spright

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No trace remains in Sol's bright ray, Of boat or awful spright; For grief—or guilt conceived by day, Conspicuous is at night.

From The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 12, No. 329, August 30, 1828 by Various

A fine young spright was Rudolph now, with jet-black hair and eyes like coals.

From The Fairies and the Christmas Child by Gask, Lilian

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

But fayrest she, when so she doth display The gate with pearles and rubyes richly dight, Throgh which her words so wise do make their way, To beare the message of her gentle spright.

From The Poetical Works of Edmund Spenser, Volume 5 by Spenser, Edmund

Those lamping eyes will deigne sometimes to look, And reade the sorrowes of my dying spright, And happy rymes! bath'd in the sacred brooke Of Helicon, whence she derived is.

From The Poetical Works of Edmund Spenser, Volume 5 by Spenser, Edmund