spright
Example Sentences
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What hellish spright ordain'd this hatefull feast That ends with horror thus and discontent?
From A Collection of Old English Plays, Volume 3 by A. H. (Arthur Henry) Bullen
Hang up your bloody colours in the air, Up with your fights, and your nettings prepare; Your merry mates cheer, with a lusty bold spright, Now each man his brindice, and then to the fight.
From The works of John Dryden, now first collected in eighteen volumes. Volume 05 by Sir Walter Scott
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
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
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 Edmund Spenser
