spright

Example Sentences

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Subject thy dome to her Empyring spright, From whence thy Muse, and all the world, takes light.

From Spenser by Church, R. W. (Richard William)

This is no common man with whom I fight, And if he be, he is of wond'rous spright.

From A Select Collection of Old English Plays, Volume 7 by Various

But fayrest she, when so she doth display The gate with pearles and rubyes richly dight, Throgh which her words so wise do make their way, To beare the message of her gentle spright.

From The Poetical Works of Edmund Spenser, Volume 5 by Spenser, Edmund

A fine young spright was Rudolph now, with jet-black hair and eyes like coals.

From The Fairies and the Christmas Child by Gask, Lilian

So now unto solace I'll turn my heart, with forgetting, from      thee And washing my hands of thy thought, blot despair for      thee out of my spright.

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