Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A Middle English form of
sparth .
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Examples
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"Beware how you challenge my Maid," said she at last, "for she fights but on horseback, with lance and sperthe, {20} and the Duc d'Alencon has seen her tilt at the ring, and has given her the best steed in his stables, whereon she shall soon lead her army to Orleans."
A Monk of Fife Andrew Lang 1878
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She smote on a knight's shield, her sword shivered in that stroke, she caught her steel sperthe into her hand, and struck and hewed amain, and there were empty saddles round her.
A Monk of Fife Andrew Lang 1878
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