spright

Example Sentences

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Though God knows      thy greeting were sweet to my spright.

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

Unthankfull then to God I should neglect All the whole world for one poor sorry wight, Whose pestilent eye into my heart project Would burn like poysonous Comet in my spright.

From Democritus Platonissans by More, Henry

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 Payne, John

We have also spright, impregnable, and other misspelt words, for which it is difficult to assign a reason.

From Notes and Queries, Number 212, November 19, 1853 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc. by Bell, George

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