spright
Example Sentences
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A fine young spright was Rudolph now, with jet-black hair and eyes like coals.
From The Fairies and the Christmas Child by Lilian Gask
Hang up your bloody colours in the air, Up with your fights, and your nettings prepare; Your merry mates cheer, with a lusty bold spright, Now each man his brindice, and then to the fight.
From The works of John Dryden, now first collected in eighteen volumes. Volume 05 by Sir Walter Scott
Hereat the hardest stones were seen to bleed, And groans of buried ghosts the heavens did pierce: Where Homer's spright did tremble all for grief, And cursed the access of that celestial thief.
From Sir Walter Ralegh A Biography by W. (William) Stebbing
"That old Dan Geffrey, in whose gentle spright The pure well-head of poesie did dwell."
From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 02, No. 10, August, 1858 by Various
But fayrest she, when so she doth display The gate with pearles and rubyes richly dight, Throgh which her words so wise do make their way, To beare the message of her gentle spright.
From The Poetical Works of Edmund Spenser, Volume 5 by Edmund Spenser
