Spirited Sentence Examples

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  • Your father told me you were a spirited girl.

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  • For delicate and spirited execution, together with refined gracefulness of design, it is unsurpassed by any similar work of art.

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  • Katie had reason to know how stubborn and spirited Carmen could be when she did care.

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  • Everyone told her she looked very handsome, and she was in a spirited and energetic mood unusual with her.

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  • She stepped into the crowd with Evelyn, who was soon spirited away by Lishana.

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  • I enjoy seeing my friend because he is always so well spirited and helps me to view life from another perspective.

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  • Jackson sat and broke into a spirited arrangement of "The Entertainer."

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  • At fifteen he was a man, resolute, spirited, enterprising, with the germs of many talents and virtues, but rough, reckless and very imperfectly educated.

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  • Foster, the candidate upon whom the Douglas and Breckinridge Democrats and the Constitutional Unionists had united, by 32,000 votes, after a spirited campaign which was watched with intense interest by the entire country as an index of the result of the ensuing presidential election.

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  • At the same instant the sun came fully out from behind the clouds, and the clear sound of the solitary shot and the brilliance of the bright sunshine merged in a single joyous and spirited impression.

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  • Dean expected a spirited argument at the very least, but tomorrow was Wednesday, Atlantic City day, and Fred needed a good night's sleep.

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  • Where Erasmus excelled was in prefaces - not philological introductions to each author, but spirited appeals to the interest of the general reader, showing how an ancient book might be made to minister to modern spiritual demands.

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  • This spirited policy restored the waning prestige of the Hat party and firmly established their anti-Muscovite system.

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  • Despite its large Southern population, Indiana's answer to President Lincoln's first call for volunteers at the outbreak of the Civil War was prompt and spirited.

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  • The 107 timepiece series successfully blends classic Gucci style with a sense of free spirited joy.

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  • He had interested the king, and to some extent the nation, in a spirited foreign policy, had diverted their attention from domestic questions, and had staved off that parliamentary attack on the church which had been threatened fifteen years before.

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  • Bishop Coxe wrote spirited defences of Anglican orders and published several volumes of verse, notably Christian Ballads (1845).

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  • These non-rational elements he further distinguished as appetitive (ro E7rLOvi..arr KOv) and spirited (TO Ov,uoabS or Ovu6r) - the practical separateness of which from each other and from reason he held to be established by our inner experience.

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  • Subsequently he held other positions at Strassburg, Cologne and Augsburg, and in December 1577 was chosen elector of Cologne after a spirited contest.

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  • The last abbot of Glastonbury, Richard Whiting, caused these relics to be spirited away, refusing to give them up.

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  • From the works sinister opening motif through the lyrical second movement to the spirited final allegro, there is a refreshing sense of excitement.

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  • After much spirited bidding around the ring she was finally knocked down to RA & MD Butler of Thatcham.

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  • In an admirable display of defense in the second half Bedford resisted a spirited comeback from Epsom conceding just one late try.

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  • Not wanting to take any chances he hit it and after 10 minutes and a spirited fight his prize was in the net!

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  • Trailing by 7 at the half, Coventry's spirited squad took the game by five points at the final hooter.

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  • By such a spirited death, she provided the reason for the Roman people to replace the monarchy with the republic.

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  • Like Spirited Away, the story is so nutty that you watch with slack-jawed amazement.

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  • It is, I think, one of the most individual and spirited in the entire pantheon that we have in St Paul's.

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  • Every song is a spirited affair and is further testament to her powerful and ingratiating onstage persona.

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  • Philharmonic choir gave a spirited interpretation of Messiah with the accompanying Orchestra da Camera, under the excellent direction of the eminent Nicholas Cleobury.

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  • His spirited rendition of " Like a Virgin " is classic.

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  • The latter were snapped up after Paul donned them and launched into an impromptu spirited rendition of an Elvis number.

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  • The set-up is perfect for normal and spirited riding.

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  • Another of the fest highlights, this mean spirited little Belgian shocker plays like a demented Little Red Riding Hood.

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  • Rebecca Maguire ran a very spirited leg to finish in a close 2nd position.

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  • They are high spirited, quick to react with a keen sense of hearing, which makes them good guard dogs.

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  • Peter was always one for making serious situations into a comedy - he never took life seriously, he was too *** free spirited.

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  • It even started with some suitably spirited singing, and drew many a laugh from the enthusiastic audience.

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  • It's a nasty, mean spirited, hateful movie.

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  • For me, the potential of occultism is less about becoming ' spiritual ', and more about becoming spirited.

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  • When Pamela is spirited away to a remote country estate where she is kept prisoner, the neighboring squire will not give her refuge.

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  • The minor characters of the honest old Huntley, whom the Scottish king obliges to bestow his daughter's hand upon Warbeck, and of her lover the faithful "Dalyell," are most effectively drawn; even "the men of judgment," the adventurers who surround the chief adventurer, are spirited sketches, and the Irishman among them has actually some humour; while the style of the play is, as befits a "Chronicle History," so clear and straightforward as to make it easy as well as interesting to read.

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  • Our only existing memorials of the great work are a number of small pen-studies of fighting men and horses, three splendid studies in red chalk at Budapest for heads in the principal group, one head at Oxford copied by a contemporary of the size of the original cartoon (above life); a tiny sketch, also at Oxford, by Raphael after the principal group; an engraving done by Zacchia of Lucca in 1558 not after the original but after a copy; a 16th-century Flemish drawing of the principal group, and another, splendidly spirited, by Rubens, both copies of copies; with Edelinck's fine engraving after the Rubens drawing.

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  • That was a man in hunting costume, and he rode a spirited and restive horse.

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  • All these and other singularities do not hinder the poem from being a very spirited one.

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  • Despite a strong and spirited fightback by the school in the second half, the OM 's defense held firm.

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  • England made a spirited defense of the trophy in 1970.

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  • It 's a nasty, mean spirited, hateful movie.

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  • Mozart was popularly supposed to dislike the flute as an instrument, but you would never know it from this spirited and tuneful piece.

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  • Superior pack power and weight advantage saw the Lions withstand an onslaught from the spirited French team who were pushing hard for penalties.

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  • This activity led to the selection of spirited breeding stock that also evidenced a willingness to cooperate with their human counterparts.

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  • Top Ten Terriers is a group of spirited breeds including West Highlands, Cairns, Airedales and Schnauzers.

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  • Uplifting and spirited, Life is Good t shirts are the perfect way to share your sunny side with the rest of the world.

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  • Simply snip off these loose ends and let the fabric begin to fray in its own free spirited fashion.

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  • Such pranks are simply mean spirited and not carried out in the sense of fun and silliness of the very best practical jokes.

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  • The amount of painting on a wine box can range anywhere from simple screen prints such as those offered by The Spirited Shipper to custom-designed art such as the wine boxes offered by Misguided Designs.

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  • It is often spirited in its music, and accompanied by plenty of singing, clapping and hollering.

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  • With the groom dressed in a crisp white linen suit and the bride turning heads in a saucy white gown, beach wedding hair is expected to be as free spirited and laidback as the event itself.

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  • Popular amongst urban men and free spirited women, the indie haircut is also known as the rocker cut.

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  • The hair is braided back and upwards (in the back) into a spirited ponytail.

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  • Nothing screams free spirited quite like a layered shag.

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  • Today, the area is a mixture of spirited Italian cafes, green spaces, and eclectic stores.

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  • You're layering it over your basics, so it helps to break things up with a fun, spirited hue.

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  • Some are funky and spirited, others calm and understated.

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  • It's no surprise that the brand has enjoyed decades of success with its spirited collection of attire and accessories.

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  • With their spirited motto, colorful fabrics and whimsical designs, Life is Good Tote Bags are feel-good, fun fashion accessories.

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  • Her designs suggest a unique combination of style and charm, and are buoyed by a rainbow of colors that can only be described as spirited and even optimistic.

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  • These animals can get a little restless if they stay in one spot for too long because they are free spirited and like to roam around searching for their next adventure.

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  • However, it isn't all bad news about Aries pets; they are very free spirited, full of energy and loving toward their owners.

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  • A spirited debate is a favored activity among Aries; challenge his opinion with an intelligent argument.

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  • Tinkerbell is the mischievous side kick of the spirited and forever young boy who won't grow up, Peter.

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  • After looking at the photos for yourself, you might want to join in the spirited debate.

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  • They're bright, cheerful and spirited, and no one can deny their appeal from a fashion standpoint.

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  • Stacey Banning - Stacey arrived a spirited teenager and grew into a feisty woman.

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  • While Lucci's dark hair and olive skin held her back from landing other roles, they helped her get the part of Erica as the casting team were looking for someone with a dark look to match her spirited character.

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  • While Lucci's dark hair and olive skin held her back from landing other roles, it helped her get the part of Erica, as they were looking for someone with a dark look to match her spirited character.

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  • At night, a soft yellow nightlight provides comfort before waking the child to lights, sounds and spirited animations.

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  • On May 18, 1996, Jim Carrey joins the Spartan squad as Lochmiel, a super spirited foreign exchange student.

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  • Whichever activities you choose, remember that the goal is to bring the students closer together in fun and spirited support of your team.

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  • Points are awarded throughout the week and the "most spirited" class can earn free concessions at "the big game".

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  • Other sprays can incorporate your team colors into your hair for a spirited look.

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  • Beautiful he was, but he also looked high spirited.

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  • The first arrow planted itself firmly in the rump of Sirian's spirited grey.

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  • I like my fillies spirited.

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  • In August 1771 Governor Tryon was succeeded by Governor Josiah Martin, who was soon engaged in spirited controversies with the assembly on questions pertaining to taxes, the southern boundary, and the attachment of property belonging to nonresidents.

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  • Leases for a term of years, however, were not uncommon; but the want of capital rendered it impossible for the tenantry to attempt any spirited improvements.

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  • He showed courage on the field of battle, both in Italy and Spain, during the War of the Spanish Succession, and was flattered by his courtiers with the title of El Animoso, or the spirited.

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  • In an attempt to break out in February 1815 Decatur's flagship the "President" was cut off and after a spirited fight forced to surrender to a superior force.

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  • During the troubles of the 15th century the authorities had seen the necessity of paying more attention to the security of the gates and walls of the city, and when Thomas Nevill, son of William, Lord Fauconberg, made his attack upon London in 1471 he experienced a spirited resistance.

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  • We do not even know the date of the spirited terra-cotta reliefs discovered by Loftus and Rawlinson.

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  • His few lyrics were spirited ballads of adventure, inspired by an exalted patriotism - "The Revenge" (1878), "The Defence of Lucknow" (1879) - but he reprinted and finally published his old suppressed poem, The Lover's Tale, and a little play of his, The Falcon, versified out of Boccaccio, was produced by the Kendals at their theatre in the last days of 1879.

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  • There, also, is the refined and spirited figure of "Cimabue" in mosaic. In Lyndhurst church are mural decorations to the memory of Mr Pepys Cockerell, illustrating "The Parable of the Wise and Foolish Virgins."

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  • His political works, in which the expression is often splendidly eloquent, spirited and dignified, are for the most part exceedingly rhetorical in style, while his philosophical essays were undertaken with the chief object of displaying his eloquence, and no characteristic renders writings less readable for posterity.

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  • Many fled to Africa, where the more spirited among them took to piracy at Algiers and other ports.

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  • On his march to Leipzig he passed through Dresden, where he issued his spirited Aufruf an die Sachsen, in which he called upon his countrymen to rise against their oppressors.

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  • Franklin's superior management of the paper, his new type, " some spirited remarks " on the controversy between the Massachusetts assembly and Governor Burnet, brought his paper into immediate notice, and his success both as a printer and as a journalist was assured and complete.

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  • Mr Percy Fitzgerald's Life (2 vols., 1868; new edition, 1899) is full and spirited, and has been reprinted, with additions, among Sir Theodore Martin's Monographs (1906).

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  • The "Sketch of the History of Poland" (Dzieje Polskie w zarysie) by Michael Bobrzynski, born in 1849 in Cracow (professor of Polish and German law), is a very spirited work, and has given rise to a great deal of controversy on account of the opposition of many of its views to those of the school of Lelewel.

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  • In the autumn, a spirited attempt was made by the Arkansas Confederates to.

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  • For several years the Anti-Federalists or Republicans had contended that the administration at Washington had been exercising powers not warranted by the constitution, and when Congress had passed the alien and sedition laws the leaders of that party seized upon the event as a proper occasion for a spirited public protest which took shape principally in resolutions passed by the legislatures of Kentucky and Virginia.

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  • At the time of his resignation in 1836 he was foreign minister, and, as usual, wished for a spirited policy in Spain, which he could not carry out.

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  • An isolated attack on Charleston, South Carolina, had been made by Sir Henry Clinton and Sir Peter Parker as early as June 1776, but this was foiled by the spirited resistance of General William Moultrie; after 1778 the southern attempts, stimulated in part by the activity of the French in the West Indies, were vigorously sustained.

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  • The book was a spirited defence of poetry and of the possibilities of the French language; it was also a declaration of war on those writers who held less heroic views.

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  • Happiness in this world consists proximately in virtue as a harmony between the three parts, rational, spirited and appetitive, of our souls, and ultimately in living according to the form of the good; but there is a far higher happiness, when the immortal soul, divesting itself of body and passions and senses, rises from earth to heaven and contemplates pure forms by pure reason.

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  • In 1649 it was captured by Cromwell, after a short though spirited defence; and nearly every individual within its walls, without distinction of age or sex, was put to the sword.

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  • The speech For Mantitheus (39 2 B.C.) is a graceful and animated portrait of a young Athenian lirirebs, making a spirited defence of his honour against the charge of disloyalty.

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  • Though written many years afterwards and drawn from other sources, it is a spirited account of the barons' war.

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  • The spirited translation of the epic of Reinecke Fuchs (1794) he took up as a relief and an antidote to the social disruption of the time.

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  • The middle of the 19th century saw quite a spirited controversy over Clement XIV.; St Priest, in his Hist.

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  • These traits are most clearly marked in Judaism; but, after the Achaemenid period, they are common to all Oriental creeds, though our information as to most is scanty in the extreme, In this competition of religions that of Iran played a most spirited part.

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  • Clement Marot, in the 16th century, first made the epistle popular in France, with his brief and spirited specimens.

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  • Posidonius, unable to explain the emotions as " judgments " or the effects of judgments, postulated, like Plato, an irrational principle (including a concupiscent and a spirited element) to account for them, although he subordinated all these as faculties to the one substance of the soul lodged in the heart.

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  • His Amphitryons is a free imitation of the Latin, yet thoroughly national in spirit and cast in the popular redondilha; the dialogue is spirited, the situations comic. King Seleucus derives from Plutarch and has a prose prologue of real interest for the history of the stage, while Filodemo is a clever tragi-comedy in verse with prose dialogues interspersed.

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  • To this Carteret made a spirited reply, and on the 30th of April a detachment of soldiers dragged the governor of East Jersey from his bed and carried him prisoner to New York.

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  • Each sketch followed the spirited misfits Craig and Arianna as they cheered at one event after another.

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  • Whether she is the elegant type that never has hair out of place, the free spirited type whose clothes never match or is somewhere in between, understanding your mother's personality is the key to making the right gift choices.

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  • That's why it's wise to purchase lingerie online when you're looking for something a bit more free spirited than the traditional bra styles.

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  • A large part of the show is an ensemble musical where the whole cast gets together and performs spirited numbers as a part of the glee club.

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  • The offspring of the unholy union, the baby Connor (fully human, no less!) was kidnapped and spirited away to a demon dimension, returning in a short time as an angry, conflicted young man, with some impressive slaying moves of his own.

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  • A playful, spirited fragrance, Absolutely Irresistible Givenchy blends notes of mandarin, jasmine and red berries.

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  • The interior of the house was romantically lit by candles, and the soft electronica music and sounds of talk added to the dark, spirited ambiance.

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  • The spirited reliefs of the frieze represent the punishment of the Tyrrhenian pirates by Dionysus and their transformation into dolphins.

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  • William's account of his impressions is spirited and interesting.

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  • He was the chief of the ecclesiastical statesmen who belonged to the school of Morton, believed in frequent parliaments, and opposed the spirited foreign policy which laymen like Surrey are supposed to have advocated.

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  • The spirited overthrow of the Hyksos ushered in the glories in arms and arts which marked the New Empire.

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  • Another MS. of the same century has a picture - crude, but spirited - which brings us into close touch with the existing game.

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  • A spirited description of the glories of the exilarch is given in D'Israeli's novel Alroy.

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  • A British fleet under Nelson, sent into the Mediterranean in May 1798 primarily for their defence, checkmated the designs of Bonaparte in Egypt, and then, returning to Naples, encouraged that court to adopt a spirited policy.

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