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Meanings of spry in English

Moving quickly and lightly.

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Usage of spry in English
1
I always heard that they were spry enough in their own way.
The Ball and the Cross
2
The more spry went to the rails and called to the mer.
Surrender to the will of the night
3
Ye look spry 'nough now, he shouted in his best quarter-deck voice.
The Tides of Barnegat
4
And I am not as spry as I was ten years ago.
A Little Girl in Old Boston
5
A fall on the leaves didn't hurt a spry fellow like him.
The Woodlanders
6
Yes; but you're a mile bigger and heavier, and you're spry, too.
Dave Darrin's Second Year at Annapolis / Or, Two Midshipmen as N...
7
The giver was his godmother, a spry older woman named Donna Bondi.
The manning grooms: bride on the loose\same time, next year
8
YOU might get through, ef you war spry, but not your hoss.
A Sappho of Green Springs
9
I wouldn't expect a rope dancer to live here and stay spry.
Treasure and Trouble Therewith: A Tale of California
10
You'd better be spry if you want to go along with 'em.
In the Valley
11
Why, Bart, she's spry as a cricket and pretty as a picture.
The Light in the Clearing: A Tale of the North Country in the Ti...
12
Leave that man there, and look spry, or you'll feel mighty sorry.
Rodman the Boatsteerer, and Other Stories / 1898
13
No, Sir, Granny Fox isn't as spry as she used to be.
Old Granny Fox
14
You're mighty spry and clever, but you didn't catch on just then.
A Protegee of Jack Hamlin's, and Other Stories
15
Oh, no, my old bones are not spry enough for quick climbing.
A Chinese Wonder Book
16
Zeke didn't know how to feel as he followed her spry, sidestepping climb.
Boneshaker
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Spry through the time
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United Kingdom
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United States of America
Common