choice spirit
Example Sentences
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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
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 hobnobbed with prize-fighters, and was the choice spirit in the ethereal feasts of poets.
From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 11, No. 65, March, 1863 by Various
"And Shelby," queried the editor, "hasn't that choice spirit your pity too?"
From The Henchman by Luther, Mark Lee
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
