spright

Example Sentences

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To raise some holy Spright to do the Feat.

From Anti-Achitophel (1682) Three Verse Replies to Absalom and Achitophel by John Dryden by Jones, Harold Whitmore

He's dead, or else is with his little might Crept from the Bank for fear of that ill Spright.

From The Faithful Shepherdess The Works of Francis Beaumont and John Fletcher (Volume 2 of 10). by Beaumont, Francis

The forward Spright but few Instructions lackt, Strait by the Moons pale light away he packt, And in a trice, his Curtains open’d wide, He sate him by Achitophels Bed-side.

From Anti-Achitophel (1682) Three Verse Replies to Absalom and Achitophel by John Dryden by Jones, Harold Whitmore

Lead me to those fev’rous glooms, Spright of fire— Breama.

From Letters of John Keats to His Family and Friends by Keats, John