sprite
noun
(in folklore) an elf, fairy, or goblin.
spright
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a variation of
sprite.
Example Sentences
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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 Edmund Spenser
Sleep, baby, sleep: And do not bleat like sheep, Or else the shepherd's dog will bite My naughty, little, crying spright: Sleep, baby, sleep.
From Essays in the Study of Folk-Songs (1886) by Countess Evelyn Martinengo-Cesaresco
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 Edmund Spenser
Unthankfull then to God I should neglect All the whole world for one poor sorry wight, Whose pestilent eye into my heart project Would burn like poysonous Comet in my spright.
From Democritus Platonissans by Henry More
Then Abou Musab came forward and recited these verses: When wilt thou put away this dotage from thy spright?
From The Book of the Thousand Nights and One Night, Volume IV by John Payne
