spright

Example Sentences

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A fine young spright was Rudolph now, with jet-black hair and eyes like coals.

From The Fairies and the Christmas Child by Gask, Lilian

His chearefull wordes reviv'd her chearelesse spright, So forth they went, the Dwarfe them guiding ever right.

From Spenser's The Faerie Queene, Book I by Spenser, Edmund

His bulk itself’s pure genius, and he wears His avoirdupois with so much fire and spright    That, though the creature stands but five feet five,    You take him for the tallest He alive.

From Hawthorn and Lavender with Other Verses by Henley, William Ernest

But be thou of good cheer; for never shall my heart Forget thee      nor thy thought be absent from my spright.

From The Book of the Thousand Nights and One Night, Volume III by Payne, John

Hang up your bloody colours in the air, Up with your fights, and your nettings prepare; Your merry mates cheer, with a lusty bold spright, Now each man his brindice, and then to the fight.

From The works of John Dryden, now first collected in eighteen volumes. Volume 05 by Scott, Walter, Sir