Continuous as the stars that shine and twinkle on the Milky Way, They stretched in never-ending line along the margin of a bay: Ten thousand saw I at a glance, tossing their heads in sprightly dance.

A Dance at the Defense Table One of his lawyers, Elizabeth Fink, did a sprightly little dance at the defense table and then broke down and cried too.

She quickly caught up a finger-pinch of her skirts to display her lively feet, and then deliberately embellished the sprightly dance.

And though these recordings filter the music through a modern sensibility, no emotional chord is left unsounded: the exquisite pain of the cantata arias, the spunky energy of the orchestral music, the sprightly dances of the suites, the pungent despair of the passions.

The tune to which "Auld Lang Syne" is commonly sung is a pentatonic Scots folk melody, probably originally a sprightly dance in a much quicker tempo.

Instead, there were amorous songs, sprightly dances and parables about vanity and hypocrisy, including a bawdy, almost Chaucerian tale about a convent and its misbehaving nuns.

Keyla Orozco Aleman's "Eco y Espejo" ("Echo and Mirror") was a set of sprightly and often intriguing contrapuntal dances for flute and violin, played by Paul Dunkel and Michael Roth at the ACO chamber concert.

This intoxicating production, which features a charming supporting cast led by Michael McKean, allows grown-up audiences the rare chance to witness a bona fide adult love affair translated into hummable songs and sprightly dance (2:30).

She heard music again: a sprightly dance, laughter and a bab- ble of voices.