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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
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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
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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
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Whenso he counselled with his sprights encompassed round.
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Whenso he counselled with his sprights encompassed round.
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