| 1. | His action was alternately vivacious and sullen. - from The Works of Edgar Allan Poe by Edgar Allan Poe |
| 2. | Thoughtless and vivacious spirits say-. - from Les Miserables by Victor Hugo |
| 3. | And I expect you'll do your part fine," he said, smiling down into her eager, vivacious little face. - from Anne Of Green Gables by Lucy Maud Montgomery |
| 4. | "But you have such dimples," said Anne, smiling affectionately into the pretty, vivacious face so near her own. - from Anne Of Green Gables by Lucy Maud Montgomery |
| 5. | If you yourself can withstand three cheers at beholding these vivacious fish, then heaven help ye the spirit of godly gamesomeness is not in ye. - from Moby Dick; or The Whale by Herman Melville |
| 6. | Dimmesdale exhibited no symptom of positive and vivacious suffering, except that, as little Pearl had remarked, he kept his hand over his heart. - from The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne |
| 7. | No vivacious Bacchanalian flame leaped out of the pressed grape of Monsieur Defarge but, a smouldering fire that burnt in the dark, lay hidden in the dregs of it. - from A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens |
| 8. | "He is a skyrocket," or "she is a firefly," are phrases often used to describe that vivacious individual whose adeptness at repartee puts the rest of the crowd in the background. - from How to Analyze People on Sight by Elsie Lincoln Benedict and Ralph Paine Benedict |
| 9. | He was a boisterous, pallid, nimble, wide-awake, jeering, lad, with a vivacious but sickly air. - from Les Miserables by Victor Hugo |