Example Sentences

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According to Hahnemann, the vigorous shaking transferred the "spiritlike" essence of the medicine to the solvent.

From Time Magazine Archive

Perhaps we should add here that Prometheus is, and probably always will be, a poem for the chosen few who can appreciate its peculiar spiritlike beauty.

From English Literature Its History and Its Significance for the Life of the English Speaking World by Long, William Joseph

"Very well, then," he said, "the Erl-King addresses the child; Erl-King is a spirit, a ghost—so play this place in a spiritlike way, ghostly, if you will, but not ghastly with false notes!"

From Piano Playing: With Piano Questions Answered by Hofmann, Josef

Below her a river of early sunshine was flowing through the garden, and the far-away slopes were translucent green in their splendour of young day, with gauzy, uncertain mists lingering, spiritlike, in their intervales.

From Lucy Maud Montgomery Short Stories, 1902 to 1903 by Montgomery, L. M. (Lucy Maud)

Sprightly, spiritlike, refers to light, free, cheerful activity of mind and body.

From English Synonyms and Antonyms With Notes on the Correct Use of Prepositions by Fernald, James Champlin