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- noun Plural form of
spright .
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Examples
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In like manner as in Island, so in the desert sands of 苂ypt, 苩hiopia, and India, where the sunne is hot, the very same apparitions, the same sprights are wont to delude wayfaring men.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003
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This place of Cardane implieth these two things, namely that apparitions of sprights are not proper to Island alone
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This place of Cardane implieth these two things, namely that apparitions of sprights are not proper to Island alone
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003
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In like manner as in Island, so in the desert sands of Ægypt, Æthiopia, and India, where the sunne is hot, the very same apparitions, the same sprights are wont to delude wayfaring men.
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_The ideas of goblins and sprights have really no more to do with darkness than light: Yet let but
The Coverley Papers Various
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Crossjay Patterne under her roof; the son of the lieutenant, now captain, of Marines; a boy of twelve with the sprights of twelve boys in him, for whose board and lodgement Vernon provided by arrangement with her father.
Complete Project Gutenberg Works of George Meredith George Meredith 1868
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Crossjay Patterne under her roof; the son of the lieutenant, now captain, of Marines; a boy of twelve with the sprights of twelve boys in him, for whose board and lodgement Vernon provided by arrangement with her father.
The Egoist George Meredith 1868
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But they also believed, that all nature was full of other invisible powers: fairies, goblins, elves, sprights; beings stronger and mightier than men, but much inferior to the celestial natures who surround the throne of God.
Hume (English Men of Letters Series) Thomas Henry Huxley 1860
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Whenso he counselled with his sprights encompassed round.
The Age of Chivalry Thomas Bulfinch 1831
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Whenso he counselled with his sprights encompassed round.
The Age of Fable Thomas Bulfinch 1831
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