Spryly

He exited the train and spryly scaled the stairs to the street like a man half his age. ❋ Mary Alston Capps (2011)

Never one to resort to simple open chord strums, Matthews spryly plucked circular ostinatos and buoyant chordal riffs to power the band's string of memorable hits. ❋ Unknown (2010)

The ranks of the crowd parted reluctantly as the horse, a strong bay, poked its long nose between two sets of shoulders, Before the astonished eyes of everyone-including me-the sticklike figure of Ned Gowan spryly dismounted. ❋ Unknown (2010)

A dead one of these. hand held more spryly, right side up ❋ Unknown (2010)

She trotted—rather spryly—up the sidewalk and into my house. ❋ Margaret Peterson Haddix (2009)

I manage to find out, before she hops spryly off the bus for her three-times-a-week swimming session at the Y, that she is 85. ❋ Unknown (2008)

Last month, he spryly led a tour of his workshop and the house the couple built in 1961. ❋ Unknown (2008)

The passenger, a wisp of a woman, flew free of the wreckage and landed spryly. ❋ Unknown (2005)

“Missed a bit,” she announced spryly, and tapped her forefinger on the left side of his jaw. ❋ Hamilton, Peter F. (2007)

She landed on a low stone wall, barely breaking stride as she ran spryly along the wall's top. ❋ Sanderson_Brandon (2006)

KNIFE OF DREAMS The peddler glanced in his direction, then hopped up on his seat quite spryly for such a stout man. ❋ Jordan, Robert, 1948- (2005)

The photo there showed a much older, spryly humorous fellow in a beret, eyes twinkling with wit. ❋ Horace Jeffery Hodges (2005)

Roger was thirty-nine, shorter, slim and spryly built. ❋ MICHAEL BALTER (2005)

He moved spryly for a fellow who looked to have had half the bones in his body broken one time or another. ❋ Jordan, Robert, 1948- (2005)

The bandaging around his foot meant that he had to wear a monk's sandal, and his limp was pronounced, but he borrowed a toy spear from one of the castle children and, using it as a walking stick, managed to get around spryly enough. ❋ Chadwick, Elizabeth (2004)

On the screen, a warthog jogged spryly through tall grasses, while a very cultured female voice with a British accent narrated its day. ❋ Barbara Chepaitis (2003)