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In the present day to act with spirit and speak with spirit means to act rashly and speak indiscretely.

From The Gentlemen's Book of Etiquette and Manual of Politeness Being a Complete Guide for a Gentleman's Conduct in all his Relations Towards Society by Hartley, Cecil B.

"It seems to me," said Marchdale, "that this affair has been not indiscretely conducted; but somewhat unusually and strangely, to say the least of it."

From Varney the Vampire Or the Feast of Blood by Prest, Thomas Preskett

Some days after, the duke gave a ball at St. Germains, to which he invited the Scots nobleman, and some person indiscretely asked his grace whether he had forbid the duchess's dancing with lord C——.

From The Lives of the Poets of Great Britain and Ireland (1753) Volume IV by Cibber, Theophilus