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verve
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  • My return over the river was accomplished with such verve that I paddled the canoe almost her full length up on the beach on the other side.†   (source)
  • In this, the atmosphere, no matter how coarse, has a verve and an essential joviality that casts out morbidity.†   (source)
  • And though no direct word came, Raymond, after being on the defensive for so long, and after all the talking he had had to do about the madonna cult, began to be more argumentative with visitors and to hint, with something of his old verve, that the President had something up his sleeve that would give a new direction to the country.†   (source)
  • Effie, shining in a wig of metallic gold, lacks her usual verve.†   (source)
  • He was the undisciplined, recalcitrant, nonconformist, politically incorrect free spirit I had always wanted to be, had I been brave enough, and I took vicarious joy in his unbridled verve.†   (source)
  • Aunt Bertha's customary verve and impudence had vanished, and with it her boisterous manner that was part of her even when she spoke quietly.†   (source)
  • "Settembrini," the Italian corrected him with particular verve, accompanied by a facetious bow.†   (source)
  • Homais had composed it with verve the very next morning.†   (source)
  • Chicago he approved for a certain verve that transcended its loud accent—however, it was a Yale town, and as the Yale Glee Club was expected in a week the Triangle received only divided homage.†   (source)
  • Ned identified the fish, Conseil classified them, and as for me, I was in ecstasy over the verve of their movements and the beauty of their forms.†   (source)
  • Everything tends to show that his convelescence will be brief; and who knows even if at our next village festivity we shall not see our good Hippolyte figuring in the bacchic dance in the midst of a chorus of joyous boon-companions, and thus proving to all eyes by his verve and his capers his complete cure?†   (source)
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