springs

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"I would, Sam," said the wild youth to his companion, "that I had some of my mother Macclesfield's gold, to enable us to eat of those cates and mingle with yon springalds and beaux."

From Burlesques by Thackeray, William Makepeace

Scott saw the real meaning of this nonsense, and read - With springalds, stones, and gads o' airn.

From Sir Walter Scott and the Border Minstrelsy by Lang, Andrew

Most honoured friend, and, as fortune soon will have it, most happy friend,--you know that my people are of a reckless, merry disposition, and one might say that they consisted of mere youthful springalds.

From Specimens of German Romance; Vol. II. Master Flea Selected and Translated from Various Authors by Hoffmann, Ernst Theodor Amadeus

Because all the world agrees to believe that such springalds as the Duca di Lodi can't take care of themselves.

From A Siren by Trollope, Thomas Adolphus

Old men's heads, it is true, are frequently white, though more frequently bald, and their blood is not so hot as when they were springalds.

From Recreations of Christopher North, Volume 2 by Wilson, John