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.
"Man of Many Minds"
E. Everett Evans
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.
"Queechy, Volume II"
Elizabeth Wetherell
And after the gayest sort of a buffet supper, the prizes that had been won by a belle and a trooper of '61-she in her grandmother's crinoline and he in his grandfather's gray jacket-were turned over by acclaim to a sprightly lady of seventy and her sprightlier partner of seventy-five, for coming disguised as old folks.
"A Woman Named Smith"
Marie Conway Oemler