choice spirit
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He was a man of a choice spirit; only he was always kept very low, and that made his life so burdensome to himself and so very troublesome to others.
From The Riches of Bunyan Selected from His Works by John Bunyan
He won no victories of war, but he was a choice spirit in creating the means by which some of the most valuable of such victories were achieved, and conducted those victories to permanent peace.
From Luther and the Reformation: The Life-Springs of Our Liberties by Joseph A. Seiss
"And Shelby," queried the editor, "hasn't that choice spirit your pity too?"
From The Henchman by Mark Lee Luther
It is no doubt, the production of some choice spirit who once frequented the Boar's Head.
From The Sketch-Book of Geoffrey Crayon by Washington Irving
It seemed impossible—yet—and here his big charity spoke—all of the choice spirit of the girl cannot have been swallowed up in the sordidness of a selfish, old age.
From Our Nervous Friends — Illustrating the Mastery of Nervousness by Robert S. Carroll
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