spiritlike

Example Sentences

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According to Hahnemann, the vigorous shaking transferred the "spiritlike" essence of the medicine to the solvent.

From Time Magazine Archive

Until the dry weeds seem more beautiful, More spiritlike than even summer's flowers.

From The Home Book of Verse — Volume 3 by Stevenson, Burton Egbert

Perhaps we should add here that Prometheus is, and probably always will be, a poem for the chosen few who can appreciate its peculiar spiritlike beauty.

From English Literature Its History and Its Significance for the Life of the English Speaking World by Long, William Joseph

But there were few indeed among all the kindred of earth, air, and water whose hunting was so savage and so ravenous as that of these slender and spiritlike beings.

From The Watchers of the Trails A Book of Animal Life by Roberts, Charles George Douglas, Sir

She had stretched out her spiritlike hands, but to draw them back again, in the fashion that fascinated and at the same time maddened him, once too often.

From The Dreamer A Romantic Rendering of the Life-Story of Edgar Allan Poe by Stanard, Mary Newton