Lively quality

Usage examples of esprit.

During this malady, they caused several masses to be said in different places, especially at St Maur des Fosses, at St Amable, and at St Esprit.

Le chanoine Trevoux quitta ce monde a quelque temps de la, laissant une histoire des saints de Bretagne qui atteste la purete de son ame et la simplicite de son esprit.

Yet Number Five has more esprit, more sparkle, more sense in her talk, than many a famous authoress from whom we should expect brilliant conversation.

After his visit I told Esprit to take me to the PalaisRoyal, and I left him at the gates.

Lorsque cette idee se fut presentee a son esprit, elle en chassa le mecontentement et la colere.

Occupent nos esprits et trauailknt nos corps, Et nous atimmtons nos amiabks remords, Comme ks mendiants nourrissent leur vermine.

Occupent nos esprits et travaillent nos corps, Et nous alimentons nos amiables remords, Comme les mendiants nourrissent leur vermine.

From virology to genetics and primate paleobiology, each of the specialties had its own esprit de corps, its own labs, its own pursuits.

Esprit, and important chiefly as fur-trading paths, there remains but one other historic portage path across the ridge of stone and swamp and prairie from which are pendent, on the one side, all the silver streams of the Mississippi Valley and, on the other side, all the Great Lakes and all the rivers that flow into them.

After his visit I told Esprit to take me to the PalaisRoyal, and I left him at the gates.

She was a goddaughter of old Mary Wortley Montagu: and, like that famous old woman of the last century, made considerable pretensions to be a blue-stocking and a bel esprit.

All Marines, in his opinion, had the kind of esprit de corps and impeccable discipline that the Finns he so admired in combat had possessed.

There were a lot of reasons why the Greek campaign was a fiasco, but one of them was that personnel were moved around so much that there was no possibility of developing any esprit de corps.

And that officers are transferred with great frequency and enlisted men with considerable frequency and you have a situation in which esprit de corps cannot be developed (an outfit without esprit de corps is not an army unit.

Nevertheless, the army's heavy divisions (its six armored and mechanized divisions) retain a strong sense of professionalism and a corresponding esprit de corps.