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She studied her wide gray eyes that were so very gray, that were always alive with light and vivacities, where, in the surface and depths, always swam thoughts unuttered, thoughts that sank down and dissolved to give place to other thoughts.

CHAPTER XVIII 2010

I expected a little hint or two from him on my past vivacities; but not

Sir Charles Grandison 2006

With what pungent vivacities — what an impetus of mutiny — what

Villette 2003

One of the many histrionic vivacities in Harold Bloom's book is its title.

The Sad Captain of Criticism Donoghue, Denis 1989

"Your line of conduct lies before you ready traced out," I added; "be impassioned with due restraint, calm with some warmth, good, kind, tender; but at the same time let her have a glimpse of the vivacities of an ardent affection and the attractive aspect of a robust temperament."

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When he used to unsling his minstrel harp in the wilds of California or on the sunrise mountains of the Orient, there were plenty of false notes, plenty of youthful vivacities that overbore the strings and were heard as a sudden crack, and, withal, a good deal of young frank fire.

Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 11, No. 27, June, 1873 Various

Bearing this in mind, the reader will perhaps excuse certain small vivacities, sallies that meet fools with their folly, masking the main attack.

Preface 1916

She studied her wide gray eyes that were so very gray, that were always alive with light and vivacities, where, in the surface and depths, always swam thoughts unuttered, thoughts that sank down and dissolved to give place to other thoughts.

Chapter 18 1913

These superficial vivacities were the slighter play of a self-consciousness which in its deeper recesses was steadily gathering power, richness, and assurance.

Robert Browning Herford, C H 1905

My cousin's vivacities began to languish and the silence seemed to shape itself into a receptacle for my verdict.

The Rembrandt 1900