choice spirit
Example Sentences
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The levity of some of the younger women in and about Trantridge was marked, and was perhaps symptomatic of the choice spirit who ruled The Slopes in that vicinity.
From Tess of the d'Urbervilles by Hardy, Thomas
I may be mistaken, but methinks that nature has given that choice dressing to a choice spirit.
From Unfettered A Novel by Griggs, Sutton E. (Sutton Elbert)
He was a man of a choice spirit; only he was always kept very low, and that made his life so burdensome to himself and so very troublesome to others.
From The Riches of Bunyan Selected from His Works by Bunyan, John
Father Kipling was, in every sense, a choice spirit: gentle, kindly, and of a most remarkably even temperament.
From The Americanization of Edward Bok : the autobiography of a Dutch boy fifty years after by Bok, Edward William
It seemed impossible—yet—and here his big charity spoke—all of the choice spirit of the girl cannot have been swallowed up in the sordidness of a selfish, old age.
From Our Nervous Friends — Illustrating the Mastery of Nervousness by Carroll, Robert S.
