spright

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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

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

What hellish spright ordain'd this hatefull feast That ends with horror thus and discontent?

From A Collection of Old English Plays, Volume 3 by Bullen, A. H. (Arthur Henry)

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 Spenser, Edmund

"That old Dan Geffrey, in whose gentle spright The pure well-head of poesie did dwell."

From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 02, No. 10, August, 1858 by Various