choice spirit
Example Sentences
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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.
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
I am no choice spirit, no jolly companion; to raise a laugh is beyond me.
From Works of Lucian of Samosata — Volume 02 by Fowler, F. G. (Francis George)
There he was a mere cypher: here he was lord of the ascendant; the choice spirit, the dominant genius.
From Tales of a Traveller by Irving, Washington
Navailles looked round over his companions and sighed for the absence of a choice spirit.
From The Duke's Motto A Melodrama by McCarthy, Justin H. (Justin Huntly)
