All 22 Uses of
vivacious
in
Les Miserables
- Had he done so, he would have seen the host of the Cross of Colbas standing on his threshold, surrounded by all the guests of his inn, and all the passers-by in the street, talking vivaciously, and pointing him out with his finger; and, from the glances of terror and distrust cast by the group, he might have divined that his arrival would speedily become an event for the whole town.†
Chpt 1.2vivaciously = in a manner that is engaging and enthusiastic
- Madame Magloire small, plump, vivacious; Mademoiselle Baptistine gentle, slender, frail, somewhat taller than her brother, dressed in a gown of puce-colored silk, of the fashion of 1806, which she had purchased at that date in Paris, and which had lasted ever since.†
Chpt 1.2
- Madame Magloire had an intelligent, vivacious, and kindly air; the two corners of her mouth unequally raised, and her upper lip, which was larger than the lower, imparted to her a rather crabbed and imperious look.†
Chpt 1.2
- At the moment when the Bishop entered, Madame Magloire was talking with considerable vivacity.†
Chpt 1.2 *vivacity = engaging liveliness
- "To table!" he cried vivaciously.†
Chpt 1.2vivaciously = in a manner that is engaging and enthusiastic
- In a twinkling, with all the vivacity of an alert old woman, Madame Magloire had rushed to the oratory, entered the alcove, and returned to the Bishop.†
Chpt 1.2vivacity = engaging liveliness
- Suddenly a man of lofty stature emerged vivaciously from the crowd, seized the woman by her satin bodice, which was covered with mud, and said to her, "Follow me!"†
Chpt 1.5vivaciously = in a manner that is engaging and enthusiastic
- One gives way to vivacity; and then, when some one puts something cold down your back just when you are not expecting it!†
Chpt 1.5vivacity = engaging liveliness
- While the two women were whispering together, with their backs turned to Fantine's bed, the sister interrogating, the servant conjecturing, Fantine, with the feverish vivacity of certain organic maladies, which unite the free movements of health with the frightful emaciation of death, had raised herself to her knees in bed, with her shrivelled hands resting on the bolster, and her head thrust through the opening of the curtains, and was listening.†
Chpt 1.7
- You shall see her soon; but calm yourself; you are talking with too much vivacity, and you are throwing your arms out from under the clothes, and that makes you cough.†
Chpt 1.8
- They were two really pretty little girls, more bourgeois than peasant in looks, and very charming; the one with shining chestnut tresses, the other with long black braids hanging down her back, both vivacious, neat, plump, rosy, and healthy, and a delight to the eye.†
Chpt 2.3
- Thoughtless and vivacious spirits say:— "What is the good of those motionless figures on the side of mystery?†
Chpt 2.7
- He was a boisterous, pallid, nimble, wide-awake, jeering, lad, with a vivacious but sickly air.†
Chpt 3.1
- He replied vivaciously:— "Yes, respected sir.†
Chpt 3.8vivaciously = in a manner that is engaging and enthusiastic
- It is one of the laws of those fresh years of suffering and trouble, of those vivacious conflicts between a first love and the first obstacles, that the young girl does not allow herself to be caught in any trap whatever, and that the young man falls into every one.†
Chpt 4.3
- M. Gillenormand followed him with his eyes, and at the moment when the door opened, and Marius was on the point of going out, he advanced four paces, with the senile vivacity of impetuous and spoiled old gentlemen, seized Marius by the collar, brought him back energetically into the room, flung him into an armchair and said to him:— "Tell me all about it!"†
Chpt 4.8vivacity = engaging liveliness
- His eyes acquired some vivacity when they rested on his books, and he smiled when he gazed at the Diogenes Laertius, which was a unique copy.†
Chpt 4.9
- It was a boy less than ten years of age, ragged, very small, yellow, with an odd phiz, a vivacious eye, an enormous amount of hair drenched with rain, and wearing a contented air.†
Chpt 4.12
- But Gavroche, who was of the wagtail species, and who skipped vivaciously from one gesture to another, had just picked up a stone.†
Chpt 4.15vivaciously = in a manner that is engaging and enthusiastic
- He exclaimed, with a vivacity which had something of wrath in it: "Yes, that man, whoever he may have been, was sublime.†
Chpt 5.5vivacity = engaging liveliness
- He went to this table with a sort of vivacity, took a key from his pocket, and opened the valise.†
Chpt 5.6
- She seized his hands with vivacity, and raising them to her face with an irresistible movement, she pressed them against her neck beneath her chin, which is a gesture of profound tenderness.†
Chpt 5.8
Definition:
having an engaging liveliness -- when said of a person, typically said of a female