spright

Example Sentences

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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

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

To the Lord of all creatures, to God be the praise, Whilst yet      in the body abideth the spright!

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

We have also spright, impregnable, and other misspelt words, for which it is difficult to assign a reason.

From Notes and Queries, Number 212, November 19, 1853 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc. by Bell, George

O thou, the love of whom doth fill my heart and overflow, Even      when wine, with water mixed, fills up the brimming bowl, O thou for whom desire torments my body and my spright!

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