spright
Example Sentences
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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 William Ernest Henley
When these sad sights were overpast and gone, My spright was greatly moved in her rest, With inward ruth and deare affection, To see so great things by so small distrest.
From The Poetical Works of Edmund Spenser, Volume 5 by Edmund Spenser
So now unto solace I'll turn my heart, with forgetting, from thee And washing my hands of thy thought, blot despair for thee out of my spright.
From The Book of the Thousand Nights and One Night, Volume IV by John Payne
Though God knows thy greeting were sweet to my spright.
From The Book of the Thousand Nights and One Night, Volume IV by John Payne
"Stand back, saucy spright," cried one of the men; "you cannot pass here."
From Henry of Guise; (Vol. III of 3) or, The States of Blois by G. P. R. (George Payne Rainsford) James
