spright

Example Sentences

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Then Abou Musab came forward and recited these verses: When wilt thou put away this dotage from thy spright?

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

But be thou of good cheer; for never shall my heart Forget thee      nor thy thought be absent from my spright.

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

Though God knows      thy greeting were sweet to my spright.

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

Long-while I sought to what I might compare Those powrefull eies which lighten my dark spright; Yet find I nought on earth, to which I dare Resemble th'ymage of their goodly light.

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

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.

From The Poetical Works of John Dryden, Volume 2 With Life, Critical Dissertation, and Explanatory Notes by Dryden, John