Even during the lively jigs and highstepping country flings, Michael's movements were lithe and light.
A tall, bony fellow borrowed Talia's pipe to play a lively jig, while two men and a woman bounded into the center to dance to it.
She took the fiddle from her carrying bag, gave Lady Rose a quick tuning, and began playing, choosing a simple jig, bright and lively.
Ossian's repertory includes lively jigs, reels and marches, and stately strathspeys as well as haunting airs and laments.
The pair currently free in the enclosure looked angry enough; the boy was dancing a lively jig to keep them away from his back and flanks.
Soon the chef was dancing a lively jig.
One of the weavers had also brought his instrument, and the two musicians joined in an amicable con- test, playing the liveliest jigs and reels in their rep- ertoire.
He grinned with his white teeth and, without stopping in his fiddling, scraped his bow harshly across the strings, and then instantly changed the tune to a lively jig.
Already music could be heard, the strains of a lively jig.
The concert will also include not a few lively jigs, reels and hornpipes.