jauntiness

The assurance and jauntiness which generally marked his demeanour and dress were, however, wanting.

Monroe still ran springily and with the jauntiness which betokened the practised runner.

Though some of the names are not happily chosen, they call up many episodes of parade gaiety and jauntiness, or warlike fire.

And he was sensible of his age, his infirmity, his isolation, and his jauntiness was eclipsed.

Whenever she thought he might be looking at her, the weary shoulders straightened with a pathetic attempt at jauntiness.

“Naughty, naughty,” said Ellis, but his tone had lost some of its jauntiness.

And Peter went on, a bit of pride and jauntiness in his step, his bony tail a little higher.

Indeed, I felt a lift of the spirit, the kind of jauntiness with which one meets a crucial adventure.

He stopped whistling and strove to control the jauntiness of his gait.

"Of course," retorted Bertram, trying in vain to give an air of jauntiness to his reply.