Use lively in a sentence
Sentences ending with lively
- Then I lampooned two prominent citizens outrageously--not because they had done anything to deserve, but merely because I thought it was my duty to make the paper lively. [5]
- We have learned that that is not the best game; the best game is when you not only depend on the carom, but in going to the cushion before you carom; that is to say, including the whole table, and making things lively. [4]
- But Miss Jinny, she make it lively. [9]
- It was already past midnight, the hour when Karataev was usually free of his fever and particularly lively. [2]
- Salaries cost pretty lively. [5]
- I darted for it, threw myself upon it, and then there was a state of things and lively! [5]
- I understand they're goin' to buck 'em for a franchise in the next Legislature, just to make it lively. [9]
- It has good fun in it, and several characters, and is lively. [5]
- He can sit down quietly in a town that is growing rapidly; but if it stands still, he is impelled to move his rocking-chair to one more lively. [4]
- There is this disadvantage about having a game preserve attached to your garden: it makes life too lively. [4]
Short sentences using lively
- It was lively work. [5]
- Lively, now, lively, men! [5]
- This made a lively dinner. [4]
- Lively, now! [5]
More example sentences with the word lively in them
- Mr. Monroe was young, witty, lively, popular with people he met. [9]
- The letter was written in a very lively and exceedingly familiar vein. [6]
- Freedom is lost with too much responsibility and seriousness, and the truth is more likely to be struck out in a lively play of assertion and retort than when all the words and sentiments are weighed. [4]
- Contrast these reports with the lively and faithful pictures of the French Assembly which are served to the Paris papers. [4]
- Tom spoke out, with lively apprehension-- "We be going to the dogs, 'tis plain. [5]
- He was a willing, lively little waiter, with his moony face on the top of his head; and he jumped round in the rain like a parching pea, rolling his head about in the funniest manner. [4]
- Among them many who have tasted the college prison's dreary hospitality was a lively young fellow from one of the Southern states of America, whose first year's experience of German university life was rather peculiar. [5]
- There are Southerners who declare that it is too hot in summer, and that the complete circuit of mountains shuts out any lively movement of air. [4]
- It was lively while it lasted," she added, with a sigh: "I've struck the down trail. [9]
- The lively capital which once reflected the wit and fashion of Europe has fallen into decay. [9]
- An alarming symptom was his preference for the warmth of a furnace-register to the lively sparkle of the open woodfire. [4]
- The young man was absent, but the Dukes and Countesses and Princes went over the premises with us as leisurely as was the case at the Emperor's, and conversation continued as lively as ever. [5]
- Here, before her, was a nobler display, and yet her lively imagination which often, sometimes indeed against her will, gave shape to her formless thoughts--called up the image of the beautiful youth surrounded by the glowing glory which still painted the horizon. [10]
- Yes, Xanthe felt very sorrowful, yet everything that surrounded her was so bright, and at her home laughter was rarely silent, while her own often rang out no less merrily than that of lively Chloris and dark-skinned Dorippe. [10]
- He was a very lively young fellow who seemed to know everybody, and he desired to know if we would walk about a little before being shown to the boxes reserved for us. [9]
- Charley Langdon, Jack Van Nostrand, Dan and I, (all Quaker City night-hawks,) had a blow-out at Dan's' house and a lively talk over old times. [5]
- It is lively up here now. [5]
- He was just touching up the final proposition, when his granddaughter, Letty, once before referred to, came into the room with her smiling face and lively movement. [6]
- Then the conversation took a lively turn, but duty was not forgotten, for at the end of half an hour the captain rose to survey the horizon himself and urge the sentinels to vigilant watchfulness. [10]
- Have I got to stand another month of this torpidity before I can begin to browse among the lively capitals of Europe? [5]
- It was calculated to lend a lively interest to the narration, and would be invaluable as an advertisement of the adventure. [4]
- The world seems to experience a lively pleasure in holding a man to his early follies. [4]
- If I were to describe Ravenna, I should say that it is as flat as Holland and as lively as New London. [4]
- It was lively times, for a while, digging out. [5]
- This remark was thought by some of us to have a hidden personal application, and to afford a fair opening for a lively rejoinder, if the Koh-i-noor had been so disposed. [6]
- By one of those odd coincidents which sometimes start one to thinking, the Celebrity was the subject of a lively discussion when I reached the table that evening. [9]
- A lively scene, those dances at the old Stadt House, but one I love best to recall with a presence that endeared it to me. [9]
- On the lawn there are twenty robins, lively, noisy, worm-seeking. [4]
- And Honora, following their glances, beheld the two ladies, in the negligee referred to above, with their elbows on the railing of the upper hall and their faces between their hands, engaged in a lively exchange of compliments with the gentlemen. [9]
- At high noon the scene is very lively, and even picturesque, for the ladies here dress for bathing with an intention of pleasing. [4]
- One portion of the platz is now a lively and picturesque forest of evergreens, an extensive thicket of large and small trees, many of them trimmed with colored and gilt strips of paper. [4]
- The birds open the morning with a lively chorus. [4]
- We fancied that the lively movement in the streets had an air of unreality. [4]
- The perspectives of the cross-streets toward the river were very lively, with their turmoil of trucks and cars and carts and hacks and foot passengers, ending in the chimneys and masts of shipping, and final gleams of dancing water. [8]
- Thanks to Denisov the conversation at table soon became general and lively, and she did not talk to her husband. [2]
- He was heavier than I, though not so tall; and he parried my first blow and my second, and many more; having lively work of it, however, for I hit him as often as I was able. [9]
- I had to telegraph and countermand the order for special sleeping car; and in fact we all had to fly around in a lively way and undo the patient preparations of weeks--rehabilitate the dismantled house, unpack the trunks, and so on. [5]
- Breakfast in Fillmore Street, never a lively meal, was more dismal than usual that morning, eaten to the accompaniment of slopping water from the roofs on the pavement of the passage. [9]
- It is by straws we are enabled to tell which way the wind is blowing, and I first noticed his partiality for Miss Trevor from the absence of the lively conflicts she was wont to have with Farrar. [9]
- She had grown stouter and broader, so that it was difficult to recognize in this robust, motherly woman the slim, lively Natasha of former days. [2]
- The prince stood still; his lively glittering eyes from under their thick, bushy eyebrows sternly scanned all present and rested on the little princess. [2]
- The german was still "on" at the hotel when we ascended to our chamber, satisfied that Asheville was a lively town. [4]
- Musicians had been stationed at the corners to play lively airs; the Beggars' song mingled with the pipes and trumpets and the cheers of enthusiastic men. [10]
- He has speculated some in cholera and railroads, and has taken almost a lively interest in infernal machines and patent medicines. [5]
- Full of curiosity, she smoothed out the papyrus with the ivory stick, and her attention was soon engaged by the lively conversation between the vintner and his Phoenician guest. [10]
- As has been seen, it had become lively once more on the night of the Long Sitting. [5]
- If you ever saw a crow with a king-bird after him, you will get an image of a dull speaker and a lively listener. [6]
- A lively comment!--he said.--But Rome, in her great founder, sucked the blood of empire out of the dugs of a brute, Sir! [6]
- When the laugh rose around Roxy and her saucy beau, several looked in that direction with an anxious expression, as if something had happened, a lady fainted, for instance, or a couple of lively fellows come to high words. [6]
- They could not resist the lively wiggle of the worm before their very noses, and we lifted them out one after an other, gently, and very much as if we were hooking them out of a barrel, until we had a handsome string. [4]
- The hour passed quickly away in lively talk, and when it was ended, the lonesome and neglected Wilson was richer by two friends than he had been when it began. [5]
- His letters to Prince Dolgorouki and to Mademoiselle Antoinette give a most lively and entertaining picture of his residence and travels in Spain. [4]
- He had a pole ten feet long, with a crook in the end of it, and occasionally a goose would branch out from the flock and make a lively break around the corner, with wings half lifted and neck stretched to its utmost. [5]
- It was a pleasant life they led in the village, which was lively enough at this season. [6]
- There were twenty people in the set, and the dance was very lively and complicated. [5]
- The rink band opposite kept up a lively competition, grinding out go-round music, imparting, if one may say so, a glamour to existence. [4]
- What a piece of work it would make among the lively youths of the village, to be sure! [6]
- The principal event of those holidays was a play given in the old Hambleton house (which later became the Boyne Club), under the direction of the lively and talented Mrs. Watling. [9]
- This sudden disclosure of the young woman's identity had upon Hodder a certain electric effect, and with it came a realization of the extent to which--from behind the scenes, so to speak--she had gradually aroused him to a lively speculation. [9]
- The heroic sacrifice of it does not diminish, as it should not, in our estimation, and he helps us to keep glowing a lively sense of it. [4]
- With lively sensations of curiosity and excitement, tempered by a certain anxiety as to my ability to match wits with the Spider, I made my way to his "lair" over Monahan's saloon, situated in a district that was anything but respectable. [9]
- I was fond of both of them, especially my lively aunt, who was always ready for a joke, and my affection was returned. [10]
- I made the observation that the ladies were ten times as lively as the gentlemen. [8]
- His sympathies did not seem so lively as the Doctor could have wished. [6]
- His lively, but not exalted fancy, wherever he gave it play, presented to the eye of his soul the image of his father and of an elder brother who had died early, always in the same spot, and almost tangibly distinct. [10]
- The illustrious host moved about from place to place, and helped to destroy the provisions and keep the conversation lively, and the Grand Duchess talked with the verandah parties and such as had satisfied their appetites and straggled out from the reception room. [5]
- For the Caput mortuum (or deadhead, in vulgar phrase) is apt to be furnished with a Venter vivus, or, as we may say, a lively appetite. [6]
- She moved forward more swiftly to the time of the lively dancing tune which the city pipers were playing. [10]
- Some of my more lively remarks called out very sharp animadversion. [6]
- It was a merry ride, for on the way they met numerous travellers, who were going through the hamlet of Rappolts to the "three castles on the mountain" and saluted the old nobleman with lively songs. [10]
- Honora found herself, mercifully, outside the circle: for such was the lively character of the banter that a considerable adroitness was necessary to obtain, between the talk and--laughter, the ear of the company. [9]
- It appeared to me that one touched the primitive and idyllic side of life: lively, sturdy, and simple, with nature about us at once benignant and austere. [11]
- What most impressed me in these hasty notes was that the woman was so little interested in the persons and places which in the old days she expressed such a lively desire to see. [4]
- The moment Mrs. Mavick got her husband alone she showed a lively solicitude about his health. [4]
- The advent of Master Langdon to Pigwacket Centre created a much more lively sensation than had attended that of either of his predecessors. [6]
- They are largely made up of sober reflections, and appeared to me to require some lively human interest to save them from wearisome didactic dulness. [6]
- The two drinks made him very merry--almost idiotically so, and he began to take a most lively and prominent part in the proceedings, particularly in the music and catcalls and side remarks. [5]
- The scene is lively, is picturesque, and smells like a police court. [5]
- It was a lively young animal enough, and was easily roused to a pretty fast pace. [6]
- Her vigorous and lively temperament rendered her little apt to dream, or even meditate, in broad daylight; but the heat and the recent excitement had overwrought her and she felt into a drowsy reverie. [10]
- There was a lively scene in the hotel corridor, the spacious office with its long counters and post-office, when the noon mail was opened and the letters called out. [4]
- Mr. Warner, the lively parson with my Lord March, desired to press my hand, declaring that he had won a dozen of port upon me, which he had set his best cassock against. [9]
- I want good lively ones, you understand, that will stir things up. [9]
- She was a lively little woman with sparkling eyes, whom no one could pass by without noticing. [10]
- It was not lively enough for a pleasure trip; but if we had only had a corpse it would have made a noble funeral excursion. [5]
- She looked wonderfully lively and rosy, for the weather was getting keen and the frosts had begun to bite. [6]
- The brisk, lively little creature fell down powerless when ever it tried to stand, and when she took it up to nurse it comfortably in her lap, it whined pitifully, and looked up at her sorrowfully, and as if complaining to her. [10]
- I passed the line around one of them right on the edge of the cut bank, but there was a stiff current, and the raft come booming down so lively she tore it out by the roots and away she went. [5]
- The sensibilities are less keen, the intelligence is less lively, as we might expect under the influence of that narcotic which Nature administers. [6]
- It was a land where sunshine travelled, and in the sun the bright, tuneful birds made lively the responsive world. [11]
- The home of Jane Withersteen stood in a circle of cottonwoods, and was a flat, long, red-stone structure with a covered court in the center through which flowed a lively stream of amber-colored water. [13]
- His Lordship, be it remarked in passing, was as lively a poet and scholar as can well be imagined. [9]
- So I think it more for a lively young fellow to be ready to play nurse than for one of those useful but forlorn martyrs who have taken a spite against themselves and love to gratify it by fasting and watching. [6]
- As Jasmine gazed into the gloom, spattered with a delicate radiance which did not pierce the shadows, but only made lively the darkness, she was suddenly conscious of the dull regular thud of horses' hoofs upon the veld. [11]
- Nearly all the inhabitants, young and old, joined us in lively procession, up the winding road of three quarters of a mile, to the town. [4]
- In her lively imagination she had witnessed the ghastly act to which he--as she had certainly believed, even when she had replied to his question--had been forced by fate. [10]
- For my part, I used to like a grindstone that "wabbled" a good deal on its axis, for when I turned it fast, it put the grinder on a lively lookout for cutting his hands, and entirely satisfied his desire that I should "turn faster. [4]
- There is also, I think, a graphic rendering of situations, and a lively talent for describing whatever is visible and tangible--what the eye meets on the surface of things. [14]
- At the great hop fields they lodge all together in big barracks, and they make lively for the time whatever farmhouse they occupy. [4]
- The satisfaction of his hunger and the wine rendered the captain still more lively and he chatted incessantly all through dinner. [2]
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