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Definition of Spryest
1. spry [adj] - See also: spry
Lexicographical Neighbors of Spryest
Literary usage of Spryest
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern by Edward Cornelius Towne (1896)
"Then they lay a board between two boats, and on this two of the youngest and
spryest wrestle till one falls into the water. . . . But all the fun's gone now ..."
2. Punch by Mark Lemon, Henry Mayhew, Tom Taylor, Shirley Brooks, Francis Cowley Burnand, Owen Seaman (1879)
"Guess shoe-making and mending is one of the things we do best out here. I admit
that Paris is just about the spryest, slickest, liveliest, ..."
3. Recreation by George O. Shields, American Canoe Association, League of American Sportsmen (1899)
"The red squirrel is the spryest, and most athletic animal in this region (except
the weasel), and comes pretty near being king of the forests—or if not the ..."
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