Sentence Examples

1. Her kittens were quite lively, and so far evinced not the slightest sign of any uneasiness whatever.
2. I say, too, that when a painter desires to become famous in his art he endeavours to copy the originals of the rarest painters that he knows and the same rule holds good for all the most important crafts and callings that serve to adorn a state thus must he who would be esteemed prudent and patient imitate Ulysses, in whose person and labours Homer presents to us a lively picture of prudence and patience as Virgil, too, shows us in the person of Æneas the virtue of a pious son and the sagacity of a brave and skilful captain not representing or describing them as they were, but as they ought to be, so as to leave the example of their virtues to posterity.
3. The air was lively with the chirruping of small birds, cheerful after the rain.
4. In short, then, he remained at home fifteen days very quietly without showing any signs of a desire to take up with his former delusions, and during this time he held lively discussions with his two gossips, the curate and the barber, on the point he maintained, that knights-errant were what the world stood most in need of, and that in him was to be accomplished the revival of knight-errantry.
5. Passepartout, who had been anxiously watching this amateur gymnast, approached him with lively interest, and learned that he had taken flight after an unpleasant domestic scene.
6. She stepped lively, with a bounce he would not have expected from someone of her years.
7. She winced and shifted her gaze to the light, fixing her eyes on the lively fire that roared in the center of the cave.
8. I stopped the motion of the Giralda, I lifted the bulls of Guisando, I flung myself into the cavern and brought to light the secrets of its abyss and my hopes are as dead as dead can be, and her scorn and her commands as lively as ever.
9. One is a lively if tacky expressionist rendering of a restaurant scene.
10. She had been lively, bubbly last night at the restaurant.