energetic

• The Cuban colored people seem to be exceptionally intelligent and energetic, and have a high reputation as brave soldiers. —  Slavery and Four Years of War, Vol. 1-2 A Political History of Slavery in the United States Together With a Narrative of the Campaigns and Battles of the Civil War In Which the Author Took Part: 1861-1865
• The living answers to a shock from without; the most lively gives the most energetic, the torpid or dying the feeblest, and the dead no answer at all. —  Sir Jagadis Chunder Bose His Life and Speeches
• In fact for over a century the town hardly raised its number of population, so energetic was the youth it produced As happens with lamentable frequency, when Weymouth ceased to be naughty she also ceased to be interesting. —  The Old Coast Road From Boston to Plymouth
• Their protests were energetic, and from protests they passed to acts. —  Which? or, Between Two Women
• Here am I--so powerful and energetic, and so well able to spin round-- checked, and hindered, and harassed by wheels and pinions and levers, some going this way, and some going that way, all at sixes and sevens, and all for no good end that I can see, buried as I am in this dark hole and scarcely allowed to move at all?' —  Philosopher Jack

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