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 Lilian Gask
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.
From The Poetical Works of John Dryden, Volume 2 With Life, Critical Dissertation, and Explanatory Notes by John Dryden
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 Henry More
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 Sir Walter Scott
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 John Keats
