But I know of a wood where the little elves andsprites and the delicate fairies dance in a ring in the moonlight, and I will tell you of what happens there at twelve o'clock on the first night of every year.
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.
She lashed her palfrey afresh as she recalled the words; they seemed to be again whispered into her ears, as if the sprites of the wood had heard them and repeated them to her shame and bewilderment.
But withal was Father Christopher troubled in his mind lest these strange sprites might be other than creatures who looked upon Albrecht with wonder and longing.
Truly thou art favored of heaven," Father Christopher said, "if the wood-sprites can do thee no harm.
The pair read together in Erna's few but well-loved books, and when the wildness of the storm-sprites kept them within doors they found in these and the talk to which what they read gave rise the means of passing many a happy hour.
He glanced about with an instinctive, cowardly desire to see whither he could flee if the other's rage should overleap all bounds, and he muttered a spell to summon the sprites of the wood.
Sprites of the bleste, and everich Seyncte ydedde, Poure owte youre pleasaunce on mie fadres hedde.
Sprites of the bleste, and everich Seyncte ydedde, Syke pleasures powre upon mie fadres hedde.
Or if the woman stoops and drinks water, one of the sprites will enter her through the mouth.
So when women of the Gnaritjbellan subclass wade into the water to gather lilies, little sprites swarm up their legs and are born as kangaroo children.
Unhappy the host of Leat Cuin, to have fallen by the sprites of Slain; Happy the reign of great Aed, and unhappy the loss of Flann.
Water-sprites and the little people of the wood cannot bear one another you know, I suppose, from the fairy-tales.
Water-sprites and dryads do not agree, I had to hear a while ago from your own mouth.
Among other local spritesmay be mentioned the kobolds or spirits of the mines.
Besides all friendly house-sprites and household divinities, there is one other in the secret, and silently triumphant at Anton's return, and that is the cousin.
The water sprites that inhabit it must be a dirty set.
As from your graves rise up, and walk like sprites To countenance this horror!
And that distill'd by magic sleights Shall raise such artificial sprites As by the strength of their illusion Shall draw him on to his confusion.
Almost crazed with grief he in vain besought the sprites to return her to him.
The next morning when old Sibo, the knight, inquired for his daughter, he was told that she had been seen early in the morning with two sprites going up the impassable crag across the river.
She waved her hand, And while her maidens shrank as if in dread, The finny sprites blew the shrill note of war, At which an hundred warriors gathered round.
Important Arrivals [Illustration] First entered a band of Ryls from the Happy Valley, all merry little sprites like fairy elves.
These are my Ryls," pointing to the little sprites squatting around him.
One gains nothing by attempting to shut out thesprites of the weather.
With huge delight, he was absorbing all the superstitions of the sea, and giving the steersman a gruesome crop of tales of knockers and gas sprites underground.
He could see the gas sprites himself an' give warnin' where men had better not go.
Because," answered Clem, with a smile, "canaries are as clever at seeing the gassprites as was the Belgian diviner that Otto talks about.
The north star and the Dipper grow bright, then indistinct, then revive and grow dim again, as the gentlesprites brush my eyelids tenderly with their downy wings and soothe me into sweet forgetfulness.
He was perhaps at his best among that race of sprites which his own imagination invented, creatures without a sense of responsibility, glad merely to be alive.
The playful little fellow on the clouds below St. Matthew's feet looks across at the sprites of the opposite pendentive.
The little sprites are attendants of the goddess, playing in a mimic hunt.
Neither angel nor human, they are rather sprites of elf-land.
Often priest or children, discovering their mistake, and touched by the agony of their victims, would hasten back to the stream and assure the green-toothed water sprites of future redemption, when they invariably resumed their happy strains.
We heard them say that it was a strange sort of isle, for sprites had come to the boat, to take off the sails and oars.
Then, as the question he asked and the answer he received were heard only by the elfin sprites dancing in the brook beside them, so we will leave it to those fairies to tell if they choose.
Perhaps the joy in their hearts added a new charm, for the ripples in the brook appeared like so many laughing water sprites dancing there in the silvery light.
Beau Brocade, "with the moon and stars to light us, a shepherd to play the tune, and the sprites that haunt the Heath for company!
Let all the ghouls and gnomes come running hither, let the stars pale with envy, let fairies and sprites clap their hands for joy, since one man in all this world was happier than all the spirits in heaven!
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "sprites" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
