spright
Example Sentences
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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 Henry More
Subject thy dome to her Empyring spright, From whence thy Muse, and all the world, takes light.
From Spenser by R. W. (Richard William) Church
"Stand back, saucy spright," cried one of the men; "you cannot pass here."
From Henry of Guise; (Vol. III of 3) or, The States of Blois by G. P. R. (George Payne Rainsford) James
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 John Payne
To the Lord of all creatures, to God be the praise, Whilst yet in the body abideth the spright!
From The Book of the Thousand Nights and One Night, Volume IV by John Payne
