animated

• What can be drearier than when a plain matter-of-fact writer attempts to be animated, and tries to make his characters live by the easy but futile expedient of writing about them in the present tense? —  Obiter Dicta Second Series
• Our conversation was not animated, and I, for my part, felt there would be a kind of hypocrisy in my trying to make myself agreeable to Mrs. Ambient I didn't dislike her--I rather admired her; but I was aware that I differed from her inexpressibly. —  The Author Of Beltraffio
• On Sundays the scene is more animated, and then the President, with his body-guard of lancers, and attendants in scarlet livery, is seen to dash into the Pasйo, ride down and return through the Alameda, among whose trees and fountains the Sabbath crowds most do congregate One morning when all was quiet in this place of display, I rode down the street of San Francisco, and turned up the Pasйo between the prison of the Acordado and the bronze horse. —  Mexico and its Religion With Incidents of Travel in That Country During Parts of the Years 1851-52-53-54, and Historical Notices of Events Connected With Places Visited
• Before this figure, twice transformed into stone, and yet so inimitably animated--before this line of demarkation of all human suffering, the most callous beholder is dissolved in tears STATUE OF THE FIGHTING GLADIATOR The famous antique statue of the Fighting Gladiator, which now adorns the Louvre, was executed by Agasias, a Greek sculptor of Ephesus, who flourished about B. C. 450. —  Anecdotes of Painters, Engravers, Sculptors and Architects, and Curiosities of Art, (Vol. 2 of 3)
• The slumbering multitude became animated, the tambourines sounded, songs and cries arose; the hour of the sacrifice had come. —  Around the World in 80 Days

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