choice spirit
Example Sentences
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"And Shelby," queried the editor, "hasn't that choice spirit your pity too?"
From The Henchman by Luther, Mark Lee
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)
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.
Navailles looked round over his companions and sighed for the absence of a choice spirit.
From The Duke's Motto A Melodrama by McCarthy, Justin H. (Justin Huntly)
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