It is the verdict o' the court that we present you with the power schooner Maggie II free gratis, an' that you accept the same in the same friendly sperrit in which it is tendered.
I have been labourin' with Freddie in the sperrit of Christian industry, an' I believe that I have finally brought him to a realisin' sense of his sinfulness.
If it ain't no good to swear by, what do you suppose a sperrit would give for it?
That blessed nigger's sperritoughter go ashore, now we've come to this outlandish place, and leave us alone!
The skipper didn't see no sperrit as you thinks when he got mad this mornin'; it's all that cussed rum he took because he got round Cape Horn.
When they was gone, Mrs. Sperrit made up her mind as now was her chance to bring those children to time, once and for all.
Mrs. Sperrit is practical, and she's always been practical, and her cousin wasn't.
But Mrs. Sperrit is practical, and she believes in her Bible, and she thought as how the Lord had delivered them into her hands and set to work.
Why, her cousin went right to bed as soon as she got there, because she said as she knowed that Mrs. Sperrit was practical and could do everything better than she could.
Her cousin said she didn't care, so Mrs. Sperrit went to work on those six children.
She said she might as well, seeing as Mrs. Sperrit was there with the children.
Then she named the second girl Azile--which is Eliza spelt backwards--and Mrs. Sperrit says it was the spelling of Eliza backwards as first showed her how awful friendly her cousin was trying to get to be.
Then she named the second boy Sperrit, which was a little pointed, of course; and Mrs. Sperrit says if her cousin had been practical, she would certainly have thought that the Sperrits ought to have given the child something.
Well, Mrs. Sperrit has had an experience, and I guess no lost barn will ever lead her into looking up no more cousins after this.
Mrs. Sperritsays all she can say is as when a woman as isn't practical does go to bed, she's resigned to that degree that you wish you could blow her up with dynamite if only to see her move quick just once.
Mrs. Sperrit says a man that wears his tie crooked when he's young is the kind to keep shy of later.
Av it had been at night, we might have tried a reskey; but the sperrit ain't in 'em at all.
De sperrit were let out in de ole field, an' maybe it don't know whar to find the pusson it 'longs to.
Went out," said he, "on a splorin scursion, cos I was termined to try an skewer somethin to make a dinnah to keep up de sperritob dis yah party.
Hence the vally of a lofty sperritin the face of difficulties.
Will Mr. Ming's sperrit walk till he gits that button back?
But I wasn't well posted in the weak characters of shades, for I thought, of course, I could find my sperrit friend easy when night came.
You never saw a gladder smile or a more gratefuller look than that poor sperrit gave me.
Now, no man ever seen a sperrit with a shadow; well then, what's he doing with an echo to him, I should like to know?
Sperrit an' sense go far, but the haht gwine carry you froo.
Which a human can do it all better and save the expense of paying money to one of these here sperrit mediums that travels around and makes 'em perform.
Look, gentlemen; there arn't much sperrit left in him, for he's lying up against the side there as quiet as a mouse.
Yes, gen'lemen, I want to get him out and show black Mak the sperrit as he is afraid of.
A Romany sperrit likes to come up in the evenin' and smell the heather an' see the shinin' stars come out.
I told my congregation what de Sperrit done told me, and dem Niggers thought I was crazy.
Whilst I was in dat pulpit de Sperrit spoke to me and said: 'Dis town is gwine to be 'stroyed tomorrow; 'pare your folks.
We're waiting fur them feathers, and you'll git a coat yourself, if you don't show a little more of the sperrit of a gentleman!
Which is contrary to the sperrit of our institootions, as you have been warned more 'n oncet.
There's a dead maid's sperrit wakes i' each o' yon drear birds.
Women, it were the very living sperrit of Christ hisself I seed thar--the sperrit that returned love for hate, mercy for revilement, joy and life for curses and death.
Mrs. Sperrit had to come in an' be explained to, an' the worst of it was as Hiram couldn't be woke nohow.
Mrs. Sperrit pinned Hiram up from inside so his tear didn't show, and Lucy and he set side by side and looked like no one was ever goin' to ever be married again.
They was so awful tired that none of 'em woke till Mrs. Sperrit come at eleven next day to take 'em to the weddin'!
As shu I'm stan' here I see a sperrit in dem woods.
An evil sperrithas been doin' 'em a power o' harm an' I know that evil sperrit is you.
Why it raises the sperrit uv romance mighty high in me.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "sperrit" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
