spright
Example Sentences
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So now unto solace I'll turn my heart, with forgetting, from thee And washing my hands of thy thought, blot despair for thee out of my spright.
From The Book of the Thousand Nights and One Night, Volume IV by John Payne
But first thou must a season fast and pray, Till from her bands the spright assoiled is, And have her strength recur'd from fraile infirmitis.
From Spenser's The Faerie Queene, Book I by Edmund Spenser
Sleep, baby, sleep: And do not bleat like sheep, Or else the shepherd's dog will bite My naughty, little, crying spright: Sleep, baby, sleep.
From Essays in the Study of Folk-Songs (1886) by Countess Evelyn Martinengo-Cesaresco
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
O thou, the love of whom doth fill my heart and overflow, Even when wine, with water mixed, fills up the brimming bowl, O thou for whom desire torments my body and my spright!
From The Book of the Thousand Nights and One Night, Volume I by John Payne
