He provides a lively sketch of Fleming's wartime service, which helped inspire the novels.

The books were in manuscript and the text was interspersed with lively pen-and-ink sketches.

Mr. Pais (pronounced PICE) also includes some lively and evocative sketches of the famous people he knew over the decades.

Our driver, a pretty college student majoring in French literature, gave us lively thumbnail sketches, in excellent English, of the historical highlights of Old Montreal.

--which, besides that lively sketch, contained the "Random Notes" and seven other selections.

With these lively sketches, effective as they are, the book loses its thread as Village history and turns miscellaneous, though it gains from the author's growing resistance to his subjects.

Oil pastels can produce extremely vivid, vibrant and lively sketches which provide very useful reference material.

His lively sketches and police court reporting drew readers and increased the paper's circulation.

"Dummy" books filled with lively preliminary sketches for titles like The Sign on Rosie's Door, Pierre, and Higglety, Pigglety, Pop!

His incidental novels and journalistic feuilletons are not always moralistic or polished, but they are lively and amusing sketches of life.