Thesaurus / high-spirited
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Winifred, naturally a high-spirited and lively girl, soon recovered from the fright of that fateful Sunday evening.
THE RED YEARLOUIS TRACYThe energetic, the daring, the high-spirited go, leaving the residue more abject and nerveless than ever.
GLANCES AT EUROPEHORACE GREELEYHe would kill them both, high-spirited horses like those, they said, if he took them over that road.
RAMONAHELEN HUNT JACKSONShe was a strong-souled, high-spirited girl, but tonight hope seemed extinguished in her breast.
ST. MARTIN'S SUMMERRAFAEL SABATINIThe high-spirited girl had no idea of being thus disposed of in the matrimonial bazaar.
MADAME ROLAND, MAKERS OF HISTORYJOHN S. C. ABBOTTShe was a merry, high-spirited girl to whom such an adventure would certainly appeal.
THE DOCTOR OF PIMLICOWILLIAM LE QUEUXTruth to say, the young gentleman, no longer kept down by poor Edward, was getting high-spirited and venturesome.
ELSTER'S FOLLYMRS. HENRY WOODShe was high-spirited as a girl, a little willful and impulsive, but with the best heart in the world.
A HOOSIER CHRONICLEMEREDITH NICHOLSONOf the five children the eldest is the high-spirited, impulsive Bruno, who is just of an age to go away to a city school.
MAEZLIJOHANNA SPYRIThe horse was mettlesome and high-spirited, and the sight of Perry's motor-cycle sent the animal leaping toward the roadside.
MOTOR MATT'S DARING, OR, TRUE TO HIS FRIENDSSTANLEY R. MATTHEWSWORDS RELATED TO HIGH-SPIRITED
- adventurous
- assertive
- audacious
- bold
- chivalrous
- courageous
- dauntless
- fearless
- fire-eating
- gallant
- game
- grand
- great
- gritty
- gutsy
- gutty
- heroic
- high-spirited
- indomitable
- intrepid
- lion-hearted
- magnanimous
- nervy
- noble
- plucky
- powerful
- puissant
- redoubtable
- self-reliant
- spunky
- stalwart
- steadfast
- stout
- stouthearted
- strong-willed
- unafraid
- undaunted
- undismayed
- valorous
- venturesome
- venturous
- vigorous
- worthy
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