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  • And now you are just a man I am going to marry -- Oh, well! "said Bettie, more sprightlily," I was getting on, and you are rather a dear even in that capacity.

    The Cords of Vanity A Comedy of Shirking James Branch Cabell 1918

  • "But I also spik the English," she sprightlily announced.

    The Certain Hour James Branch Cabell 1918

  • Journal_, -- and reposing, drolly enough, next the proof-sheets of an anonymous letter Pope had prepared for the forthcoming issue of that publication, wherein he sprightlily told how Budgell had poisoned Dr. Tindal, after forging his will.

    The Certain Hour James Branch Cabell 1918

  • -- Here, though, was a rather diverting letter from Eustace Budgell, that poor fool, abjectly thanking Mr. Pope for his advice concerning how best to answer the atrocious calumnies on Budgell then appearing in The Grub-Street Journal, -- and reposing, drolly enough, next the proof-sheets of an anonymous letter Pope had prepared for the forthcoming issue of that publication, wherein he sprightlily told how Budgell had poisoned Dr. Tindal, after forging his will.

    The Certain Hour 1909

  • "But I also spik the English," she sprightlily announced.

    The Certain Hour 1909

  • She kissed them all good-bye, brightly and sprightlily, and off she set.

    The Lost Girl 1907

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