Lexicographical Neighbors of Sprightlinesses
Literary usage of Sprightlinesses
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Monthly Review by Ralph Griffiths (1824)
"... neatly. of them being familiar to our recollection: but he has the merit —
Our readers must have a few Spring- sprightlinesses. ' " How do YOU know ? ..."
2. The Life of Charles Lamb by Edward Verrall Lucas (1907)
"In the Elia essay on " Newspapers " is this amusing passage: " While we were
wringing out coy sprightlinesses for the Post [in 1802-03], and writhing under ..."
3. The Works of Charles Lamb: to which are prefixed his letters, and a sketch by Charles Lamb (1871)
"While we were wringing out coy sprightlinesses for The Post, and writhing under
the toil of what is called " easy writing," Bob Allen, ..."
4. The Fourth Estate: Contributions Towards a History of Newspapers, and of the by Frederick Knight Hunt (1850)
"While we were ringing out coy sprightlinesses for The Post, and writhing under
the toil of what is called ' easy writing,' Bob Allen, ..."
5. The Man of Feeling by Henry Mackenzie (1893)
"... or is supposed to take, from the flippancy of girlhood those sprightlinesses
with which some good-natured old maids oblige the world at threescore. ..."
6. The Essays of Elia by Charles Lamb (1892)
"While we were wringing out coy sprightlinesses for the Post, and writhing under
the toil of what is called "easy writing," Bob Allen, our quondam school- ..."
7. The Essays of Elia by Charles Lamb (1856)
"... and Daniel, and ourselves, to do us justice, did the best we could on this
side bursting him. While we were wringing out coy sprightlinesses for the ..."
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