Full of pluck

Usage examples of spirited.

The Cayman Islands, the Bahamas, and the Netherlands Antilles each provided sophisticated banking services catering to the harried businessman in need of a secure hiding place for funds spirited from under the blind eyes of a trusting partner or the vengeful maw of a wronged spouse.

The glow from the full moon interrupted the darkness of her room, as she heard the mariachi band begin another spirited song.

The prompt and spirited answer he gave to the call upon North Carolina to furnish troops for the subjugation of the Southern States, was the fitting complement of his earlier action in immediately restoring to the Federal Government Forts Johnson and Caswell, which had been seized without proper authority.

Indeed, it was to me almost a relief to turn from these deadly undertides to the ill-starred but spirited enterprises in the military sphere.

In a characteristically spirited, unambiguous letter, Adams made the case for revaluation and for no preferred treatment for French merchants, his purpose being to make clear his own views and those, he was sure, of Congress and the American people.

As they awaited word from the master bomber, the agents spirited Parker around under a blanket in the back of an embassy Chevy Suburban.

The Bedlington terriers-three on one side, two on the other-frisked ahead like spirited outriders.

One afternoon, when I had listened,--it was impossible not to listen, with cottonless ears,--and then laughed and listened again, with an idle pen in my hand, during a particularly spirited and personal conversation, I reached for my hat, and, taking blotting-book and all under my arm, I resolutely fled further temptation, and walked out past the fragrant green garden and up the dusty road.

In another part of the keep, the dance continued, and high, spirited music wafted weakly, lacelike, down the halls.

He even harangued my servant Lorenz, to make him reveal how he had spirited away the press and type.

The misstatement, in consequence of his spirited and energetic remonstrances, was corrected.

Accustomed to riding a spirited Nicaean stallion, he was now trying to adjust to a small grey donkey.

Scunthorpe, no proficient, and was in a fair way to milling his way out of the shop when the watch, in the shape of several Charleys, all springing their rattles, burst in upon them and, after a spirited set-to, over-powered the two peacebreakers, and hailed them off to the watch-house.

But the younger Wiener, though still years shy of his fellow postdoctoral students, enjoyed the spirited discussions, held his own in them, and the interplay helped greatly to improve his social skills.

I had also learned that she was not a vicious man-killer but a spirited saddlebred, sensitive to my hands, who responded with instant obedience to my clumsy movements.