How to use "lively" in a sentence

Christmas 1823 was especially lively and colourful in the village of Montfermeil

You try to see the clock in the dark, but it is impossible, and you think that it must be somewhere between four and six o'clock: the darkest hours of the night when even the lively and vibrant city of Manchester sleeps.

I thought of Rebecca, lively and beautiful, arranging everything

Now she looked like the Laura I first met at Limmeridge: her expression was lively once more, she smiled frequently, and she had lost that sad nervous look that made her so very like Anne Catherick