spright
Example Sentences
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Hereat the hardest stones were seen to bleed, And groans of buried ghosts the heavens did pierce: Where Homer's spright did tremble all for grief, And cursed the access of that celestial thief.
From Sir Walter Ralegh A Biography by W. (William) Stebbing
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
Rude spirits of the seething outer strife, Unmeet to read her pure and simple spright, Deem, if you list, such hours a waste of life, Empty of all delight!
From The Hunting of the Snark an Agony, in Eight Fits by Lewis Carroll
But first thou must a season fast and pray, Till from her bands the spright assoiled is, And have her strength recur'd from fraile infirmitis.
From Spenser's The Faerie Queene, Book I by Edmund Spenser
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
