"Who are you?" said Mrs. Somers, dipping a cup in the hot water and wiping it with a 'spryness' that was quite imposing.    From Wordnik.com.  [Say and Seal, Volume I] Reference

           Twinkle ran with a spryness we'd never seen from him.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Recall Year] Reference

With amazing spryness she raised herself from the couch and started after us.    From Wordnik.com.  [Fleur De Leigh’s Life of Crime] Reference

His hair was largely gray now, though he still had the spryness of a much younger man.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Note From Luis Posada] Reference

Get some spryness into your feet if you want to be like your father, and run, now, to see Moike loight the fire.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Widow O'Callaghan's Boys] Reference

In his mid 80s, and you would think he was in his 40s in terms of his attitude, his spryness and his willingness to mix it up.    From Wordnik.com.  [Black Judges on Justice] Reference

I accepted this invitation with alacrity, and the old lady set off up the path with a sure-footed spryness that belied her years.    From Wordnik.com.  [Drums of Autumn]

The cat tattoos celebrate an early career as a burglar, and you can imagine from the spryness of these cats how a dwarf can get into all sorts of spaces.    From Wordnik.com.  [Three Stations : An Arkady Renko Novel] Reference

And then, balancing the carton with more spryness than Toni would have expected, Garcia huffed off in the wake of those long impatient legs toward a large low white building that occupied the central position in the clearing.    From Wordnik.com.  [River Of Desire]

She got out of her chair with remarkable spryness and moved to the door.    From Wordnik.com.  [Legacy] Reference

But the former professional baseball player isn't being honored for his spryness.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Washington Times stories: Latest Headlines] Reference

But the former professional baseball player isn't being honoured for his spryness.    From Wordnik.com.  [Thestar.com - Home Page] Reference

"Yo '' re wrong," he shouted, capering with amazing spryness for one whose limbs were old and stiff.    From Wordnik.com.  [In Old Kentucky] Reference

She flashed just the trace of a smile; gathering her skirt she ran on, undeterred by the teamsters applauding her spryness.    From Wordnik.com.  [Desert Dust] Reference

It was the wound in his leg that seemed to bother him, and it was all of a week before he got back again to his old spryness.    From Wordnik.com.  [Before Adam] Reference

After having him step around to notice his spryness, the sale was made, and he was knocked down at one thousand dollars, -- and out he went into fresh air, and he was a glad soul.    From Wordnik.com.  [Battles and Victories of Allen Allensworth, A. M., Ph. D., Lieutenant-Colonel, Retired, U. S. Army] Reference

Austin Playhouse Artistic Director Don Toner seems to resist his character, retaining a shade too much of his own spryness, and Michael Stuart's prop cane is not always his friend.    From Wordnik.com. Reference

She has been showing a little more spryness lately, making jaunts back to George's Jungle several times a week and coming back under her own steam; a vast improvement from having to carry her 50-plus-pound hind end back from the park.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Delphos Herald] Reference

= a lac´ ri ty =: eagerness; spryness.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Literary World Seventh Reader] Reference

Now get a spryness about you. ".    From Wordnik.com.  [The Rejuvenation of Aunt Mary] Reference

The word no, hung on his lips, like a wormy apple, jist ready to drop the fust shake; but before it let go, the great strength, the spryness, and the oncommon obedience of pony to the bit, seemed to kinder balance the objections; while the sartan and ontimely eend that hung over his own mare, during the comin 'winter, death by starvation, turned the scale.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Attaché; or, Sam Slick in England — Complete] Reference