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With highspirited and exhausting intensity Georgia flings herself from one crisis to another, helplessly authentic and helplessly humerous in her escapades.
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Clearly the image that has come down to us of the highspirited genius who drank himself to death with the riffraff of bohemian Montmartre, and worked only fitfully, is inadequate.
Lautrec's Bitter Theater Dorment, Richard 1991
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.328 - DEAR ME Those were just the light-hearted japes of highspirited medics, and they were fun.
An Autobiography Peter, Ustinov 1977
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O sinless one, the highspirited Yavakri finding that his father, who practised asceticism, was slighted by the Brahmanas, while Raivya with his sons was greatly respected by them, was overwhelmed with sorrow, and became sore aggrieved.
The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Volume 1 Books 1, 2 and 3 Kisari Mohan [Translator] Ganguli
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O sinless one, the highspirited Yavakri finding that his father, who practised asceticism, was slighted by the
The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa Translated into English Prose Vana Parva, Part 1 Kisari Mohan [Translator] Ganguli
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It is worthy of note that the same aptitude for affairs and the same keen sense of honor which distinguished this highspirited chief survives in the member of his family who, on the Canadian Reservation, now bears the same title, -- Chief John Buck, -- whom his white neighbors all admit to be both a capable ruler and an able and trustworthy negotiator.
The Iroquois Book of Rites Horatio Hale 1856
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She is too highspirited for Mr. Booker, who hates to have his sweet temper ruffled, and will rather suffer matters to go a little wrong sometimes, than give his righteous spirit any uneasiness.
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Henry the Sixth, had been strongminded, highspirited, courageous, and of princely bearing.
The History of England, from the Accession of James II — Volume 1 Thomas Babington Macaulay Macaulay 1829
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Calderon's stately and highspirited Castilian gentlemen became sties of vice, Shakspeare's Viola a procuress, Moliere's Misanthrope a ravisher,
The History of England, from the Accession of James II — Volume 1 Thomas Babington Macaulay Macaulay 1829
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Preston had always been reputed a highspirited and gallant gentleman; but the near prospect of
The History of England, from the Accession of James II — Volume 3 Thomas Babington Macaulay Macaulay 1829
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