Example Sentences

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So uneventful is life in these out-of-the-way places that such an arrival is the greatest possible social enlivener.

From My Attainment of the Pole by Cook, Frederick A.

I am glad he is with you: he will prove as good an enlivener of the spirits and invigourate the conversation amongst you, as much as Bath waters do The Blood.

From Lord Chatham His Early Life and Connections by Rosebery, Archibald Phillip Primrose

Then suppressed laughter and the gurgling of the flowing enlivener.

From The Iron Game A Tale of the War by Keenan, Henry F. (Henry Francis)

The spirit of White's and Brookes', the companion of a prince and a score of noblemen, the enlivener of every 'fashionable' table, was forgotten by all but this one doctor.

From The Wits and Beaux of Society Volume 2 by Wharton, Philip

The trumpet however is a necessary instrument about a Court, and a proper enlivener of a concert, though of no great harmony by itself.

From The Tatler, Volume 3 by Various