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
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 Edmund Spenser
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
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
Rude scoffer of the seething outer strife, Unmeet to read her pure and simple spright, Deem, if thou wilt, such hours a waste of life, Empty of all delight!
From Rhyme? And Reason? by Lewis Carroll
