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Those vivacities of young Fritz, his taste for music, finery, those furtive excursions into the domain of Latin and forbidden things, were distasteful and incomprehensible to Friedrich Wilhelm: Where can such things end?

From History of Friedrich II of Prussia — Volume 04 by Carlyle, Thomas

He was full of bright speech and argument; radiant with arrowy vitalities, vivacities and ingenuities.

From Life of John Sterling by Carlyle, Thomas

How much ten years did at this time, one is apt to forget; and how irregularly the slower minds of the older men would surrender themselves, sadly, or awkwardly, to the vivacities of their pupils.

From Val d'Arno by Ruskin, John

M. Cacaut says that he used this expression, "After the scenes of Tolentino and of Leghorn, and the fright of Manfredini, and Mat�i threatened, and so many other vivacities."

From The Modern Regime, Volume 1 by Durand, John

It is imagined that the gay disposition of the young gentleman was not very suitable to the old man's temper, which was, perhaps, too grave and austere to relish the vivacities of his nephew.

From Great Men and Famous Women, Vol. 8 A series of pen and pencil sketches of the lives of more than 200 of the most prominent personages in History by Horne, Charles F. (Charles Francis)