Their accomplishments were even more impressive given that, just after the first leg, they had won an energy-sapping and unsurprisingly feisty Scottish Cup semi-final against Dundee at Tynecastle.
As someone who has been described as "small, but feisty" on more than one occasion, the blue tit and I are kindred spirits," she said.
Do the rats get feisty in the heat?
So, in little more than a fortnight, she banged out a play about a feisty Salford girl, Jo, who is left alone by her flighty mum one Christmas, goes to bed with a transient Nigerian sailor, gets pregnant and is lovingly tended by an effeminate art student.
Without Von Furstenberg's heritage, the fashion industry might have tired of a brand that riffs endlessly on the theme of the feisty independent woman.
Scarlett O' Hara is a feisty teenage girl, with everything a girl could possibly want.
England lost their grip once again on Australia's slippery middle order in a slack post-lunch session at the Sydney Cricket Ground, but there was some consolation in a feisty bowling performance as the clouds gathered later in the day, and no great surprise that it should be Ben Stokes who provided a sense of incision against the tail.
The hardcore American myths of fighting rivals, making it and escaping the hood mingle with the swagger, anxiety and wariness of an English black man born in broken Peckham in the early 1980s, raised by a feisty single mum, a father himself at 21, who ended up spending two years in jail on gun charges, numbly emerging in 2005 with a plan to better himself.
And it was not long before she and feisty Hefina in a tour de force performance became spokeswomen for their community.
But one day Xanthe arrives - cool, urban and feisty.
We have a lot in common, but we also have a feisty relationship.
