"Sprite" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... is edged with white; To inch and rock the sea-mews fly; The fishers have heard the Water-Sprite, Whose screams forbode ...
— The Golden Treasury - Of the Best Songs and Lyrical Poems in the English Language • Various
... sprite, I'll promise you that," he answered, smiling; "and I am incapable of deceiving you, for I, ...
— Modeste Mignon • Honore de Balzac
... tower erects its battlements bravely; my Anecdotes of Painting thrive exceedingly: thanks to the gout, that has pinned me to my chair: think of Ariel the sprite in a ...
— The Letters of Horace Walpole Volume 3 • Horace Walpole
... The little sprite that ran along the upper edge of the court in a row, the star-figure, impressed me as making an unfortunate contrast with the stern angel, repeated in front of each of the two arches. My criticism brought out the reply that it was beautiful in itself ...
— The City of Domes • John D. Barry
... there once lived a Neck, or Water Sprite, who desired, above all things, to obtain a human soul. Now when the sun shone this Neck rose up and sat upon the waves and played upon his harp. And he played so sweetly that the winds stayed to listen to him, and the sun lingered in his setting, and the moon rose before her time. ...
— Old-Fashioned Fairy Tales • Juliana Horatia Gatty Ewing
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