1 Like most shy men he greatly admired airy, vivacious, always-at-ease girls like Scarlett.
2 She's just high spirited and vivacious.
3 At supper Melanie surprised them all by forcing herself out of her timidity and being almost vivacious.
4 If you yourself can withstand three cheers at beholding these vivacious fish, then heaven help ye; the spirit of godly gamesomeness is not in ye.
5 Though truly vivacious, tumultuous, ostentatious little Flask would now and then stamp with impatience; but not one added heave did he thereby give to the negro's lordly chest.
Moby Dick By Herman MelvilleContext Highlight In CHAPTER 48. The First Lowering. 6 Augustine, with his blue eyes and golden hair, his ethereally flexible form and vivacious features; and Alfred, dark-eyed, with haughty Roman profile, firmly-knit limbs, and decided bearing.
7 Snowball was a more vivacious pig than Napoleon, quicker in speech and more inventive, but was not considered to have the same depth of character.
8 They were merely indulging in the ordinary vivacious chat of relatives who have long been parted in person though not in soul.
Return of the Native By Thomas HardyContext Highlight In BOOK 2: 3 How a Little Sound Produced a Great Dream 9 Eustacia's manner was as a rule of a slumberous sort, her passions being of the massive rather than the vivacious kind.
Return of the Native By Thomas HardyContext Highlight In BOOK 2: 4 Eustacia Is Led on to an Adventure 10 To Hester's eye, the Reverend Mr. Dimmesdale exhibited no symptom of positive and vivacious suffering, except that, as little Pearl had remarked, he kept his hand over his heart.
The Scarlet Letter By Nathaniel HawthorneContext Highlight In XVI. A FOREST WALK 11 He had improved his own spirits, no less than Mrs. Gummidge's, for they were again at their usual flow, and he was full of vivacious conversation as we went along.
David Copperfield By Charles DickensContext Highlight In CHAPTER 22. SOME OLD SCENES, AND SOME NEW PEOPLE 12 He was a boisterous, pallid, nimble, wide-awake, jeering, lad, with a vivacious but sickly air.
Les Misérables 3 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XIII—LITTLE GAVROCHE 13 It was a boy less than ten years of age, ragged, very small, yellow, with an odd phiz, a vivacious eye, an enormous amount of hair drenched with rain, and wearing a contented air.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 12: CHAPTER II—PRELIMINARY GAYETIES 14 Widows could never chatter vivaciously or laugh aloud.
15 But Gavroche, who was of the wagtail species, and who skipped vivaciously from one gesture to another, had just picked up a stone.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 15: CHAPTER II—THE STREET URCHIN AN ENEMY OF LIGHT