VIVACITY in a Sentence

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22 example sentences for VIVACITY, such as:
1. At the moment when the Bishop entered, Madame Magloire was talking with considerable vivacity.
2. It was not that these two loving mentors deplored Scarlett's high spirits, vivacity and charm.
3. He went to this table with a sort of vivacity, took a key from his pocket, and opened the valise.
4. There was color, light, and life in the boy's face now, vivacity in his manner, and genuine merriment in his laugh.
5. There was the same candour, the same vivacity, but it was allied to an expression more full of sensibility and intellect.
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Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
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 Meanings and Examples of VIVACITY
vivacity
 n.  characterized by high spirits and animation
Classic Sentence: (18 in 2 pages)
1  There was the same candour, the same vivacity, but it was allied to an expression more full of sensibility and intellect.
Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 7
2  Such were some of the thoughts that now stirred in Hester's mind, with as much vivacity of impression as if they had actually been whispered into her ear.
The Scarlet Letter By Nathaniel Hawthorne
Context  Highlight   In XV. HESTER AND PEARL
3  It indicated the restless vivacity of her spirit, which to-day was doubly indefatigable in its tip-toe dance, because it was played upon and vibrated with her mother's disquietude.
The Scarlet Letter By Nathaniel Hawthorne
Context  Highlight   In XXII. THE PROCESSION
4  There was a stage, that evening, when she spoke collectedly of what had happened, though with a certain terrible vivacity.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In Chapter XLIX
5  Not that Trabb's boy was of a malignant nature, but that he had too much spare vivacity, and that it was in his constitution to want variety and excitement at anybody's expense.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In Chapter LIII
6  At the moment when the Bishop entered, Madame Magloire was talking with considerable vivacity.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER II—PRUDENCE COUNSELLED TO WISDOM.
7  In a twinkling, with all the vivacity of an alert old woman, Madame Magloire had rushed to the oratory, entered the alcove, and returned to the Bishop.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER XII—THE BISHOP WORKS
8  His eyes acquired some vivacity when they rested on his books, and he smiled when he gazed at the Diogenes Laertius, which was a unique copy.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 9: CHAPTER III—M. MABEUF
9  He went to this table with a sort of vivacity, took a key from his pocket, and opened the valise.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 6: CHAPTER III—THE INSEPARABLE
10  She seized his hands with vivacity, and raising them to her face with an irresistible movement, she pressed them against her neck beneath her chin, which is a gesture of profound tenderness.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 8: CHAPTER I—THE LOWER CHAMBER
11  It was not that these two loving mentors deplored Scarlett's high spirits, vivacity and charm.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER III
12  Melanie met them halfway, surprising Scarlett with her unexpected vivacity as she told of trials at Tara, making light of hardships.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXIX
13  But while now upon so wide a field thus variously accomplished and with such liveliness of expertness in him, too; all this would seem to argue some uncommon vivacity of intelligence.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 107. The Carpenter.
14  There was color, light, and life in the boy's face now, vivacity in his manner, and genuine merriment in his laugh.
Little Women By Louisa May Alcott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER FIVE
15  And now I looked much better than I did when Bessie saw me; I had more colour and more flesh, more life, more vivacity, because I had brighter hopes and keener enjoyments.
Jane Eyre By Charlotte Bronte
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XVI
Example Sentence:
1  But he shares Mary's apathetic and listless look: he seems to have more length of limb than vivacity of blood or vigour of brain.
2  But he shares Mary's apathetic and listless look: he seems to have more length of limb than vivacity of blood or vigor of brain.
3  And then she would pout like a disappointed child; a pensive cloud would soften her radiant vivacity; she would withdraw her hand hastily from his, and turn in transient petulance from his aspect, at once so heroic and so martyr-like.
4  "It is all very well for the present," said he; "but seriously, I trust that when the first flush of vivacity is over, you will look a little higher than domestic endearments and household joys."