sprightliness

She was shorter by a half-head than her darker cousin, and made up in sprightliness what she lacked of Ruth's gentle dignity.

How should one understand that the tones which seemed so harsh and jarring belonged in truth to a very code of sprightliness?

They made him stay to dinner and spend the rest of the day there, and by the evening he had recovered all his usual sprightliness.

Pick-Me-Up devotes itself to the humour of the music-hall, and is probably not largely beholden to women for its sprightliness.

Her charmingly developed figure had that sprightliness which Spanish women alone possess.