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Meanings of so spry in English

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Usage of so spry in English
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I am real glad to see you so spry and well.
Opening a Chestnut Burr
2
Seems like long time since old man see'd Miss Frankone look so spry.
Our World; Or, the Slaveholder's Daughter
3
Sister Agnes and the rest of them are not so spry as they were...'
The Long Earth
4
You see, I'm-notso spry as I used to be.
The Desert of Wheat
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She slurped it down, groaned, and came to life so spry it was purely astonishing.
Savage
6
Bondsman and me ain't so spry as we was.
Jim Waring of Sonora-Town; Or, Tang of Life
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Which he does gracefully and with perfect balance; he has not looked so spry in years.
The system of the world
8
I'se de same old darkey now dat I was years ago, only not quite so spry.
Leah Mordecai: A Novel
9
He isn't half so spry as I am.
The Adventures of Grandfather Frog
10
Matthew is getting up in years, you know-he'ssixty-andhe isn't so spry as he once was.
Anne of Green Gables
11
To be sure, the old lady was no longer so spry as she had been in her youth.
Ghosts
12
Besides, Miz Perkins is lame and can't get around so spry, and I can do more for her.
Ruth Fielding Down East; Or, The Hermit of Beach Plum Point
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He isn't half so spry as I am, and I can jump three times as far as he can.
The Adventures of Grandfather Frog
14
He ain't so spry.
Jim Waring of Sonora-Town; Or, Tang of Life
15
Why, the fact of it is, 'Tenty is so handy and so spry, I can't see how to spare her.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 06, No. 37, November, 1860 / A Maga...
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I'd be willing to stay there six months for the sake o' driving behind so spry a piece of horse-flesh as that.
'Way Down East / A Romance of New England Life
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