spright
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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
When these sad sights were overpast and gone, My spright was greatly moved in her rest, With inward ruth and deare affection, To see so great things by so small distrest.
From The Poetical Works of Edmund Spenser, Volume 5 by Edmund Spenser
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.
From The Poetical Works of John Dryden, Volume 2 With Life, Critical Dissertation, and Explanatory Notes by John Dryden
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
His bulk itself’s pure genius, and he wears His avoirdupois with so much fire and spright That, though the creature stands but five feet five, You take him for the tallest He alive.
From Hawthorn and Lavender with Other Verses by William Ernest Henley
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