child-spirit

It shrank away from Sarah, the child-spirit incandescent with a cool power far beyond anything that Alinor had sent her, standing between it and its prey like an avenging angel.

Omnibus Lackey, Mercedes 1993

No one with anything of the child-spirit can fail to be touched by the charm of the Christmas crib.

Christmas in Ritual and Tradition, Christian and Pagan Clement A. Miles

It is the child-spirit that finds life's golden gates, and that finds them all ajar.

My Daily Meditation for the Circling Year John Henry Jowett

Wäinämöinen, the culture-hero of the Finns, whom the _Kalevala_ has immortalized, we find some striking tributes to the child-spirit.

The Child and Childhood in Folk-Thought Studies of the Activities and Influences of the Child Among Primitive Peoples, Their Analogues and Survivals in the Civilization of To-Day Alexander F. Chamberlain

And, though some stage children may become prematurely wise, in the depths of their souls, they must preserve, fresh and lovely, the child-spirit, the secret glory shared by all children.

Nights in London Thomas Burke 1915

Written for children, and in such a fine heroic child-spirit as to be too young and too old for nobody.

The Letters of Robert Browning and Elizabeth Barrett Barrett Browning, Robert, 1812-1889 1898

For the very essence of amusement is the child-spirit.

As a Matter of Course Annie Payson Call 1896

The condition of entrance into the spiritual kingdom is to possess the child-spirit -- that state of mind combining at once the profoundest helplessness with the most artless feeling of dependence.

Beautiful Thoughts Henry Drummond 1874

For instance, the moment you assume that relation to Christ you begin to know what the _child-spirit_ is.

The Greatest Thing In the World and Other Addresses Henry Drummond 1874

The condition of entrance into the spiritual kingdom is to possess the child-spirit -- that state of mind combining at once the profoundest helplessness with the most artless feeling of dependence.

Natural Law in the Spiritual World Henry Drummond 1874