- a variation of sprite.
spright
Example Sentences
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"Stand back, saucy spright," cried one of the men; "you cannot pass here."
From Henry of Guise; (Vol. III of 3) or, The States of Blois by James, G. P. R. (George Payne Rainsford)
See he gathers up his spright And begins to hunt for light; Now he gapes and breaths again: How the blood runs to the vein, That erst was empty!
From The Faithful Shepherdess The Works of Francis Beaumont and John Fletcher (Volume 2 of 10). by Beaumont, Francis
So now unto solace I'll turn my heart, with forgetting, from thee And washing my hands of thy thought, blot despair for thee out of my spright.
From The Book of the Thousand Nights and One Night, Volume IV by Payne, John
I should conjecture that the very spright that “the green sour ringlets makes Whereof the ewe not bites” had manufactured it of the dew fallen on said sour ringlets.
From Letters of John Keats to His Family and Friends by Keats, John
His bulk itself’s pure genius, and he wears His avoirdupois with so much fire and spright That, though the creature stands but five feet five, You take him for the tallest He alive.
From Hawthorn and Lavender with Other Verses by Henley, William Ernest
