From Wordnik.com. [Bandit Love] Reference
Gregarious, empathetic, high-spirited -- Clinton is very much his mother's son, and by all accounts, they always looked after each other. From Wordnik.com. [The First Friend Of Bill] Reference
Even when only nine years of age, the high-spirited boy, whose martial qualities were afterwards subdued beneath the taming influence of a. From Wordnik.com. [Memoirs of the Jacobites of 1715 and 1745 Volume III.] Reference
A modern-day Western full of horses and gunplay and romance, it transcends the bounds of its genre with rambunctious, high-spirited, bottomless inventiveness. From Wordnik.com. [Literary Lion In The Desert] Reference
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