Word: sprightlier
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...evenings, in the epoch before the mightiest minds were turned to providing parlor entertainment, long and uninteresting. Young sparks also were compelled to walk the long miles that lay between their cottages and those of their well-beloveds. Arriving tired and cold, they sought some warmer, some sprightlier diversion than sofa sitting in a chilly chamber. Bundling was invented for their convenience. It consisted of putting girl and boy into neat, warm, supposedly secure garments and tucking them into bed, where they might lie, talking or drowsing through the winter evenings. The practice was regarded as an incentive to lawful...