"Sprite" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... With a sister's instinct Hazel never stumbled, but seemed to get over every obstacle like some wood sprite ...
— The Motor Girls on a Tour • Margaret Penrose
... the firmament; His breath the rush of the breeze. Earth's loveliest sprite, the frost queen at night, Lures him ...
— Thoughts, Moods and Ideals: Crimes of Leisure • W.D. Lighthall
... words are general names for any kind of spirit, and correspond to the 'pouk' of Piers Ploughman. In Danish 'spog' means a joke, trick, or prank, and hence the character of Robin Goodfellow. In Iceland Puki is regarded as an evil sprite; and in the language of that country, 'at pukra' means both to make a murmuring noise and to steal clandestinely. The names of these spirits seem to have originated in their boisterous temper—'spuken,' Germ. to make ...
— Traditions of Lancashire, Volume 1 (of 2) • John Roby
... shall take its speechless flight; That sometime these bright stars, that now reply In sunlight to the sun, shall set in night; That warm conscious flesh shall perish quite, And all life's ruddy springs forget to flow; That thoughts shall cease, and the immortal sprite Be lapp'd in alien clay and laid below; It is not death to know this,—but to know That pious thoughts, which visit at new graves In tender pilgrimage, will cease to go So duly and so oft,—and when grass waves Over the past-away, there may be then No resurrection ...
— The Poetical Works of Thomas Hood • Thomas Hood
... we are? The sprite of a star, I lure thee above where the destinies bar My plumes their full play Till a ruddier ray Than my pale one announce there is withering away Some... Scatter the vision forever! And now, As of old, I am ...
— Dramatic Romances • Robert Browning
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