Which preposition to use with sprite
There was a desperate sprite of banter in her eye when she made this confession, a sprite that leaped forth to be gay when I shrived her.
Here wrong's name is unheard; slander a monster is, Keep thy sprite from abuse, here no abuse doth haunt, What man grafts in a tree dissimulation.
" Meanwhile accept of these our daily rites, Which with my maidens I shall do to thee, Which is in songs to cheer our dying sprites With hymns of praises of thy memory.
At times she seemed rather an airy sprite than human, and never did she seek to make acquaintance with other children, but was always Hester's companion in her walks about the town.
All at once a dark figure glided out from another alley and snatched the sprite into its arms.
An airy little sprite In a billowy flood of lace, Which flutters in its flight In the galop's tripping grace.
Exclaiming want, and needy care and cark, Would make the mildest sprite to bite and bark.
Whose gentle sprite for Daphne's death doth turn Sweet lays of love to endless plaints of pity.