- a variation of sprite.
spright
Example Sentences
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He opened it and found these words written therein: 'The messenger brought me a promise of union and delight; But yet that he had mistaken 'twas constant in my spright.
From The Book of the Thousand Nights and One Night, Volume III by John Payne
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 A. H. (Arthur Henry) Bullen
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 John Keats
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 Lewis Carroll
Hereat the hardest stones were seen to bleed, And groans of buried ghosts the heavens did pierce: Where Homer's spright did tremble all for grief, And cursed the access of that celestial thief.
From Sir Walter Ralegh A Biography by W. (William) Stebbing
