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 Robert S. Carroll
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
You read them: our choice spirit, our refin'd rare wit, 10 Suffenus, O no ditcher e'er appeared more rude, No looby coarser; such a shock, a change is there.
From The Poems and Fragments of Catullus by Robinson Ellis
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
Father Kipling was, in every sense, a choice spirit: gentle, kindly, and of a most remarkably even temperament.
From The Americanization of Edward Bok : the autobiography of a Dutch boy fifty years after by Edward William Bok
