40 collocations for spiriting

"Are you a warlock, Mr. Campbell, that you can spirit folk about the country at your pleasure?

Then comes by one of those sort of people who make it their business to spirit away little children, a trade chiefly practised where they found little children well dressed, and for bigger children, to sell them to the plantations.

In the heart's holy temple will seek with delight That spirit the Father approveth.

Felicia removed her mother's hat; Ken put her into the big chair and spirited away her bag.

The Norwegian horses are stout, stubby, and spirited little beasts.

He had enlisted as soon as the United States entered the war, and had chosen aviation as his branch of the service, since it offered his venture-venturesome, almost reckless, spirit a chance for action.

Up to this point I had neither seen nor heard anything of the Japanese in relation to this matter, but they now came on the scene, and I soon discovered that it was they who had engineered the whole opposition to the British officers getting suitable accommodation, and had spirited away the old commandant who had registered the carriages to me.

Two busts, fraught with every grace A Venus' and Apollo's face, He placed in view; resolved to please, Whoever sat, he drew from these, 30 From these corrected every feature, And spirited each awkward creature.

IX.But after the departure of the Liburnian fleet, Marcus Octavius sailed from Illyricum with what ships he had to Salona; and having spirited up the Dalmatians, and other barbarous nations, he drew Issa off from its connection with Caesar; but not being able to prevail with the council of Salona, either by promises or menaces, he resolved to storm the town.

And if it lay in my power, gods are my witness, Who e'r he be that took your sweet peace from you; I am not so old yet, nor want I spirit Dem.

Had Bainrothe been before me to spirit the doctor away by some feigned message of need, of distress, to which no inclemency of weather could close that benevolent medical ear?

" "You comes hyar from a great corp'ration thet in times gone by we thinks is public spirited an' enterprisin', which is a mistake.

The call was made, and the response of the country was most gratifying, surpassing in unanimity and spirit the most sanguine expectation.

" "Boy, it's that spirit Germany's roused, an' the best I can say is, God help her!...

In the positive side of the Kantian philosophythe spirit the law-giver of nature, the will the essence of spirit and the key to true realitywe find its kernel, that in it which is forever valid.

"Does a colonist at any time get sight of a Boshies-man, he takes fire immediately, and spirits up his horse and dogs, in order to hunt him with more ardour and fury than he would a wolf, or any other wild beast?

The Valencian potters of the eighteenth century had adorned these tiles with Berber and Christian galleys, birds from nearby Albufera, white-wigged hunters offering flowers to a peasant girl, fruits of all kinds, and spirited horsemen on steeds that were half the size of their bodies parading before houses and trees that scarcely reached to the knees of their prancing coursers.

Oaks, that the bark of a century covers, Feel ye the spell, as ye groan and sigh? Say,does her spirit that round you hovers Whisper of youth and love gone by? Windows are open,the pensive maiden Leans o'er the sill with a wistful sigh, Her heart with tender longings o'erladen, And a happy sadness, she knows not why.

He lifted his golden head above the snowy peaks, and spirited away the uncertain light of unfolding dawn by drawing the curtains of the purpling east, and sending floods of radiance upon the entire world.

When a group of returned stampeders came in, she sat down at a rough little faro-table, leaned her elbows on it, sipped the rest of the stuff in her tumbler through a straw, and in the shelter of her arms set the straw in a knot-hole near the table-leg, and spirited the bad liquor down under the board.

ABOUT, EDMOND, spirited French littérateur and journalist (1828-1885).

It is nothing more nor less than breeding from sound, serviceable, compact, and spirited Mexican or mustang mares.

Like a schoolboy trying to spirit away his bad marks he watched for the post so as to suppress the obnoxious sheets, but at last their venom seemed to poison the very air.

'He maketh spirits his messengers', (for our version'He maketh his angels spirits'is without a violent inversion senseless), this is a case in point for the use of the word, 'spirits', in the sense of incorporeal beings.

Why, then, is so much pains taken to spirit up the minds of the people against this my undertaking?

40 collocations for  spiriting