spry

• “I say, mam, ef you comes so late you can't have no vittles, – 'cause I'm 'bleeged fer ter git things ready fer de doctors' mazin 'spry arter you nusses and folks is done.”

  Hospital Sketches

• “Dan Hart, the man in charge of the group, is described as a spry”

  RGJ.com - Latest News

• “Oh lord, Lance, is this the cut off for geezer? am I going to have to start calling myself "spry" now?”

  Rush Limbaugh tries to horn in on my vacation

• “Oh lord – next he's going to start bragging about how "spry" he is”

  McCain defends his 'bearings'

• “If Senator McCain is so sensitive about his age then why are he and his surrogates constantly telling us how "spry" and "energetic" he is.”

  McCain camp accuses Obama of making age an issue

• “Also ... why is it you only hear really really old people described as "spry"?”

  Your Right Hand Thief

• “I've been called "spry," because I've been willing to wage budget fights and otherwise shake up politics as usual in my state's capital city.”

  The Wall Street Journal: The Potomac Primary

• “For though this veteran more than doubled the years of the boy ranchers, he was almost as "spry" as any of them.”

  The Boy Ranchers at Spur Creek or Fighting the Sheep Herders

• “Oh, my back, and oh, my bones!" murmured Aunt Alvirah Boggs, who was not long out of a sick bed herself and would never again be as "spry" as she once had been.”

  Ruth Fielding Down East Or, The Hermit of Beach Plum Point

• “The latter, at a wooding station, thinking that the man was not sufficiently "spry," administered a palthogue, which not meeting the approbation of the Mejicano, that worthy immediately drew his knife and challenged the aggressor.”

  Wild Life in the Rocky Mountains

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