Government never furthered any enterprise but by the alacrity with which it gets out of its way.    From LearnThat.org.  [Henry David Thoreau]

He accepted with alacrity.    From Wordnet, Princeton University. 

The party gathered itself up with alacrity from the grass.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Little Bush Maid] Reference

However, I had been used to this kind of alacrity from.    From Wordnik.com.  [Sketches New and Old] Reference

(I was going to use the word "alacrity," but I find that it means "cheerful readiness.").    From Wordnik.com.  [Man on the Box] Reference

The alacrity which is the effect of hope, the strength which is the effect of union, were alike wanting to the little community.    From Wordnik.com.  [The History of England, from the Accession of James II — Volume 5] Reference

A kind of alacrity in, 46. in thy last long sleep, 438.    From Wordnik.com.  [Familiar Quotations A Collection of Passages, Phrases, and Proverbs Traced to Their Sources in Ancient and Modern Literature] Reference

Lord "-- and throwing into this service" alacrity "in the discharge of all duties, and abiding" warmth of spirit "(Ro 12: 11)!.    From Wordnik.com.  [Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible] Reference

The CIA's alacrity caused some heartburn at the Pentagon.    From Wordnik.com.  [Into Thin Air] Reference

The BJP extolls his alacrity in toning up the country's security.    From Wordnik.com.  [Sunil Sharan: Shunned, Will He Bolt?] Reference

While the legs did not respond with alacrity, they showed improvement.    From Wordnik.com.  [Tom of the Raiders] Reference

Working with Kennedy's material, Skaggs is singing with a new alacrity.    From Wordnik.com.  [Ricky Skaggs: A 'Mosaic' Of Modesty, Openness] Reference

But the chess pieces sure have been moving about the board with alacrity.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Future Of CNN, Beyond Larry King] Reference

I breast-fed and co-slept, and responded to each and every cry with anxious alacrity.    From Wordnik.com.  [Mommy Madness] Reference

The detective obeyed with alacrity; coming to a halt near the cabin-way, Denman said.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Dock Rats of New York] Reference

The pack horse followed with an alacrity that showed he had no desire for loneliness.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Boy Scouts Book of Campfire Stories] Reference

And she was plunging with alacrity into the delightful subject, with all its variations.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 15, No. 87, January, 1865] Reference

The cost of two wars has been paid, not only without a murmur, but with unequaled alacrity.    From Wordnik.com.  [US Presidential Inaugural Addresses] Reference

And they executed on that one critical action with extreme alacrity and substantive results.    From Wordnik.com.  [Michele Colucci: Four Steps to Getting Your Product Out the Door -- Everybody Needs a Steve Bennett] Reference

Panthers, on the other hand, spring upon you with surprising alacrity and tear your head off.    From Wordnik.com.  [Panthera pardus] Reference

Jones's alacrity in redirecting compliments that come his way may be a self-protective strategy.    From Wordnik.com.  [George Is On Our Mind] Reference

With great alacrity each one examined his medicine box, but finds nothing adapted to this purpose.    From Wordnik.com.  [Legends, Traditions, and Laws of the Iroquois, or Six Nations, and History of the Tuscarora Indians] Reference

Garsiders who had come over to him with a swing, for some reason swung back with the same alacrity.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Hero of Garside School] Reference

At Israel's behest, nearly all Western countries signed onto the boycott with inexplicable alacrity.    From Wordnik.com.  [Johann Hari: Gideon Levy: The Most Hated Man in Israel -- and the Most Heroic] Reference

He had a perfect contempt for all humbug, and at once entered into the business with extreme alacrity.    From Wordnik.com.  [Memoirs of the Union's Three Great Civil War Generals] Reference

Engrossing, she found the story, and the alacrity of the princess taught her two very distinct lessons.    From Wordnik.com.  [Monster] Reference

Although Sheridan had been marching all day, his troops moved with alacrity and without any straggling.    From Wordnik.com.  [Memoirs of the Union's Three Great Civil War Generals] Reference

The Federal Reserve — and indeed, global central banks and governments — have responded with alacrity.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Recession in Dog Years] Reference

Why, both at home and abroad, did they respond with such alacrity and largesse to the big shots 'solicitations?.    From Wordnik.com.  [The King's Protection] Reference

The alacrity with which my beloved allowed Lubavitcher man to strap the black phylactery on took me by surprise.    From Wordnik.com.  [Michele Somerville: Chelsea and Marc: Their Mixed Marriage, a Mixed Blessing] Reference

Al Gore and the Democrats thought that they could turn Bush's alacrity for drastic change into their own political gain.    From Wordnik.com.  [No Time for a Great Debate] Reference

When the writer expressed with subtle alacrity that he adored the painter, she was flattered and didn't raise objection.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Unpublished Writer and His Love Interest (The Painter)] Reference

If the commission can be established with alacrity and a strong mandate, the tactical aspects will take care of themselves.    From Wordnik.com.  [Commissioning Justice for Burma] Reference

There was no man braver than he, nor was there any who obeyed all orders of his superior in rank with more unquestioning alacrity.    From Wordnik.com.  [Memoirs of the Union's Three Great Civil War Generals] Reference

Charbonneau replied with emulative alacrity, and finally, through the mist, they distinguished the group of huntsmen from Auberive.    From Wordnik.com.  [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference

Analysts who were appropriately skeptical of dot-com stocks in 1997 and '98 were replaced with alacrity by more optimistic analysts.    From Wordnik.com.  [Goodbye Household Names, Hello No-Names] Reference

This was begun with alacrity at four different points, officers and men vieing with one another in the laborious work of destruction.    From Wordnik.com.  [Memoirs of the Union's Three Great Civil War Generals] Reference

Watch the clip and see how this character who aspires to the speakership talks with such alacrity about raising the retirement age to 70.    From Wordnik.com.  [Howie Klein: There's a Republican for That...] Reference