spright

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His chearefull wordes reviv'd her chearelesse spright, So forth they went, the Dwarfe them guiding ever right.

From Spenser's The Faerie Queene, Book I by Spenser, Edmund

Though God knows      thy greeting were sweet to my spright.

From The Book of the Thousand Nights and One Night, Volume IV by Payne, John

Rude spirits of the seething outer strife, Unmeet to read her pure and simple spright, Deem, if you list, such hours a waste of life, Empty of all delight!

From The Hunting of the Snark an Agony, in Eight Fits by Carroll, Lewis

What hellish spright ordain'd this hatefull feast That ends with horror thus and discontent?

From A Collection of Old English Plays, Volume 3 by Bullen, A. H. (Arthur Henry)

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