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  • High-spirited spectators behind police barricades joined in with impromptu dancing as music pounded from massive loudspeakers aboard floats rumbling through the Crown Heights neighborhood, which also is home to the world headquarters of the Lubavitch Orthodox Jewish community.

    Violence amid revelry at N.Y. West Indian Day Parade 2011

  • High-spirited spectators behind police barricades joined in with impromptu dancing as music pounded from massive loudspeakers aboard floats rumbling through the Crown Heights neighborhood, which also is home to the world headquarters of the Lubavitch Orthodox Jewish community.

    Violence amid revelry at N.Y. West Indian Day Parade 2011

  • High-spirited Spurlock provides a guided journey through the world of docs, highlighting its various styles and subjects.

    Brad Balfour: Q&A: Morgan Spurlock Celebrates on Current TV 50 Greatest Documentaries Brad Balfour 2011

  • High-spirited, and disappointed in some follies which that Tom Hillary has put into his head.

    The Surgeon's Daughter 2008

  • High-spirited husbands were the easiest to manage.

    To-morrow, by Joseph Conrad 2004

  • High-spirited, flown with words, Sidney seized his pen too carelessly.

    The Common Reader, Second Series 2004

  • High-spirited young warriors gamed and sported outside the city walls; inside, a stern and austere martial order prevailed.

    Fiddler Fair Lackey, Mercedes 1998

  • High-spirited, self-willed, and self-absorbed though not selfish, she had struggled long against those cords of love which were drawing her out of the pathway of error and death.

    Amos Huntingdon T.P. Wilson

  • High-spirited and intensely amusing, it seemed to promise many more -- for into almost old age he had carried the imagination and energy in which as a very young man we saw his resemblance to the youthful Dickens.

    Gilbert Keith Chesterton Maisie Ward 1932

  • High-spirited children want tact in dealing with them, that is all.

    Back to Billabong Mary Grant Bruce 1918

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