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
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
Dined, o’er our claret, we talk of the merit, Of every choice spirit that rode in the run.
From Riding Recollections, 5th ed. by Whyte-Melville, G. J. (George John)
You read them: our choice spirit, our refin'd rare wit, 10 Suffenus, O no ditcher e'er appeared more rude, No looby coarser; such a shock, a change is there.
From The Poems and Fragments of Catullus by Ellis, Robinson
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
