Like cat burglars

Usage examples of spry.

This Miss Spry was the chairman of the ration board, and it seems like she and this Miss Pitkin was in the same business.

Mother Madison was still at Montpelier, and she was still spry, erect, mentally keen at nearly ninety.

Marshall was younger and sprier, but the journey had taken its toll on him, too.

He knew he was tougher than he lookedyes, and a lot sprier than he let onbut he was no match for a street-gang.

Moonshine was as old as her litter mate Nutmeg but much sprier in her dotage, despite countless litters.

He had long ago forfeited his mouser duties to the younger and sprier Miss Minx, who, as usual, was nowhere to be seen.

Then he helped his father into the boat, though the older man was probably sprier than he was.

Major Marshall was younger and sprier, but the journey had taken its toll on him, too.

A sulfurous smell burned the nostrils of both men, and then a faint hum sounded as a short, spry, almost elflike wizard appeared in the room, his yellow-gold cape billowing with the last puffs of smoke.

Medusa last time, Athene put her back together again, with a difference: nowadays she turns stone to flesh instead of vice-versa: makes old folks spry again.

He was spry enough, though, and interested in taking on the job of guiding Maidia to Choteau in return for the spare horse.

She was as spry as they came, white-haired, with a hospitable smile, angelic facial features, and twenty pounds on the plump side.

And last, if you should chance to reach equal my years You must find you a new kind of trade For the plea that you're still spry will fall on deaf ears There's no work for old swords, I'm afraid.

All hands apart from the spry and cheerful Jagiello looked somewhat bleary, but none so bleary as a glum middle-aged man in a sheepskin cap with books under his arm, who was pointed out to Stephen as the Minnie's first mate.

Her step was spry as I followed her along a footworn path to the barn, where she disappeared for a moment, then reappeared, herding a large brown-and-white cow into a small pasture, carefully setting in the fence bar to keep the animal out of the corn.