spright

Unthankfull then to God I should neglect All the whole world for one poor sorry wight, Whose pestilent eye into my heart project Would burn like poysonous Comet in my spright.

From Democritus Platonissans by Henry More

Subject thy dome to her Empyring spright, From whence thy Muse, and all the world, takes light.

From Spenser by R. W. (Richard William) Church

See he gathers up his spright And begins to hunt for light; Now he gapes and breaths again: How the blood runs to the vein, That erst was empty!

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

Then Abou Musab came forward and recited these verses: When wilt thou put away this dotage from thy spright?

From The Book of the Thousand Nights and One Night, Volume IV by John Payne

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