For him, life was heightened play, a constant lively curiosity about the world and its manifestations.

I asked, in lively curiosity, as Dorcas left the room.

Betsey had a lively curiosity and could ask about a hundred questions an hour.

"I thought you had a lively curiosity about such things."

But Brent was looking at the four of them with a very lively curiosity.

"Did it hurt," asked Peter, eyeing his friend with lively curiosity.

But she hadn't missed the knowing smirk and the lively curiosity in the eyes of the other woman.

The Plumie gazed about with an air of lively curiosity.

She had drunk it all in with her usual lively curiosity.

He gazed at me with, I thought, lively curiosity.