choice spirit
Example Sentences
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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 Irving, Washington
He hobnobbed with prize-fighters, and was the choice spirit in the ethereal feasts of poets.
From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 11, No. 65, March, 1863 by Various
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 Carroll, Robert S.
I may be mistaken, but methinks that nature has given that choice dressing to a choice spirit.
From Unfettered A Novel by Griggs, Sutton E. (Sutton Elbert)
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 Seiss, Joseph A.
