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She, peering, saw with joy both lights and a well-dressed man and woman; and, as the carriage stopped, she sprang out with alacrity,
The Lord of the Sea 1906
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Gordon, the finest colt perhaps you ever laid your eyes on; and this morning as I was a movin 'about with alacrity,
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"Well it's not so much the garden," said Mrs. Alexander with alacrity,
All on the Irish Shore Irish Sketches Martin Ross 1903
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He was characterized by a certain simple alacrity,
Robert Falconer George MacDonald 1864
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Beguiling them of their essences, which with tireless alacrity,
Man of Uz, and Other Poems Lydia Howard Sigourney 1828
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