spright

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"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 James, G. P. R. (George Payne Rainsford)

I should conjecture that the very spright that “the green sour ringlets makes Whereof the ewe not bites” had manufactured it of the dew fallen on said sour ringlets.

From Letters of John Keats to His Family and Friends by Keats, John

Those lamping eyes will deigne sometimes to look, And reade the sorrowes of my dying spright, And happy rymes! bath'd in the sacred brooke Of Helicon, whence she derived is.

From The Poetical Works of Edmund Spenser, Volume 5 by Spenser, Edmund

To the Lord of all creatures, to God be the praise, Whilst yet      in the body abideth the spright!

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

No trace remains in Sol's bright ray, Of boat or awful spright; For grief—or guilt conceived by day, Conspicuous is at night.

From The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 12, No. 329, August 30, 1828 by Various