spright

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I hope for the succour of Him in whose hand Is the Kingdom, the      Maker of body and spright.

From The Book of the Thousand Nights and One Night, Volume II by Payne, John

His bulk itself’s pure genius, and he wears His avoirdupois with so much fire and spright    That, though the creature stands but five feet five,    You take him for the tallest He alive.

From Hawthorn and Lavender with Other Verses by Henley, William Ernest

For love of her, my heart and entrails are a-fire And      sicknesses consume my body and my spright.

From The Book of the Thousand Nights and One Night, Volume IV by Payne, John

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

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