| 1. | Matthew is getting up in years, you know--he's sixty--and he isn't so spry as he once was. - from Anne Of Green Gables by Lucy Maud Montgomery |
| 2. | I am the most incurably lazy devil that ever stood in shoe leather--that is, when the fit is on me, for I can be spry enough at times.. - from A Study In Scarlet by Arthur Conan Doyle |
| 3. | The spry rattle had run on in the same vein of mimicry but for some larum in the antechamber. - from Ulysses by James Joyce |