This being "spirited men and women" is grounded on its cultural, religious and political background.

A bitter, mean- spirited man with too great a sense of his own worth.

How attractively free spirited this man is.

Harmel's attempt to seek a surrender from the spirited, beleaguered men on the bridge had failed.

He was a spirited, easy-going man with a whimsical sense of humor.

And the highjinks of spirited young men on wheels briefly put Utah in the national spotlight.

An appeal to his alarm is never a good plan to rid oneself of a spirited young man.

A spirited man, he prefers exploring rather than marriage, much to the dismay of his mother.

Tobias was a spirited young man more given to chasing skirts than to selling the material to make them.

Gavin, and John Witherspoon, his brother, were two active spirited men at this period.