Example Sentences

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"It partakes rather of the unsprightly than of the unsightly, of rigidness rather than of ugliness."

From The Journal of Abnormal Psychology, Volume 10 by Various

Through the open French windows of the drawing-room came the chink of many tea-cups, and a desultory but not unsprightly murmur of conversation.

From Poppy The Story of a South African Girl by Stockley, Cynthia