The most active of the French missionaries were the Jesuits.

The most active of the Chatham ministers was Charles Townshend.

Active was the brain that resisted the influences of so much leisure as most of these people had.

Our horses were, fortunately, as active as cats, and knew their way well, for to guide them was impossible.

Concealment, however, was no longer possible, and our young master came out as active as circumstances required, foremost in every exertion, and issuing his orders amid the gale trumpet-tongued.

For a man who is in a condition to enjoy pleasures, I believe that health makes itself felt by something more active than ease, or indolence, as a good disposition of the soul demands something more animated than will permit a state of tranquillity.

During the next day or two the enemy's artillery was as active as hitherto, but the punishment he had received in his attacks made him pause, and there were only small half-hearted attempts to reach our line.

Against stupid pedagogy, against red-tape, against the policy that morality must never interfere with business principles, against civic dirtiness, against brothel and saloon, women are more active than men, because they see more clearly how vitally the interests of their children are affected by these evil conditions.

They all come and go like Captain-Generals, a mere official class, with the orders of the Church participating actively in secular concerns, more active as politicians than as teachers of religion.

They are extraordinary fellows, as active as tigers, and fabulously strong, though they are never very big.