spright
Example Sentences
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Rude scoffer of the seething outer strife, Unmeet to read her pure and simple spright, Deem, if thou wilt, such hours a waste of life, Empty of all delight!
From Rhyme? And Reason? by Lewis Carroll
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
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
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
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
