spright
Example Sentences
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I should conjecture that the very spright that “the green sour ringlets makes Whereof the ewe not bites” had manufactured it of the dew fallen on said sour ringlets.
From Letters of John Keats to His Family and Friends by John Keats
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
Rude spirits of the seething outer strife, Unmeet to read her pure and simple spright, Deem, if you list, such hours a waste of life, Empty of all delight!
From The Hunting of the Snark an Agony, in Eight Fits by Lewis Carroll
Ah, dear my lord, oh, cause me hope again, So I may comfort me my spright wayworn.
From The Decameron of Giovanni Boccaccio by John Payne
To the Lord of all creatures, to God be the praise, Whilst yet in the body abideth the spright!
From The Book of the Thousand Nights and One Night, Volume IV by John Payne
