spryness

For all his age, there was a spryness to his steps.

She moved with a brisk spryness that belied her years.

Once on his feet, he moved with a combination of stiffness and spryness that was painful to watch.

And the Communists are moving with atypical spryness to exploit their opening.

We undressed and she complimented me on my evident spryness.

With a spryness that gave that the lie, he went from upside down to right side up.

Paying his own driver, Rayne hobbled forward with remarkable spryness.

He hopped up on the bulwark with a spryness that belied his advanced age.

Dropping back with his remarkable spryness, Treblaw aimed to fire at the crook.

Greville's spryness was hampered only when he undertook a climb.

But Scotty, showing unexpected spryness, clambered onto the hatch before it touched the ground.

Novotna is known for her serve-and-volley spryness but also for folding late in a match.

He was beginning to doubt his instincts now, in spite of the spryness and effective getaway of the old lady.

With surprising spryness, the old man sidled across the compartment and picked up Delka's briefcase.

How fortunate I've been to live long enough to recognize the subtle but undeniable fading of my youthful stamina and spryness.

I accepted this invitation with alacrity, and the old lady set off up the path with a sure-footed spryness that belied her years.

She passed out yellow slickers and Helen clambered over the other boats to board Kit's with the spryness of a youngster.

The humor of the character, his brightness, his spryness, his half-concealed vanity are all subtly suggested.

New in the lead role, Yvonne Borree danced with the clarity, strength and endearing spryness that have come to identify this promising young dancer.

And when she turns a perfect cartwheel to demonstrate her enduring spryness, you appreciate both the depths of her vanity and her dangerous tenacity.

The glavers skidded to a halt and reversed course with astonishing spryness, cantering away with the noor yipping close behind.

I didn't know what to expect of Gray's condition, but he came down the hall confidently and though a tad frail, had a spryness that instantly relaxed me.

Luckily, some authors know better, and J. Patrick Lewis has a balletic commitment to spryness and light no matter how grim the storyboard.

It was the wound in his leg that seemed to bother him, and it was all of a week before he got back again to his old spryness.

Balanchine himself and Jerome Robbins portrayed Drosselmeier as a visible elder; Mr. La Fosse, although adding a peg-leg limp, injected a youthful spryness.