Get some spryness into your feet if you want to be like your father, and run, now, to see Moike loight the fire.
"The Widow O'Callaghan's Boys"
Gulielma Zollinger
And at the words she saw that Mr. Gilman, for all his assumed nonchalant spryness, almost trembled with pleasure.
"The Lion's Share"
E. Arnold Bennett
Lottie, without thinking, stood beneath, watching him, when, with a spryness not in keeping with his years, he sprang down and gave her a sounding smack in honor of the ancient custom.
"From Jest to Earnest"
E. P. Roe