livelier

The livelier was our surprise, when he said one evening: “The music of the dance has died away; our transitory, youthful friends have left us; the happy pair themselves have a more serious look than they had some days ago; to part at such a time, when perhaps we shall never meet again, certainly never without changes, exalts us to a solemn mood, which I know not how to entertain more nobly than by the music you were lately signifying a desire to have repeated.

Confessions of a Fair Saint. Book VI 1917

Speaking earlier, Chief Superintendent Dave Lewis, the commander for the UK police contingent on the ground in Cape Town, said it would make for a "livelier" scene but added:

Your Local Guardian | Wimbledon 2010

It's not a real Taser in that you have to be about half an inch away from the victim before it will work, but still, it will certainly make weddings "livelier".

The Policeman's Blog 2010

It's not a real Taser in that you have to be about half an inch away from the victim before it will work, but still, it will certainly make weddings "livelier".

The Policeman's Blog 2010

When I decided to sell my Sobell (coco / Euro spruce) because I worried about it every time I took it out of the case, and couldn't stand to see it get its first dent at some of the "livelier" places our group plays, I determined to hunt another carved-top OM.

Mandolin Cafe News 2009

When I decided to sell my Sobell (coco / Euro spruce) because I worried about it every time I took it out of the case, and couldn't stand to see it get its first dent at some of the "livelier" places our group plays, I determined to hunt another carved-top OM.

Mandolin Cafe News 2009

Westminster politics "feels pretty stuck" he warns, adding that his aim is to stimulate "a livelier debate" and to challenge the left to develop its own "big idea" as an alternative to the Conservative-Liberal Democrat alliance.

Rowan Williams: no one voted for coalition policies 2011

This brought livelier urgings and encouragements from Skipper, and made him almost frantic.

CHAPTER VI 2010

Mandarins, clumsy in the weak mortar lightship, stumbled against the waistband as if it were just then being discovered, while other, livelier, sours, shouted and slapped the castanet during spontaneous bid-quoting contingencies and then became very quintet and watchful.

Farouche Matt Dennison 2011

In fact, there's a livelier literary scene in Missoula, Montana than in the District of Columbia.

A young reader discovers the meaning of paranoia in the political novels of Allen Drury 2009