Meanings of sprightly way in English

Another man stepped forward in almost a sprightly way and glanced insolently up.

Mrs. Blake pricked at the subject in her sprightly way.

He told, in a sprightly way, several anecdotes.

At length, finding herself alone with Grandma Elsie for a while, she turned to her, saying in a sprightly way:

For an instant Miss Hamilton hesitated; her face relaxed, and she looked at Max a little wistfully; but Miss Darrell interposed in her sprightly way:

Every one, even cross old Draper, idolised Sara for her beauty and sprightly ways.

Zara's natty appearance and sprightly ways made her a favourite with every one especially the gentlemen.

"Clarence is handsome, but worthless," she continued in her sprightly way.

"Oh no," she answered; then, in a sprightly way-"areyou a governor's son?"

But he often thought of her, her loving, sprightly ways seven years ago, and the blaze of beauty with which she had returned.

"Really, I hardly know what reply to make to that last remark," returned Annis, in her sprightly way.

"What I am dying to know," said Miss Filkin, in a sprightly way, "is whether he is black or white!"

"She meant nothing unkind: it is only her pretty sprightly way; and she did not really imagine a love so reverent as mine"-