spry

In spite of the terror that made his body shake, George Willard was amused at the sight of the small spry figure holding the grasses and half running along the platform.

These yer orphans 'll git their house back agin, and that's enough for THEM; they're young and spry, and k'n easy earn a livin'.

I ain't ben feelin' any too spry these last few days."

Matthew is getting up in years, you know--he's sixty-- and he isn't so spry as he once was.

I can't understand a spry man of the union finding no work to do in Chicago."

Don't think I feel spry enough for dat ar, no way!" and Sam gave a hoarse chuckle.

Hollister, that the baste he rode was but little able to joomp from one rock to another, and the animal was as spry as a squirrel?

"I'm spry as a cricket this winter, though I have the realagy sometimes.

"Yes," he answered, "there are in me the makings of a very fine loafer and also of a pretty spry sort of fellow.

I am the most incurably lazy devil that ever stood in shoe leather -- that is, when the fit is on me, for I can be spry enough at times."

He heard that Fanshaw couldn't find his cigar-holder anywhere; he also heard the pilot deliver the oracle "Both eyes bright, she's all right; one eye winks, down she sinks." He heard Flambeau say to Fanshaw that no doubt this meant the pilot must keep both eyes open and be spry. And he heard Fanshaw say to Flambeau that, oddly enough, it didn't mean this: it meant that while they saw two of the coast lights, one near and the other distant, exactly side by side, they were in the right river-channel; but that if one light was hidden behind the other, they were going on the rocks.

They are spry enough with a knife, but you show them the business end of a shooting-iron, and they'll streak like rabbits for the nearest hole.