Sentence examples for once spirited from inspiring English sources

New York already had a wonderful first baseman still in his playing prime, Tino Martinez (whom the Yankees had once spirited away from the frugal Seattle Mariners).

Visiting her once spirited but now enervated former employer at a nursing home, Maria describes the excitement of her first purchase in years, a garish painting of a bay at sunset.

Lost for the moment, at least, is a once-spirited campaign for full independence.

The conversation in the aftermath of it," Obama trailed off, at once frustrated and spirited at the White House.

Donning a pair of spectacles slightly larger than welder's goggles, she settles down to read, and at once we are spirited into the tale that Edward tells.

More than once, our wallets spirited themselves out of our bags and on to the floor of whatever bar we were in, during that interim stage of a pickpocketing event that they call "plausible deniability".

Once a spirited, animated, generous child – "a good boy", in the words of one witness – he has allowed the bitterness of guilt and shame to change him.

All who have seen them play, who have thrilled to an attacking style at once so spirited and so cuttingly precise that the effect is of a cavalry charge of surgeons, must share that belief.

Holland were ultimately beaten in the final by the host nation but, led by Cruyff, they were indisputably the most thrilling national side of the era with, in the words of the journalist Hugh McIlvanney, "an attacking style at once so spirited and so cuttingly precise that the effect is of a cavalry charge of surgeons".

The move to limit the gatherings was met at once with spirited criticism from groups who questioned the constitutionality of the restrictions and argued that the possibility of damage to the lawn was no more than a pretext to mute political protest.

When Reminger's own dark past catches up with him, Dell becomes an unwitting accomplice in a ruthlessly executed killing and is spirited away once more, this time to the care of another stranger 500 miles away in Winnipeg.