| 单词 | sprites |
| 例句 | In the world were also dwarfs—ugly creatures, but masterly craftsmen, who lived under the earth; and elves, lovely sprites, who tended the flowers and streams. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z On their backs are figures representing the arts, figures that look like water sprites. From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z The trees are lit with tiny sprites, and I see a laughing Oak racing through them, pursued by Vivi and Taryn and—oh hell—Locke. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z I run toward the sound, heart in my mouth, only to find Vivi in her room, chasing a cloud of sprites. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z She knew plenty about this forest, knew that the denizens of this place had once been faeries: gnomes, sprites, nymphs, goblins, more names than anyone could count or remember. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z “If I were a male—one of your precious sprites—we wouldn’t even be having this conversation.” Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z Hidden underneath all of those junk sprites and garbled graphics were nine more dots, worth ten points each. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z Memo: Remind the sprites to watch their language. Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z Now I stand in front of the polished wood doors, lit by two lamps of trapped sprites who fly in desperate circles. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z The greenwitches grumbled in response, and some insisted that they had run into klippes at twilight, or seen sprites slipping among the shadows of the Wood at Midsummer. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z Airborne sprites jammed the avenue like stones in a bottle. Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z She bends down and extracts a strip of pictures, only gently chewed by sprites. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z Overhead, I hear the trilling of birds calling to one another as they roost for the night and see glowing lights kindle in hollow knotholes as sprites come awake. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z His thoughts were all of water monsters, of giant serpents, of demons, kelpies, and sprites... Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z The sprites had turned the matchbooks into beds and tables, shredded all the paper, and ripped out the centers of the books to nest inside. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z “One of our best sprites was picking his nose at the time. Three days on the critical list.” Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z Around the fountain, sculptures hid like tree sprites under the topiaries—cupids playing flutes and tambourines, or ladies dancing in their rain-worn stone gowns next to the huge pots of orange trees. What the Night Sings 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z When it tries for lightness of image, with the appearances of fairyland sprites, the creatures are wan, unbeguiling and poorly integrated into the surrounding flora. REVIEW: Maleficent: Sympathy for the Rebel 2014-05-29T04:00:00Z Slate: The Internet can either be a beautiful meadow for creative sprites to dance around in or a garbage dump for people with bad manners to spew their angst. Round Table: Four self-possessed voices from Young Hollywood 2014-11-14T05:00:00Z Children can also hear stories about the resident sprites and at 11 a.m. enjoy the spell cast by the music of the Metropolitan Four, a flute quartet. Spare Times for Children for Oct. 17-23 2014-10-16T04:00:00Z The coastal setting, the Gothic manse, the wind-lashed coast of ancient times with the sprites all but dancing about — this was not Hitchcock’s métier. "Rebecca" is what you get if you ask Alfred Hitchcock to manage up while crafting gothic drama 2017-09-03T04:00:00Z Think instead of one of the senses-stroking, sumptuous banquets or parades of sprites and goddesses that he summons as evanescent home entertainment. Review: ‘The Tempest’ Stars Sam Waterston and the Weather at Delacorte Theater 2015-06-16T04:00:00Z It’s an odd collision of styles – German high romanticism meets Hollywood glitz – but Hal Mohr’s cinematography is astonishing, a surreal visual fantasy of dancing sprites and flying unicorns. The best Shakespeare films – ranked! 2019-02-08T05:00:00Z Four Botticellian wood sprites, who could also sing divinely, led the promenade performance from tree to tree. Opera Holland Park: Francesca da Rimini, Fantastic Mr Fox; BBC Proms 24 & 25 2010-08-07T23:05:00Z Move the digital clouds on Pearson’s “Hidden Iceland” and see, in their shadows, the giants and sprites and Viking ships just beneath that country’s peaks and fjords. Here Comes Hilda 2016-06-15T04:00:00Z “Along the way, the oddball trio will encounter ogres, sprites, harpies, imps, trolls, walruses and lots of human fools.” Disenchantment: new details released on Simpsons creator's first show in 20 years 2018-05-23T04:00:00Z Yeats had in mind the spirits and sprites, the elves and fairies, the Fair Folk, imps and goblins; those creatures seen only by children, seers and healers – and poets, of course. Suddenly in the Depths of the Forest by Amos Oz | Book review 2010-04-02T23:05:00Z Maybe sprites and faeries conjured up the role from youthful hours spent watching my father’s community theater rehearsals in our hometown, Anchorage, Ky. When a Corporate Picnic Plus Shakespeare Is Anything but Routine 2020-07-16T04:00:00Z The sprites dance, too, in exuberant patterns devised by Matthew Gardiner, to Jenny Giering’s richly emotional score. Ethan McSweeny’s “Tempest” casts a bright, uplifting spell 2014-12-09T05:00:00Z A chorus of sprites – who on occasion resemble ministering nurses in a sanatorium – are a nice touch. The Tempest – review 2012-08-30T11:05:05Z Tokolosh the band, from Manchester, do not, as far as we know, include in their lineup any malevolent sprites, but they have mischievously made it rather difficult for us to pigeonhole their sound. New band of the day: Tokolosh (No 1,487) 2013-04-08T16:06:47Z According to a statement from Netflix, there will be “ogres, sprites, harpies, imps, trolls, walruses and lots of human fools.” Matt Groening Is Creating a New Show for Netflix 2017-07-25T04:00:00Z The sprites behind the schemes could come across as craven; an online crew of viral marketers referred to non-entrepreneurial peers as “peasants.” Our Never-Ending ‘Scam Season’ 2019-01-30T05:00:00Z Angelina Jolie plays Maleficent, a winged fairy who watches over a peaceful realm of walking trees, friendly bog creatures, and gossipy sprites. MOVIE REVIEW: ‘Maleficent’ 2014-05-29T04:00:00Z Pandora's box had been opened, and all the sprites were flying out. Jon Savage on song: The Dovers open their Third Eye 2010-10-04T12:55:00Z Her near life-size ceramic figures of animals, sprites and fairy-tale heroines in moments of frozen intimacy are prickly and emotional in a way that’s hard to get over. Upstate Art Weekend Is Bigger Than It’s Ever Been 2023-07-20T04:00:00Z The museum is designed to recreate the essence of the magic worlds found in many of Studio Ghibli’s films, with forest animals and sprites tucked away and waiting to be discovered by eagle-eyed visitors. 10 of the best film studio tours around the world 2016-02-26T05:00:00Z The show’s makers also used crowd sprites, in which actors were filmed individually on green screens and then arranged to appear as part of the crowd. Digital Replicas, a Fear of Striking Actors, Already Fill Screens 2023-08-04T04:00:00Z “What is it that she’s doing or able to do that captivates people? I’ve started to think about sprites — she turns herself into a mythological creature.” Eiko Steps Away From One Dance Partner, to Take on Many More 2016-02-10T05:00:00Z The origins of the idea of Indian sacred geography seems to lie in India's ancient pre-Vedic religions where veneration was given to sprites known as nagas or yakshas. India: A Sacred Geography by Diana L Eck – review 2012-07-27T07:00:02Z The toyshops of Heidelberg, their wares clearly cobbled together by wood sprites with tiny hammers, begged for a child’s awed gasps. On a Family Road Trip Through Germany: Fairy Tales, Castles and Cuckoo Clocks 2018-10-29T04:00:00Z The team will take part in a series of misadventures where they will encounter “ogres, sprites, harpies, imps, trolls, walruses, and lots of human fools.” The creator of “The Simpsons” is bringing his talents to Netflix 2017-07-25T04:00:00Z After too many months ogling screens in my apartment, there was a surreal thrill to finally seeing people materialize before me as shipwrecked royals and island sprites. Fall Preview: The Thrill is Back. So Is the Anxiety. 2021-09-17T04:00:00Z Bring on the talking creatures, the derelict worlds, the crazy machines, the angels, the monsters and the sprites! Gob's Grief by Chris Adrian – review 2013-01-31T08:01:01Z Which shrewd and knavish sprites devised the Faerie Kebabs, each one a toothpick jammed into an olive, a mushroom and a dried apricot? At These High-End Dinner Theaters, Classics Come With Crudités 2019-08-04T04:00:00Z The siblings’ imaginations soon run riot as they discover any number of creatures — including “soot sprites” resembling dancing particles of dust — that the adults around them can’t see. A Studio Ghibli Classic Comes to the London Stage 2022-11-03T04:00:00Z The terse exchanges, the sly banter, even the lighthearted quips dance over the mundane drudgery of workplace interactions like mean-spirited sprites. "Mad Men": Stillbirth of the American dream 2010-07-17T23:01:00Z We stopped and meandered along the recommended 2.4-mile Drury-Chaney Grove trail, one of several hiking options, moving like sprites around standing and fallen redwoods, navigating through emerald carpets of grand sword ferns and flowering sorrel. Airstream trailer stays add retro glam to a road trip down the Pacific Coast 2021-07-01T04:00:00Z Folk singer Sam Lee dances like a man possessed, in neon orange trousers, and describes a song in which a man blames catching the clap on naughty water sprites. The Big Chill 2011-08-07T11:53:31Z There are heavyweight presences – leaders, intellectuals, warriors – alongside the flimsiest sprites. Geoffrey Farmer: The Surgeon and the Photographer; Marcel Dzama: Puppets, Pawns and Prophets – review 2013-04-06T23:05:12Z Lust, it seems, drives everybody mad, mortals and sprites alike. ArtsBeat: London Journal: Shakespeare’s Liars and Lovers 2013-07-05T15:47:54Z The setting suits Martin, who exudes a kind of wry wood sprite energy, if wood sprites wore black T-shirts and khakis. Need a little optimism? Mae Martin has some for you in the Netflix comedy special 'SAP' 2023-06-20T04:00:00Z Likewise, Spergel singled out sprites—mysterious sprawling flashes of light that commercial pilots have reported seeing above intense thunderstorms. Bad Data, Not Aliens, May Be behind UFO Surge, NASA Team Says 2023-06-09T04:00:00Z Scientists can also use the crowdsourced power of everyday people looking at the sky to better understand other known-but-rare atmospheric phenomena, of which there are plenty, such as red sprites and hole-punch clouds. NASA’s UFO Study Isn’t Really Looking for Space Aliens 2022-08-15T04:00:00Z But the developers weren’t as limited when it came to how much they could put on screen and weren’t forced to do things like reuse animations or character sprites in the interest of saving memory. How Shredder’s Revenge captures the essence of classic TMNT arcade games 2022-06-18T04:00:00Z It is a delightfully weird film, with dust sprites and forest creatures and something called a Cat Bus. Perspective | We’re eagerly anticipating our daffodils — if they survive our dog, that is 2022-03-13T05:00:00Z It’s the kind of arcade game that lures you in: big sprites, bright colors, inventive worlds, a bubbly soundtrack. Clockwork Aquario brings a long-lost arcade game back to life 2021-12-17T05:00:00Z Early on, to some extent, sprites were simply dismissed as illusory before being found as authentic, albeit very strange. Bad Data, Not Aliens, May Be behind UFO Surge, NASA Team Says 2023-06-09T04:00:00Z The monochrome look of the original Game Boy is crisp and clear, but it especially shines when you’re playing color games where you can really see the sprites pop. Analogue Pocket review: Game Boy games have never looked so good 2021-12-13T05:00:00Z Jack teams up with a team of elves, fairies, pixies and sprites to infiltrate the bowels of the wicked great tree of life for a final confrontation with the devilish Lord. Blu-ray movie review: ‘Legend: Limited Edition’ 2021-10-02T04:00:00Z Players round up a group of helper characters, in this case forest sprites, and call on them to clear paths, carry items or sometimes battle an evil creature until it helpfully disappears. A love letter to cozy games, the gentle game movement we need right now 2021-07-01T04:00:00Z For example, there are eight hidden 8-bit sprites that appear on the walls when you activate a switch, but the only one I found was Peach. Super Nintendo World is sensory overload 2021-03-19T04:00:00Z I was transfixed as a 5-year-old at the relaxed lifestyle of the tiny digital sprites that lived in our basement desktop. Reality TV meets video games ... on Facebook? A new social experiment 2020-12-02T05:00:00Z In English folklore, sprites are supernatural quick-witted characters. NASA's Juno spacecraft discovers that sprites haunt Jupiter’s atmosphere 2020-10-30T04:00:00Z To imagine that rejecting the amendment, and leaving redistricting in the hands of the legislature, would produce fairer and more balanced maps is to believe in leprechauns and forest sprites. Opinion | Virginians can fight gerrymandering by voting yes on Amendment No. 1 2020-09-27T04:00:00Z Deakin’s book begins with an ecstatic moat swim in summer rain, amid “water sprites springing up on tiptoe like bright pins over the surface.” The Subversive Joy of Cold-Water Swimming 2020-01-20T05:00:00Z Bicyclists and an actor’s troupe enter a 19th-century Tuscan forest and fall under the spell of sprites. Movies on TV this week: Sunday, Oct. 27, 2019 2019-10-25T04:00:00Z Primal Daoist reverence for nature emerges, while up close they evoke ancient pictograms of sprites, dancers, warriors and unexplained abstract signs. Review: LACMA’s ‘Art of Korean Writing’ reveals the brilliance in each brushstroke 2019-06-29T04:00:00Z Scientists long suspected that sprites and elves occurred on Jupiter. NASA's Juno spacecraft discovers that sprites haunt Jupiter’s atmosphere 2020-10-30T04:00:00Z In the upper atmosphere, lightning sprites flashed above thunderheads, vertical columns of crimson whose lifespans were less than the human eye can comprehend. A billion dots of light 2019-04-09T04:00:00Z Isaac Pareto: The Conjurer would do stuff like replace all the tree sprites with laser cannons, because it said weapons had “stronger engagement” than forests. The rise and fall of a super-intelligent, self-aware Facebook game 2019-01-29T05:00:00Z “The lines and fills he played inside the regular country tunes were like smoke and magic, wafting in and out of the soundscape like surreptitious sprites.” Ex-Monkee Michael Nesmith revisits topical, cult 1972 album with latest tour 2019-01-20T05:00:00Z They look like cheerful, glittery sprites, eager to accompany us on a journey. Review: Raúl de Nieves' bedazzled mosaics and fantastical little friends at Freedman Fitzpatrick - Los Angeles Times 2018-10-29T04:00:00Z Now in need of names, the phenomena were christened sprites and elves because of their fleeting, mysterious nature. Hunting mystery lightning from space 2018-04-06T04:00:00Z The shelf is no longer good enough as parents craft elaborate scenarios for the wandering Yuletide sprites. Can you find all the Santas in this illustration? Scanlon described the untitled film as an adventure set in a suburban fantasy world without humans populated by elves, sprites, unicorns and other creatures that mixes the magical with the mundane. All the intel on Disney and Pixar's new slate of animated films (now with more unicorns) 2017-07-14T04:00:00Z The lightning sprites were seen as fleeting flashes of brilliant red light above the clouds. Rare, Colorful Lightning Sprites Dance Over Hurricane 2016-10-03T04:00:00Z In fourth grade, he was in approximately the same place as the little sprites with their hands up. A New York School Where Students Learn to Read by Sculpting Words 2016-09-22T04:00:00Z But it is possible to spot sprites elsewhere. Hunting mystery lightning from space 2018-04-06T04:00:00Z “In Germany, kobolds are house sprites that brewed in the cellar at night,” he said recently. Bend brewing boom includes nanobrewers 2016-02-06T05:00:00Z Ireland is known for its fairy tales of leprechauns and sprites, but it turns out there's something even stranger hiding out in the mists—bog bodies. Mummies Around the World—Dried, Smoked, or Thrown in a Bog 2016-01-18T05:00:00Z The rare atmospheric phenomena, known as lighting sprites, were photographed by an observer about 400 miles southwest of Puerto Rico. Rare, Colorful Lightning Sprites Dance Over Hurricane 2016-10-03T04:00:00Z What is unusual, however, is seeing lightning sprites, which were observed on August 10th by astronauts aboard the space station. Six amazing sights that look even better from the ISS 2015-08-29T04:00:00Z This will allow the international team of researchers, for many of whom this is the culmination of decades of work, to determine where in the cloud sprites or jets originate. Hunting mystery lightning from space 2018-04-06T04:00:00Z This adds a wide variety of things from re-imagined sprites and backgrounds to new features and some new story and item content the fans of the game crave. 'Terraria' 1.3 Update Makes Multi-Player Easy 2015-07-01T04:00:00Z The sprites don’t just manage their individual emotions, but they also embody them. MOVIE REVIEW: ‘Inside Out’ 2015-06-18T04:00:00Z In fact, evidence of sprites is so rare, the phenomenon was thought to be a myth until it was photographed by a pilot in 1989. Rare, Colorful Lightning Sprites Dance Over Hurricane 2016-10-03T04:00:00Z Look at this boss character below, for instance, which used rotating, overlapping sprites to simulate a 3D effect: Three of the best Sega Genesis games ever are coming to Nintendo 3DS in 3D 2015-04-14T04:00:00Z While elves are mainly spotted over warm ocean waters, sprites tend to occur over land. Hunting mystery lightning from space 2018-04-06T04:00:00Z Before Yoshida closed the brief announcement, he remarked that “Enthusiasm from developers reminds me of early days of game development, going from 2D sprites to 3D graphics in 1994 on the original PlayStation.” Sony's Project Morpheus Boasts 120Hz Refresh Rate, Launches First Half Of 2016 2015-03-03T05:00:00Z It most closely resembles a Greek tragedy, with its chorus of six sprites, swells of elation and agony, and its dash of melodrama. Courtney Love Stars in an Avant-Garde Opera See another view of the sprites over Matthew. Rare, Colorful Lightning Sprites Dance Over Hurricane 2016-10-03T04:00:00Z Introducing a sprig of holly into the home allowed a homeowner to accommodate these unpredictable sprites, who occasionally meddled in human affairs. Holly Trees Are Resilient, and a Bit Mystical 2014-12-26T05:00:00Z The sprites were spotted by meteor observers, who had cameras trained on the sky to follow the trails of shooting stars. Hunting mystery lightning from space 2018-04-06T04:00:00Z To avoid implying that anyone knew their physical mechanisms, the strange lights were given the fanciful name sprites, inspired by the mysterious and fleeting characters populating Shakespeare’s "The Tempest." On the Hunt for a Sprite on a Midsummer’s Night 2014-09-28T04:00:00Z "For Passage and Gravitation, I actually experimented with various resolutions for the characters," says Rohrer, who tried sprites of 8 x 8, 16 x 16, and 32 x 32 pixels. Pixel art games aren't retro, they're the future 2014-07-03T04:00:00Z Still, the precise details of how sprites form is unknown. Rare, Colorful Lightning Sprites Dance Over Hurricane 2016-10-03T04:00:00Z The result is beautifully detailed backgrounds, larger sprites with wonderful animation, and some advanced visual techniques like parallax scrolling that add some depth to the levels. 'Shovel Knight' is a long-lost NES classic without the cartridge 2014-06-26T04:00:00Z They are the most common TLE, thought to occur twice as often as sprites. Hunting mystery lightning from space 2018-04-06T04:00:00Z One way to do this is to combine images into sprites. Image Performance 2014-01-22T11:00:00Z Sprinkled throughout are whimsical garden scenes that use trompe l’oeil to conjure up a flower box populated by sprites, songbirds perched on a trellis and other vignettes. As Prisoner, the Artist in Skakel Came Out 2013-12-12T21:32:35Z The visuals are raw, the sounds discordant; these are menageries of stuttering sprites and strange effects. Outsider art: Michael Brough on creating strange elegant games alone 2013-07-05T12:15:46Z The little sprites are very nippy and light. Healey sports car creator remembered 2013-05-12T07:01:21Z To develop a prototype you do not need god knows how many top notch sprites. Press Start: Batman Arkham Origins multiplayer, BBC transmedia plans and more 2013-04-24T08:01:00Z So I found every instance of those sprites and replaced them with the Pauline “white” color. Feminist hero dad hacks Donkey Kong for daughter 2013-03-11T18:54:00Z Most work on sprites—fan-shaped, fireworklike flashes that last no more than a few millisecond—hasn't noted such emissions, possibly because researchers weren't looking for them. ScienceShot: Broadcast From On High 2012-12-20T17:15:00Z Kit Juckes, global strategist at Société Générale, turns to Shakespeare to explain the mood in the Square Mile today: "A sad tale's best for winter: I have one of sprites and goblins". Autumn statement 2012 - live coverage of George Osborne's speech 2012-12-05T14:46:12Z The announcer yet again delighted in the sight of the blond sprites at the front. Too Fast, Too Soon? Young Endurance Runners Draw Cheers and Concerns 2012-11-05T20:30:06Z The old 2D sprites are replaced with a full 3-d world, and yet the game still runs smoother than some old Zynga games. Farmville 2: First Impressions 2012-09-06T16:14:46Z When I woke up, I finished off the sprites, then swapped the palettes. Feminist hero dad hacks Donkey Kong for daughter 2013-03-11T18:54:00Z From that instant, the Poles rushed forward like sprites. Euro 2012: Poland 1, Russia 1: Poland Ties Russia, Capping a Violent Night 2012-06-12T23:23:44Z Characters have moved from sprites to polygons, to eerily lifelike motion-capture performances – but there's no chance of Mario making a dimensional leap into realism. Can the Wii U and Super Mario come to the rescue of console gaming? 2012-06-05T13:18:44Z Matters seemed to be arranged conveniently; as, indeed, they were, if sprites were laying snares for Robert Armathwaite's feet. The House 'Round the Corner 2012-04-14T02:00:22.063Z Where are the stage mechanists who assisted George Conquest, that unique representative of sprites and gnomes, who achieved success by "leaps and bounds?" Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 105 October 7, 1893 2012-04-03T02:00:30.460Z Little sprites they seemed as they chased the refluent wave for their food, sometimes overtaken and borne off their feet by the glancing surf. Nooks and Corners of the New England Coast 2012-02-22T03:00:25.113Z If she refused to countenance the tub and its attendant sprites, she might be withholding from the sick a saving and certain cure. The Maid of Honour, Vol. 1 (of 3) A Tale of the Dark Days of France 2012-02-15T03:00:38.533Z Sour sprites, Moaning and chuckling, What have you hidden from me? Goblins and Pagodas 2012-02-14T03:00:24.740Z For now they reach the hill Whence those wild notes are heard; The dwarfish fiends stand still, The hills their sides uprear'd, And made a mighty void, Whence fiercer sprites glower'd grim. Tales From the 'Phantasus', etc. of Ludwig Tieck 2012-02-13T03:00:19.620Z It gave us ghosts and goblins, spooks and sprites, and little devils that swarmed in the bodies of men, and it gave us hell where the souls of men will roast in eternal flames. The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll, Vol. 4 (of 12) Dresden Edition?Lectures 2012-02-11T03:03:46.253Z Like fairy sprites, a thousand birds Glance by on golden wing, Birds lovelier than the lovely hues Of the bloom wherein they sing. The Isle of Palms and Other Poems 2012-02-04T03:00:15.103Z Nature has probably told the winter chippies that rose hips are no good—spring decorations must not be pilfered by the snow sprites. Minstrel Weather 2012-01-24T03:00:25.640Z The Jesuits who had such things, and talked in such learned language could surely be nothing less than hobgoblins, unnatural sprites and wicked spirits. The War Upon Religion Being an Account of the Rise and Progress of Anti-christianism in Europe 2011-12-24T03:07:55.507Z Hard by, a towering foxglove leans into space, bearing two joyous sprites. George Cruikshank 2011-12-18T03:00:20.137Z But the presence of water here makes it necessary for visitors to sit upon the shoulders of two or three shaggy and uncleanly-looking sprites. From the Oak to the Olive A Plain record of a Pleasant Journey 2011-11-26T03:00:12.337Z Then of their own sweet Isle of Palms, Full many a lovely lay He sung;—and of two happy sprites Who live and revel in delights For ever, night and day. The Isle of Palms and Other Poems 2012-02-04T03:00:15.103Z These sprites could change themselves into any form, and at death the individual was delivered up to judgment by these companions, who testified to his actions during life. Ancient Faiths And Modern A Dissertation upon Worships, Legends and Divinities 2011-11-24T03:00:37.917Z It might have been the same wind sprites that carry the seeds of the laurel and the pine so far up the mountain flanks. The Adventures of a Grain of Dust 2011-11-22T03:00:12.257Z They might have been humans, but to the boys they looked like nothing more or less than water sprites. The Motor Girls at Lookout Beach In Quest of the Runaways 2011-11-04T02:00:22.360Z Foot it featly here and there, And sweet sprites the burthen bear. Dryden's Works Vol. 3 (of 18) Sir Martin Mar-All; The Tempest; An Evening's Love; Tyrannic Love 2011-10-08T02:00:22.420Z Waving her wand, she summoned her “gladsome sprites,” and next moment the Fairy Ring was thronged with dancing Elves who wore red caps and silver shoes, with bright green mantles buttoned with bobs of silk. The Fairies and the Christmas Child 2011-09-29T02:00:12.583Z It would be as useless to discuss, at this point, the actuality of what are called "spectres," as of other things named fairies, pixies, gnomes, or sprites. Ancient Faiths And Modern A Dissertation upon Worships, Legends and Divinities 2011-11-24T03:00:37.917Z Behind, and to the right and left of it, the gentle murmur of the sister streams sounded like ghostly whisperings of evening sprites, busy spreading their grey mantles over the distant landscape. The Tangled Skein 2011-09-21T02:00:29.687Z French fairies and sprites are as distinguishable from German spectres as a spruce and daintily-gloved dandy, jauntily promenading the Boulevard Coblence, is different from a burly German porter, carrying a heavy load upon his shoulders. The Prose Writings of Heinrich Heine 2011-09-21T02:00:27.670Z And when, tired of the deceptions of beauty, I would only follow merit, the wanton little sprites suggested detections still more mischievous. The Wanderer (Volume 4 of 5) or, Female Difficulties 2011-09-17T02:00:32.663Z The benevolent sprites, who have urged me hither, have not given me a jot of information how you became known to Mrs Ireton? The Wanderer (Volume 3 of 5) or, Female Difficulties 2011-09-17T02:00:28.670Z On no account could they be induced to pay homage to any such mischievous sprites of the lake. The Life and Times of Kateri Tekakwitha The Lily of the Mohawks 2011-09-16T02:00:21.817Z I've hummed the music after thee as well As changing tones of youth allowed, and fear, And vexing sprites that choke the upward swell. Vacation Verse 2011-09-11T02:00:09.897Z Instead, one thought of sprites and fairies dancing merrily together. Stories of Great Musicians 2011-09-10T02:00:28.157Z The zephyrs play; day fades; cards come; crowding sprites pile into the game, and twist all into a fairy cable. English Lands Letters and Kings Queen Anne and the Georges 2011-08-29T02:01:10.603Z I took them for envious sprites, jealous of my repose! The Wanderer (Volume 3 of 5) or, Female Difficulties 2011-09-17T02:00:28.670Z The fairies were all blue-eyed and fair-haired, and in their thin gauzy robes looked true gossamer sprites, as light as air. The Girls of St. Cyprian's A Tale of School Life 2011-08-24T02:00:19.813Z They seem indeed winged sprites, playing everywhere, in fields and open woods, along roads, lanes, and brooks, in door-yards and gardens—wherever, in fact, a bit of open space invites their presence. Butterflies Worth Knowing 2011-08-10T02:00:15.887Z You might fancy that you heard the songs of the elves and woodland sprites. Stories of Great Musicians 2011-09-10T02:00:28.157Z Who shall help them against the wicked sprites whose gambols produce snowdrifts, burying men and cattle? or who protect them from the evil witch stealing about in the gloaming with sickness in her train? For the Right 2011-08-01T02:00:10.250Z This was followed by a wild, elfin passage in triple time—a sort of grotesque interlude, like the dance of sprites upon the lawn. School Reading by Grades Sixth Year 2011-07-31T02:00:11.420Z There never was anything more musical than the way that laughter was taken up, as if there were a thousand sprites laughing too. A Very Naughty Girl 2011-07-27T02:00:30.947Z Recording sprites Have taken down the gipsy's oath of blood; And now shall all men see, all nations tell, How, from the ashes of this trampled heart Did all triumphant rise the gipsy queen. Tales of the Wonder Club, Volume III 2011-07-16T02:00:13.547Z Space Invaders has no plot and no lead role; the aliens are constructed out of barely animated sprites, which won't give modern special effects experts much to work with. What does Hollywood want with old arcade games? 2011-07-12T14:34:00Z A condition brought about by the sprites of Humor, according to the rule that whom the gods would destroy they first make mad. The Roycroft Dictionary Concocted by Ali Baba and the Bunch on Rainy Days. 2011-07-02T02:00:10.980Z It is these sprites of art, who thus to me are speaking. Second Edition of A Discovery Concerning Ghosts With a Rap at the "Spirit-Rappers" 2011-06-26T02:00:08.797Z They seem practically to think our Lord is the God of the church and the village, while the old pagan sprites retain possession of the forest. Chronicles of the Schonberg-Cotta Family 2011-06-17T02:00:18.293Z Below, like the magic of invisible sprites, the jeweled strands of Brooklyn Bridge were flinging a brilliant span across the gulf of the night. The Salamander 2011-06-10T02:00:22.890Z "I don't believe sprites ever have hair like mine." Ethel Morton at Chautauqua 2011-05-04T02:00:16.097Z But thickest show the traces And thickest throng the sprites, In the woods about old Urrard, On the gloomy winter nights. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 60, No. 369, July 1846 2011-04-29T02:00:09.217Z There, the huge bedstead of pine-wood was not missing, on which roses and magic signs were painted; meant to drive away night-mares, goblins and other nightly sprites. Ekkehard. Vol. II (of II). A Tale of the Tenth Century 2011-04-14T02:00:45.217Z The Cobolds and various sprites they believe will bewitch their cows, set fire to their hay-stacks, lead them astray through the forest, steal their infants from the cradle to replace them by fairy changelings. Chronicles of the Schonberg-Cotta Family 2011-06-17T02:00:18.293Z He overturned everything in the kitchen after the servants had gone to bed, and was, in short, one of the most mischievous sprites you could imagine. Popular Rhymes and Nursery Tales A Sequel to the Nursery Rhymes of England 2011-04-01T02:00:34.340Z Many of these pagan sprites, indeed, had been originally impish and mischievous, since not all the aspects of nature are lovely or propitious, nor all the dreams of men. Three Philosophical Poets Lucretius, Dante, and Goethe 2011-03-20T02:00:33.357Z Note sprites and Menu button in lower left. Developers express concern over pirated games on Android Market 2011-03-17T09:23:00Z For the first few nights I hardly dared look at it before going to bed, lest I should have my rest broken by dreams of spectres and other horrid sprites of the imagination. The Thistle and the Cedar of Lebanon 2011-02-20T03:00:13.767Z After our meal we began to tell stories, but our grandmother positively forbade our mentioning the name of any of the forest sprites, or of any evil or questionable creature whatever. Chronicles of the Schonberg-Cotta Family 2011-06-17T02:00:18.293Z A trifling circumstance brought these mountain sprites to better terms. Jasper Lyle 2011-02-19T03:01:11.070Z During their swim they had seen several distinct species of these lovely little sprites, flashing like meteors over the surface of the water, or darting about through the tree-tops like sparks of glistening light. Afloat in the Forest A Voyage among the Tree-Tops 2011-02-10T03:00:44.790Z Fiends, ghosts, and sprites, Who haunt the nights, The hags and goblins do me know; And beldames old So valé, valé! ho, ho, ho! Literature for Children 2011-02-02T03:00:21.560Z This fountain was in the taste of the last century, and ornamented with old weather-beaten statues, representing, in fantastic fashion, sprites and water-nymphs. No Surrender 2011-01-29T03:00:22.467Z The sprites rushed headlong out of the house, their lights were extinguished, and in a few minutes they had all left the house. Fairy Tales From all Nations 2011-01-16T03:00:21.797Z Do we not find in the different ancient literatures, demons, angels, gnomes, goblins, sprites, spectres, elementals, &c.? The Fairy-Faith in Celtic Countries 2011-01-06T03:00:47.543Z Animism, in fact, never ceased to haunt the imaginations of the Peruvians, especially amongst the lower orders, whether the spirits were dreaded as malevolent sprites, or courted as protectors and revealers. Lectures on the Origin and Growth of Religion as Illustrated by the Native Religions of Mexico and Peru 2011-01-02T03:00:21.577Z And now Tudur beheld through the dusk hundreds of pretty little sprites converging towards the spot where they stood, from all parts of the mountain. British Goblins Welsh Folk-lore, Fairy Mythology, Legends and Traditions 2010-12-20T17:11:57.810Z They picked enemy sprites and set them marching in various patterns around the screen. Learning by Playing 2010-09-16T13:08:00Z The table was still covered as the sprites had left it, with all their precious and wonderfully wrought silver vessels. Fairy Tales From all Nations 2011-01-16T03:00:21.797Z It is a poem, sometimes called the Avallenau, from among the poems relating to the Battle of Arderydd; and it represents Myrddin or Merlin, the famous magician of Arthur, quite at the mercy of sprites. The Fairy-Faith in Celtic Countries 2011-01-06T03:00:47.543Z Trees figure in our mythologies and metaphors — the tree of life, the tree of knowledge — and we often imagine them to harbor spirits and sprites. Tree-mendous 2010-04-06T22:15:00Z At a show with enough subcompact sprites to make you wonder whether this was New York or Beijing, Scion showed the iQ, a 10-foot-long 100-horsepower microcar that goes on sale next year. New York Auto Show: Amid Signs of Spring, Hints of Green 2010-04-03T01:26:00Z Elfin sprites dance in the ripples of a laughing brook, and brownies scamper away over the leaf-swept hilltops. The Girl From Tim's Place "By her sprites you mean—" "The young ladies of her wonderful ballet," the prince replied. The Hillman And this is Merlin’s lamentation:— Ten years and forty, as the toy of lawless ones, Have I been wandering in gloom among sprites. The Fairy-Faith in Celtic Countries 2011-01-06T03:00:47.543Z He belonged to a race of sprites as vicious and cruel as the Brownies are kind and good. Old Farm Fairies: A Summer Campaign In Brownieland Against King Cobweaver's Pixies Of old every cascade and grotto was believed to be inhabited by nymphs and gnomes, every grove by wood sprites and brownies. Rockhaven They were singing merrily and romping like sprites across the meadow. The Cottage of Delight A Novel Near the shore the waves broke into white sprites of foam against the deep, incurving cliffs. The Camp Fire Girls Behind the Lines To divert their attention she threw the two roots of sweet potato behind her, and while the sprites were munching them she made good her escape up the cliff and succeeded in reaching home. The Belief in Immortality and the Worship of the Dead Vol. II I thought as I watched it that there was no need for poets to invent elves and gnomes while nature furnishes us with such marvellous little sprites ready to hand. With the World's Great Travellers, Volume 2 The dancing sprites go up and down this cord, with an agility only to be compared with that of cats or monkeys. Travels in Tartary, Thibet, and China During the years 1844-5-6 Volume 2 Perhaps rue was used in sprinkling, because in pre-Christian times rue had, by itself, power against sprites and powers of evil. Custom and Myth New Edition This was the true Carlo Gozzi; not that fantastic dreamy plaything of the sprites and fairies which his romantic French and German critics have discerned in the author of the Fiabe. The Memoirs of Count Carlo Gozzi Volume the Second I must have caught the loving mood from Oscar, or else some wood-nymphs or sprites must have been trying their hands on me, or perhaps I was only tired and lagged behind. Fragments of an Autobiography And if ghosts walked then, they were merry sprites who only came to tell the youths and maidens whom they were to love and marry. Tried for Her Life A Sequel to "Cruel As the Grave" "Undine," repeated Beverly, his eyes beginning to twinkle; "I had no idea you counted water sprites among your acquaintances." The Girl from Arizona Thistle had talked about the water sprites, but Hop was rather a dull fellow, and lived in the mud, so he could tell him nothing. Lulu's Library, Volume II De Musset strove to base upon it a theory that Gozzi was the victim of his own fabulous sprites. The Memoirs of Count Carlo Gozzi Volume the Second Because," answered Clem, with a smile, "canaries are as clever at seeing the gas sprites as was the Belgian diviner that Otto talks about. The Boy With the U.S. Miners Into all these other secondary products some stain of humanity enters; but little sinless sprites of greenwood and glen alone share the occult science of this with the blossoms. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 16, No. 94, August, 1865 Printed in U. S. A. BROWNIES, like fairies and goblins, are imaginary little sprites, who are supposed to delight in harmless pranks and helpful deeds. The Brownies: Their Book The tender-hearted sprites cried salt tears over it, and wrapped it in their softest sheets, finding it so lovely and so sad they could not bury it out of sight. Lulu's Library, Volume II We talk with goblins, owls, and elvish sprites. Folk-lore of Shakespeare He could see the gas sprites himself an' give warnin' where men had better not go. The Boy With the U.S. Miners Flames hissed aloft like fiery whips of snakes Blasting and killing all the fragrant sprites That make the dewy zephyrs their dim haunts. Blooms of the Berry Her silk dress fluttered in shimmering folds, and the white plumes in her hat nodded and quivered, like airy sprites, in time to the music. The Serapion Brethren, Vol. I. The water sprites were in blue armor made of dragon-fly scales, and they drew shells full of tiny bubbles that were shot like cannon-balls, upsetting their small enemies by the dozen. Lulu's Library, Volume II Mam.A sad tale’s best for winter: I have one of sprites and goblins. Folk-lore of Shakespeare He just walked into the mine an' saw the sprites. The Boy With the U.S. Miners "Fortunately, my boy, the country is now free from those evil sprites—but for them your uncle Karadeucq might now be in our midst by the fireplace." The Poniard's Hilt Or Karadeucq and Ronan. A Tale of Bagauders and Vagres In the magic twilight they set about all sorts of dances, pretending to be elves and woodland sprites. The Serapion Brethren, Vol. I. The water sprites in their blue robes floated here and there, or slept in beds of foam, rocked by the motion of the waves. Lulu's Library, Volume II Come on, sit down: Come on, and do your best To fright me with your sprites: you’re powerful at it. Folk-lore of Shakespeare The elves, who were the men-spirits o' the forest, became knockers; the dryads, who were the women-spirits o' the trees, became the sprites o' the gas damps. The Boy With the U.S. Miners Wasps are devils incarnate, but bees are fleshly sprites, as amiable as industrious. Recreations of Christopher North, Volume I (of 2) The wood sprites were routed by a modern girl. Trusia A Princess of Krovitch The priest wages fierce war with the sprites, and hunts them out of every place. La Sorcière: The Witch of the Middle Ages Its walls and ceiling were frescoed with groups of graceful figures, which represented the merry sprites of pleasure in carnivals of feasting, song and dancing. Solaris Farm A Story of the Twentieth Century He could see the gas sprites in their blue veils. The Boy With the U.S. Miners Could those minute, caterpillar-like objects, covered with scanty and scattering hairs, lying side by side in the bottom of their miniature cradle, be the offspring of the winged sprites of the bird-world? Upon The Tree-Tops So through this floating, fairy film of snowflakes it is easy to see gnomes and sprites dancing and all the people of northland legends grow and vanish. Old Plymouth Trails But the time had come when the little sprites who peopled his dreams of earth, were to be exchanged for the angel forms who were to welcome the faithful servant to his reward in heaven. English Caricaturists and Graphic Humourists of the Nineteenth Century. How they Illustrated and Interpreted their Times. They clasped their hands about their knees, and stared into the glowing heart of the fire, as though capable of seeing all manner of fantastic figures dancing there like madcap sprites. Jack Winters' Campmates "Then there's the gas sprites," Otto went on, pleased at having found a sympathetic listener. The Boy With the U.S. Miners Who among them has not been bewitched by one of those woodland sprites, led a wild dance through bush and brier, satisfied and happy if he could catch an occasional glimpse of the flitting enchanter! Upon The Tree-Tops And how a play-game of a painted stone Contents the quiet, now, and silent sprites, Whom all the world, which late they stood upon, Could not content, nor quench their appetites. Lectures Delivered in America in 1874 They seem to be more of the field spirit type, and are perhaps classed more correctly with the gnome race; we thus deal with them in our chapter on sprites and demons. Legends & Romances of Brittany Among other local sprites may be mentioned the kobolds or spirits of the mines. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 8, Slice 2 "Demijohn" to "Destructor" The black sprite, the brown sprite, the invisible sprite, the two gray sprites–elemental sprites they were–destined to be bound servants of man. In the Heart of a Fool But whatever she might think of the stories, always she liked the man, and of the airy fluttering sprites she grew so fond that it almost seemed as if they were her own children. The Unknown Quantity A Book of Romance and Some Half-Told Tales The quiet now and silent sprites of whom old Christolero sings, they are content; and well for them that they should be. Lectures Delivered in America in 1874 These architectural sprites then mounted on each other’s shoulders in order that they might reach high enough to place the mighty monoliths securely in position. Legends & Romances of Brittany Spies, like fairies and other such elusive sprites, traditionally come in rings. The Foreign Hand Tie A dainty and delicate legend of the brave days of old, of sprites and pixies, of trolls and gnomes, of ruthless barons and noble knights. The Bright Face of Danger Being an Account of Some Adventures of Henri de Launay, Son of the Sieur de la Tournoire Some became wood sprites and mountain gnomes, living in the trees, in the rivers, and under ground. Folk-lore in Borneo A Sketch "Spooks" means ghosts, sprites, goblins, and other such phantasms. Flowers of Freethought (First Series) And save us, Indra, from the spite Of sprites that haunt us in the night, Our rites disturb by contact vile, Our hallowed offerings defile. History of Religion A Sketch of Primitive Religious Beliefs and Practices, and of the Origin and Character of the Great Systems Day by day malicious sprites of thought went out behind Dr Rider in his drag, leading him into the wildest calculations, the most painful complication of schemes. The Doctor's Family A daughter of mixed ancestry, yet with her dainty hands and little feet, she seemed descended from sprites or sylphs. The Strollers I feel like Bottom the weaver when he summoned his sprites. The Pearl of the Antilles, or An Artist in Cuba There waterfalls are splashing, And down the rocks are dashing, But we can hear the sprites’ clear call above the torrent’s roar. Boys and Girls Bookshelf (Vol 2 of 17) Folk-Lore, Fables, And Fairy Tales Betty,’ said she, ‘deals chiefly in fairies and sprites; and sometimes in a winter night will terrify the maids with her accounts, until they are afraid to go up to bed.’ Henry Esmond; The English Humourists; The Four Georges Now all is sad, solitary and dreary, the haunt of sprites and spectres of nameless terror yonder halls and apartments shone in brilliant illumination. Alonzo and Melissa The Unfeeling Father The knaves are as full of mischief as sprites.” In Doublet and Hose A Story for Girls To them the stones have their gnomes, the water its sprites, and the sand a spirit of healing. Child and Country A Book of the Younger Generation They believe in all manner of devils and local sprites. In Court and Kampong Being Tales and Sketches of Native Life in the Malay Peninsula "Not the kind you think of, for there are none such, Daisy; but you have found two better and more beautiful ones than any fanciful sprites," said Wee. Aunt Jo's Scrap-Bag VI An Old-Fashioned Thanksgiving, Etc. You must know that Gerula was one of the most wicked and hideous sprites that ever existed. Fairy Book I must now go to the church steeple and see if the little sprites who live there have polished the bells, so that they may sound sweetly. Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen Besides, there was no butler there: here, Allenby, gravely irreproachable, with Sarah and Bride as attendant sprites, seemed to intensify the solemnity of everything. Captain Jim The sunbeams kiss the plaining deep, Wreathe with innumerous smiles The sounding waters as they meet,— While sister sprites Wake laughter round the isles. Song-waves "It doesn't rain, but it's dreadfully wet; so we'll go to the dairy, and see if any sprites are hiding there," said Wee next day; and to the dairy they went. Aunt Jo's Scrap-Bag VI An Old-Fashioned Thanksgiving, Etc. Dainty little elves ran about the square to the delight of the children, and quaint sprites clambered up the lamposts and squatted on the gables of the council house. Jewish Fairy Tales and Legends They have frightened their former inhabitants away, and left the buildings in the almost undisputed possession of real moles, bats, and owls, and imaginary goblins and sprites. The Humbugs of the World An Account of Humbugs, Delusions, Impositions, Quackeries, Deceits and Deceivers Generally, in All Ages I’ve nothing to say of angels or sprites, Or the spooks that appear in the darkest of nights. Buchanan's Journal of Man, June 1887 Volume 1, Number 5 Doctor Chapman says of the brown heads: "They are talkative sprites, and, like a group of school children, each one chatters away without paying the slightest attention to what his companions are saying." Our Bird Comrades No fabled sprites of chants and creeds, Nor myths of bygone years, For thou suppliest all his needs And wip'st his briny tears. The Sylvan Cabin A Centenary Ode on the Birth of Lincoln and Other Verse Every day different messengers came—big, ugly demons who threatened, pretty fairies who tried to coax him, and troublesome sprites and goblins who only annoyed him. Jewish Fairy Tales and Legends “O do not go,” the seamen said, “To yonder fatal ground, Where savage Jutts, and wicked elves, And demon sprites, abound.” A Bibliography of the writings in Prose and Verse of George Henry Borrow Be that as it may, and there is great truth in it, some naughty sprites, some bad fairies, were flitting around and about that apparently peaceful atmosphere. A World of Girls The Story of a School Instead, the whole panorama of her Eastern winter unrolled itself before her, peopled with little fairy sprites, who danced with twinkling feet and smiled at her mockingly. The Sunbridge Girls at Six Star Ranch First came a group of thirty of the village children, dressed as water sprites, and blowing on soft-toned silver horns. Princess Polly At Play What he beheld was a vast array of demons and goblins and sprites, and in a rose-bush the princess, his wife, shining like a star, surrounded by her attendant fairies. Jewish Fairy Tales and Legends Some of them were to wear the costumes of foreign races, while others were to be dressed up like fairy figures, sprites, and gnomes. The Goose Man There Monseigneur turned and came back again, and so in due course of time got himself shut up in his sanctuary by the chocolate sprites, and was seen no more. Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern — Volume 11 Gods, and nymphs, find fathers, Sages, Bráhmans, sprites,— Every diverge creature Wrought that rite of rites. The Rámáyan of Válmíki, translated into English verse “There is no need for poets to invent,” he adds, “while nature furnishes us with such marvellous little sprites ready to hand.” The Western World Picturesque Sketches of Nature and Natural History in North and South America Stories of sprites and goblins, of witches and magicians, were eagerly sought by him. Historic Boyhoods Therefore he seemed to be groping around, without anchorage, after sprites from the land of nowhere. The Goose Man The wind rose instantly, blew out The fire of the nocturnal lights; A trouble fell upon the sprites; Oneguine lightning glances shot; Furious he from the table rose; All arise. Eugene Oneguine [Onegin] A Romance of Russian Life in Verse The Finale, after a short introduction, in most sombre vein, indicates the flitting about of Ariel and his companion sprites as they gather for revelry. Contemporary American Composers Being a Study of the Music of This Country, Its Present Conditions and Its Future, with Critical Estimates and Biographies of the Principal Living Composers; and an Abundance of Portraits, Fac-simile Musical Autographs, and Compositions Grandpapa Jerome, in a very foreign costume and a bald head which he tried to keep covered with a black velvet cap, had two extremely tricksy sprites for grandchildren. A Little Girl in Old New York It is the fear that she was early made subject to, and the grief that she feels for her mother, that create demons and sprites for her. Feats on the Fiord The third book in "The Playfellow" We talk with goblins, owls, and sprites: 190 If we obey them not, this will ensue, They’ll suck our breath, or pinch us black and blue. The Comedy of Errors The Works of William Shakespeare [Cambridge Edition] [9 vols.] The watch-dogs bark as that part of the burthen which ‘sweet sprites bear.’ The Tempest The Works of William Shakespeare [Cambridge Edition] [9 vols.] The western Slavs in general and the sons of Czech in particular, had their flights of fairies, sprites, pixies and other lovable immortals. From a Terrace in Prague Scores of baby ostriches, just released from their night shelter, were racing into the morning light, pirouetting round each other like crazy, gleesome sprites. Blue Aloes Stories of South Africa But have you really left off believing in Nipen, and the whole race of sprites?” Feats on the Fiord The third book in "The Playfellow" Most of us sprites are glad to leave our flowers never to return, because a great happiness is connected with our leaving. The Adventures of Maya the Bee Fiends, ghosts, and sprites, Who haunt the nights, The hags and goblins do me know And beldames old My feats have told, So vale, vale; ho, ho, ho! English Songs and Ballads As a result of this some unique and original Hallow E'en sprites, nymphs, dryads or witches foregathered in the big laundry, "cleared for action," Polly said, and two or three aroused little cries of admiration. Peggy Stewart at School Birger by guardian sprites outcast in mare’s shape met him As all men did behold.’ The Sagas of Olaf Tryggvason and of Harald The Tyrant (Harald Haardraade) Upon the side of a certain mountain grew some pines, under the shade of which the Puckwudjinies, or sprites, were accustomed to sport at times. Folk-Lore and Legends: North American Indian We sprites appear to human beings only in their dreams.” The Adventures of Maya the Bee The tallest of the maidens clapped her hands, and immediately a long table was spread by unseen sprites with meringues and cold chicken, and several sorts of delicious ices. Prince Ricardo of Pantouflia being the adventures of Prince Prigio's son Our primitive forefathers, as our fairy tales still reveal, believed that men and women could be changed into anything—into trees, rocks, wolves, bears, kings and fairy sprites. Christianity and Progress The words danced in her head, like circles of little sprites carrying alluring wreaths of roses. The Daughters of Danaus Old fairy tales of her childhood crowded into her mind, memories of phantoms and ghosts and goblins, the legends of Undine and the water sprites, the ballad of the Erl-King in the haunted forest. The Princess of the School “We sprites,” he explained, “live seven nights, but we must stay in the flower in which we are born, else we die at dawn.” The Adventures of Maya the Bee Old women’s tales about goblin sprites and things that live underground. Sappers and Miners The Flood beneath the Sea The gaily-apparelled lancers, with their plumes, pennons, and tassels, representing the sprites and sylphides of the pantomime, are succeeded by men who look real life. The Lone Ranche The more important natural forces became gods, and the inferior ones were, as a general thing, relegated to the secondary position of mere sprites, like the jinns, in Arabic beliefs. The Religion of Babylonia and Assyria Yet naught wonder it is, their sprites be wholly in labour. 15We bear divided thought one way and hearing in other: Vanquish't by right we must be, since Victory loveth the heedful. The Carmina of Caius Valerius Catullus It’s the sprites, their wings and their garments. The Adventures of Maya the Bee The sunshine had never been so golden, she thought, nor danced so among the branches nor shook out such dainty sprites. A Little Girl in Old Detroit Such sprites did not scruple to pull away the chair as one was about to sit down, to pinch, or even to steal children and leave changelings in their places. The Book of Hallowe'en This is the fairy land; O spite of spites We talk with goblins, owls, and elfish sprites. Shakspere, Personal Recollections Altar-Prayer Invoke we now the four thousand, The myriads four of the nimble, The four hundred thousand elves, The countless host of sprites, 5Rank upon rank of woodland gods. Unwritten Literature of Hawaii The Sacred Songs of the Hula The plants drink us and we become a part of their growing and blooming until in time we rise again as sprites from out their flowers.” The Adventures of Maya the Bee But whatever she might think of the stories, always she like the man, and of the airy fluttering sprites she grew so fond that it almost seemed as if they were her own children. The Unruly Sprite A Partial Fairy Tale They waved their hands to me and sped like sprites along the gallery; and I waited, wondering what more the night would bring forth. Orrain A Romance In the green grasshoppers—those delightful sprites of hot summer days—'ears' of a precisely similar structure are found on the fore-leg instead of on the body. Chatterbox, 1905. 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. Pocket Island A Story of Country Life in New England “Ah,” said the queen, “who’d have thought the sprites were so lovely?” The Adventures of Maya the Bee On learning the cause of her weeping, he said it was of no use to contend against sprites, but that he would give her his snapping-turtle as a proof, of his sympathy. Childhood's Favorites and Fairy Stories The Young Folks Treasury, Volume 1 At last she went out at the back door, followed by her sprites; and the wind, which kept blowing a furious blast all the time, ceased. The Mysteries of All Nations Rise and Progress of Superstition, Laws Against and Trials of Witches, Ancient and Modern Delusions Together With Strange Customs, Fables, and Tales The water sprites that inhabit it must be a dirty set. Debit and Credit Translated from the German of Gustav Freytag "Now—one, two, three—go!" and they were off like four little black sprites, down the broad stairway and into the living room where the boys were already assembled, talking to the chaperon. The Outdoor Girls on Pine Island Or, A Cave and What It Contained 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. Correggio A Collection Of Fifteen Pictures And A Portrait Of The Painter With Introduction And Interpretation Then indeed the sprites and goblins of ironic mirth rioted in Halloway's brain. A Pagan of the Hills The witch went through all the ceremonies formerly performed, and the sprites acted their parts. The Mysteries of All Nations Rise and Progress of Superstition, Laws Against and Trials of Witches, Ancient and Modern Delusions Together With Strange Customs, Fables, and Tales We must remember that at this time belief in witchcraft, fairies, sprites, ghosts, hobgoblins, magic and supernatural powers was common. Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great - Volume 12 Little Journeys to the Homes of Great Scientists Two weeks and three days they had been absent; and in that time how the busy sprites of change and circumstance had been at work! Faith Gartney's Girlhood The playful little fellow on the clouds below St. Matthew's feet looks across at the sprites of the opposite pendentive. Correggio A Collection Of Fifteen Pictures And A Portrait Of The Painter With Introduction And Interpretation "What story ?" "About the lady and the little sprites that waited on her." Queechy, Volume I That drop, distilled by magic sleights, would raise such sprites, that by the strength of their illusion would draw Macbeth to confusion. The Mysteries of All Nations Rise and Progress of Superstition, Laws Against and Trials of Witches, Ancient and Modern Delusions Together With Strange Customs, Fables, and Tales Visions of wood sprites went through my head and I sat perfectly still, so as not to frighten him away. The Camp Fire Girls in the Maine Woods Or, The Winnebagos Go Camping Then the water became broken, and the surface checkered with phosphoric lights, flitting and dancing, like so many sprites on a revel. The Von Toodleburgs Or, The History of a Very Distinguished Family The little sprites are attendants of the goddess, playing in a mimic hunt. Correggio A Collection Of Fifteen Pictures And A Portrait Of The Painter With Introduction And Interpretation Largely so, if the reference is to the river gods, the Naiads, and water sprites, of classical mythology. Nature Mysticism Well, sir, from the silent dead, Still I’ll try to daunt you; Ever round your midnight bed Horrid sprites shall haunt you. The Complete Works of Robert Burns: Containing his Poems, Songs, and Correspondence. With a New Life of the Poet, and Notices, Critical and Biographical by Allan Cunningham One of the two attendant sprites slung the other up on to the back of the phantom horse tossing against the sky. Boy Woodburn A Story of the Sussex Downs Saint Denis shield me from such female sprites!� The Choise of Valentines Or the Merie Ballad of Nash His Dildo They are wingless sprites, playful as human children, but with a grace and beauty not of earth. Correggio A Collection Of Fifteen Pictures And A Portrait Of The Painter With Introduction And Interpretation We are your monarch, but we own That were we not, we very well Might take ye to be imps of hell: But ye are glorious ghastly sprites, What ho! our page! The Germ Thoughts towards Nature in Poetry, Literature and Art If she knows of sprites, and gnomes, and nymphs, and fairies, she finds them all dancing in glee at her feet in the form of rippling wavelets. The Vitalized School Nor with his wavering arrows could o'erthrow Even the airy domes of delicate sprites, Sitting and decking their etherial robes And turning them, sparkling, to his sullen face. The Arctic Queen If you like a beautiful fairy-tale in verse, all about children and the elves or sprites that children love, read his "Little People of The Snow." St. Nicholas Magazine for Boys and Girls, Vol. 5, September 1878, No. 11 Holy days, holy fastings, Holy twitchings, holy tastings Holy visions and sights, Holy wax, holy lead, Holy water, holy bread, To drive away sprites. Curiosities of Literature, Vol. 2 But why not 'spirits' rather than 'sprites,' which has a different association by custom? The Letters of Robert Browning and Elizabeth Barrett Barrett, Vol. 1 (of 2) 1845-1846 When the Great Mogul held empire, there were certain little sprites who used to undertake all sorts of tasks helpful to mankind. The Original Fables of La Fontaine Rendered into English Prose by Fredk. Colin Tilney 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. The Arctic Queen As a consequence of this return of Nature's children to Nature's breast, the genii loci, the sylvan sprites, are all frightened inland from the borders of the beautiful river. Lippincott's Magazine, December, 1885 Fairies, fays, genii, sprites, etc., were once supposed to be helpful to some favored men. Among the Forces Nora's eyes followed the dancing waves that seemed like living, happy sprites. Gritli's Children Possibly the zephyrs, who are said to be friends of the sprites, helped him in his tasks. The Original Fables of La Fontaine Rendered into English Prose by Fredk. Colin Tilney In a loud, commanding voice, he called upon the sprites, the trolls, and the goblins, with whom he was familiar, to come at once into his presence. Hero Tales These ugly sprites, they say, are rich, Yet yield nought without wooing. Traditions of Lancashire, Volume 1 The Germans imagine that they have fairy kobolds, sprites, and gnomes which play under ground and haunt mines. Among the Forces Instantly the space seemed filled with sprites in every conceivable attire. Prince Lazybones and Other Stories By Mrs. W. J. Hays One of these friendly sprites cultivated the garden of a worthy family living near the Ganges. The Original Fables of La Fontaine Rendered into English Prose by Fredk. Colin Tilney Was I the masterful captain or the pawn of laughing sprites? Darkwater Voices from Within the Veil With these simple and meagre materials, Pope has constructed an harmonious poem in which the sylphs, gnomes, and other sprites of the Rosicrucian philosophy find appropriate place and service. English Literature, Considered as an Interpreter of English History Designed as a Manual of Instruction This is the fairy land; O spite of spites, We talk with goblins, owls, and elvish sprites. Handy Dictionary of Poetical Quotations Fiends, ghosts, and sprites, Who haunt the nights, The hags and goblins do me know; And beldames old My feats have told; So Vale, Vale; ho, ho, ho! The Sources and Analogues of 'A Midsummer-night's Dream' Return, O, laughing sprites of rest, From gentle isles and peaceful seas, And pour the balsamed wine of ease Upon the anguish of my breast! Oklahoma and Other Poems He lives in another world—has, as Sir Anthony Absolute says, a sun and moon of his own—a realm of fairies, with attending sprites to perform his every compassable wish. Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 1, November 13, 1841 There was no way for the banshees and the wood nymphs and the sprites to get into the house and take her while she slept, for there always was a fire in the fireplace. The Meadow-Brook Girls Under Canvas "We are water sprites," answered one, in the clearest voice that can be imagined, "and when this delightful warmth comes all about us, we become so light that we fly off, as you see." McGuffey's Fourth Eclectic Reader We seven girls were like sprites gone mad. Different Girls They are "fairies or sprites with corporeal forms, endowed with immortality," and yet also dei terreni or síde worshipped by the folk before the coming of S. Patrick. The Religion of the Ancient Celts "No; I believe they lived happily ever after; but the ascent was so cliff-like that mountain sprites are supposed to have given their assistance." The Sword Maker The water sprites and the wood nymphs will lend wings to thee in thy efforts to please them. The Meadow-Brook Girls Under Canvas Down fell a great number of the tiny mountains and castles, carrying with them a multitude of frost sprites, and all that could be seen was a drop of water on the window sill. McGuffey's Fourth Eclectic Reader The dance,—was it not woven by those nymphs of old, those sprites of open spaces in the deep woods, from whose immemorial company she must have strayed into this present time? Audrey One's common-sense—at least in matters of this sort—is reduced to a minimum, and imagination with all her attendant sprites usurps the place of judgment. The Empty House and Other Ghost Stories Along the path by which he sat, all fringed with London-pride, the leaves spread dappled shadows—a mosaic of nature fit for the tread of angels or the dance of fairy sprites. Lancashire Idylls (1898) The fairies and the gnomes and the sprites and the banshees gathered about the door of the shack," continued the first ghost, "Suddenly they heard a wild, weird wailing off on the moor. The Meadow-Brook Girls Under Canvas No, no," replied a chorus of many small voices from the drop of water, "we are only water sprites again. McGuffey's Fourth Eclectic Reader Abba Benjamin says, "If our eye were permitted to see the malignant sprites that beset us, we could not rest on account of them." Hebraic Literature; Translations from the Talmud, Midrashim and Kabbala But among the other swarming sprites, and circling elfs, and frolic phantoms of the Bells, Punch beheld brighter things. Punch, Or The London Charivari, Volume 102, Jan. 2, 1892 Perhaps rue was used in sprinkling, because in pre-Christian times rue had, by itself, power against sprites and powers of evil. Custom and Myth No sooner were they inside the cottage than the other door burst open and all the fairies and the gnomes and the sprites were hurled out and carried away on the great gale. The Meadow-Brook Girls Under Canvas "After a while I flew with these others to this window, and, as we alighted on the glass, the cold changed us from water sprites into sprites of the Fine Frost family." McGuffey's Fourth Eclectic Reader In her imagination's picture, the maids and matrons of the bluegrass were as marvellous, as fascinating, as are the fairies and the sprites of Anderson and Grimm to girls more fortunately placed. In Old Kentucky He saw the tower, whither his charmed footsteps had brought him, swarming with dwarf phantoms, sprites, elfin creatures of the Bells. Punch, Or The London Charivari, Volume 102, Jan. 2, 1892 But I wish you would tell me something about your German sprites. Ilka on the Hill-Top and Other Stories Now the fairies and the banshees, the wood nymphs and the sprites coveted this beautiful child Muriel because they knew she would make a good fairy. The Meadow-Brook Girls Under Canvas Before long we shall be water sprites again. McGuffey's Fourth Eclectic Reader He knew the rugged little land and the sparkling fiords; his imagination had delighted in Necken and Hulder and trolls, and all the charming fantastic sprites of the Northland. Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern — Volume 5 In the account of our unfortunate hawking expedition, I mentioned an instance of one of these sprites, supposed to haunt the ruined grange that stands in a lonely meadow, and has a remarkable echo. Bracebridge Hall, or The Humorists And I used to try to imagine what tune it was that could call from the mountain air the 'flower sprites' and 'sunshine elves' of morning on the mountain. Aylwin The west wind with an awful wail and roar rushed into the shack, carrying with it the fairies and the gnomes and the sprites and the banshees. The Meadow-Brook Girls Under Canvas Diana, Venus, Vulcan, Apollo, Jove, and Mercury had evidently stumbled into a convention of nymphs, satyrs, fairies, sprites, furies, harpies, gargoyles, giants, pygmies, muses, and fates. Reveries of a Schoolmaster As each "Ho-o!" of the refrain is sung, the dancers should whirl like merry sprites, twine and untwine their green mantles about their forms until the song begins again. Indian Games and Dances with Native Songs Merry, merry sprites are we, Dancing round the Christmas tree. Christmas Entertainments Almost frightening in the quickest, pulsing motion is the sudden stillness, as the weird poising of trembling sprites. Symphonies and Their Meaning; Third Series, Modern Symphonies His literary life is full of sprites and gnomes that frolic before young children and once before mature people. Short-Stories In his Memorialls, a work not published till long after his death, he gives this instance of the deceitfulness of sprites. Cock Lane and Common-Sense Ghosts being seldom dangerous to human life, we follow up the homicidal Glam with a Scottish traditional story of malevolent and murderous sprites. The Book of Dreams and Ghosts If she were a fairy, she was no twilight spirit, but rather a cheerful dawn-fairy—one of those happy household sprites that help the work of man. Fenwick's Career And we may add, as elusive for the enchanted mind to hold are these pranks and brilliant parade of tonal sprites. Symphonies and Their Meaning; Third Series, Modern Symphonies Flake follows flake, like sprites, Whose wings the winds dissever; Thought follows thought, and lights The realms of mind forever. The Poets and Poetry of Cecil County, Maryland All the branches, however, were gone; the tree had been uprooted, transported, whirled and worn by deluges; then to commemorate the victory of the water sprites, it had been changed into stone. Overland If you would learn his story, listen to the sprites that ride on crimson steeds along the arterial highways, singing of man's destiny as they go. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 09, No. 54, April, 1862 His angels are genii disimprisoned from the chalices of flowers, houris of an erotic Paradise, elemental sprites of nature wantoning in Eden in her prime. Renaissance in Italy Volume 3 The Fine Arts New invading sprites do not hem the flight of the melody. Symphonies and Their Meaning; Third Series, Modern Symphonies There, Monseigneur turned, and came back again, and so in due course of time got himself shut up in his sanctuary by the chocolate sprites, and was seen no more. A Tale of Two Cities Housed with only Cloud and rain-wind, mist and damp; Round whose foam-drenched feet and nether Depths, together Sullen sprites of thunder tramp! The Poems of Henry Kendall With Biographical Note by Bertram Stevens There were ghosts in the fens which walked on stilts, while the sprites of the hill country rode on flashes of fire. The Life of Thomas Telford; civil engineer with an introductory history of roads and travelling in Great Britain The roar of the working day drowns the voices of the elfin sprites that are ever singing their low-toned miserere in our ears. Idle Thoughts of an Idle Fellow It was the most defenceless of all electric sprites, and it had so many enemies. The History of the Telephone Oh! no," said Miranda; "only I am not used to living with sprites and with sheep that talk, and everything here frightens me. The Blue Fairy Book Down amongst the hills of tempest, where the elves of tumult roam— Blown wet shadows of the summits, dim sonorous sprites of foam? The Poems of Henry Kendall With Biographical Note by Bertram Stevens First entered a band of Ryls from the Happy Valley, all merry little sprites like fairy elves. The Road to Oz The wind had risen and was sighing and wailing around the eaves and the snow was thudding softly against the windows, as if a hundred storm sprites were tapping for entrance. Anne of Avonlea Behold," quoth he, "to do despite and wrong To that dear flock my mercy hath in cure, How Satan from hell's loathsome prison sends His ghosts, his sprites, his furies and his fiends. Jerusalem Delivered Red and purple the coal bed gleamed, with little white flame sprites dancing over it. Fanny Herself X. Arouse, my friend—let vivid fancy soar, Look with creative eye on nature’s face, Bid airy sprites in wild Niagara roar, And view in every field a fairy race. The Culprit Fay and Other Poems Orion: These are the gnomes, coarse sprites and rough; Come on, of these we have seen enough. Poems by Adam Lindsay Gordon Out on the silent pond straightway The restless ice doth crack, And pond sprites merry gambols play Amid the deafening rack. Excursions Triumphant Umbriel on a sconce's height Clapp'd his glad wings, and sat to view the fight; Propp'd on their bodkin spears, the sprites survey The growing combat, or assist the fray. The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope, Volume 1 Here the middle-aged poet recalls the fervid dreams of his youth and thinks of them under the image of airy sprites attending his rushing chariot, like the Hours in Guido's picture. The Life and Works of Friedrich Schiller Ten thousand little sprites flitted swiftly through the chambers of her brain, humming, singing, weeping, but always busy, busy. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 05, No. 30, April, 1860 The elves, and nixies and sprites, of all colors and many forms were on hand. Welsh Fairy Tales Yet perhaps they were not really mothers' children, but sprites and joys that had not learned the way to nestle. The Best British Short Stories of 1922 For when the fair in all their pride expire, To their first elements their souls retire: The sprites of fiery termagants in flame Mount up, and take a Salamander's name. The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope, Volume 1 It has been said with reason that even fairies and sprites must have verisimilitude, that is to say, be really sprites and fairies, coherent artistic intuitions. Aesthetic as Science of Expression and General Linguistic Pronounce: pursuit; swoon; spars; drought;; sieve; launch; cruise; shoal; tour; jib; gesture; formidable; sheathe; sprites. The Elson Readers, Book 5 But just as though all the sprites and devils from the infernal regions had concerted to torture my patience, we stopped short. My Double Life The Memoirs of Sarah Bernhardt Elfin: elf, a fairy, from the Anglo-Saxon, refers especially to tiny sprites, fond of mischief and tricks. Selections from Poe "About the lady and the little sprites that waited on her." Queechy Here was a sudden attack, a trick of the sprites. Rest Harrow A Comedy of Resolution 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. The Elson Readers, Book 5 I muttered some invectives against the invisible sprites, and declared that, as I would not suffer any more, I was now going to sleep. My Double Life The Memoirs of Sarah Bernhardt Lightly we tread these halls around, Lightly tread we; Yet, hark! we have scared with a single sound The moping owl on the breathless tree, And the goblin sprites! The Pilgrims of the Rhine But he sang, and sang, as I watched the waves, and peopled them all with sprites, and cried "chassez!" "hands across!" to the multitudinous quadrilles, all danced on the moonlit, musical floor. Redburn. His First Voyage This was followed by a wild, elfin passage in triple time—a sort of grotesque interlude, like the dance of sprites upon the sward. The Canadian Elocutionist He went on to speak of the elves and sprites, so frequent in Scottish legend. Abbotsford and Newstead Abbey Luid-i-ger, also, made it hard for the naughty elves and sprites that delude men. Dutch Fairy Tales for Young Folks Ha, ha! we have scared with a single sound The old gray owl on the breathless tree, And the goblin sprites! The Pilgrims of the Rhine He was a delicate child, shy, sensitive, elflike, who wandered through the woods near his home, in Sussex, on the lookout for sprites and hobgoblins. Outlines of English and American Literature : an Introduction to the Chief Writers of England and America, to the Books They Wrote, and to the Times in Which They Lived At the crosspaths there darted in all directions, as thick as dust, countless hordes of grey sprites and evil spirits. The Created Legend Still one may admire the very spirited girl archers surmounting the two columns, even if they are apparently launching arrows at their sister sprites below, instead of into jets of water as was intended. An Art-Lovers Guide to the Exposition Elves and fairies, moss maidens and stall sprites, one and all, behold our invention, which our great friend Fro and our no less helpful friends, the kabouters, have helped me to produce. Dutch Fairy Tales for Young Folks Displace the imps ingratitude convokes, By love-winged sprites that gratitude evokes; Open thy mind to kindnesses received, And be no longer blindly self-deceived. Home Lyrics He's now talking in his fit of delirium; sprites are in possession of the man. The Captiva and the Mostellaria The elfs and sprites of this desolate region had been playing a hoax on the former party. The History of Australian Exploration from 1788 to 1888 In the pool at the base of the fountain are a number of graceful groups of water sprites on dolphins, and four larger groups representing the four great seas. An Art-Lovers Guide to the Exposition But she went boldly back, and soon the sprites that rained upward in her glass were sending tiny balloons of hope through her brain. We Can't Have Everything And the sweet balm these love-winged sprites convey, Strengthens and cheers recipients on their way; Blessing the sender no less than the one Who thus receives the grateful tribute won. Home Lyrics Do you not know I am your uncle Kühleborn, who brought you to this region, and that I am here to protect you from goblins and sprites? The World's Greatest Books — Volume 04 — Fiction The sound rebounded from the rocky cliffs, cannoned against the barriers opposite, and then bounced backward and forward till the whole atmosphere of the valley seemed alive with the laughter of sprites. The White Waterfall The elves and sprites of this desolate region had been playing a hoax upon Goyder's party. The Explorers of Australia and their Life-work These two different ways of looking at things have influenced in each country the whole world of sprites and goblins. The Celtic Twilight 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. A Select Collection of Old English Plays, Volume 7 We heard them say that it was a strange sort of isle, for that sprites had come to the boat, to take off the sails and oars. Robinson Crusoe — in Words of One Syllable And all these goblin hammers, like hands and feet of sprites, rising and falling, by magic, by hidden mechanism. Sunny Memories of Foreign Lands, Volume 2 In the cockpit, long associated with merry, mischievous sprites of "middies," there had been for many a year the representation of a funeral urn, with the sentence, "Here Nelson died." Life of Her Most Gracious Majesty the Queen — Volume 1 The sprites are the work of Leo Lentelli; they have a quaint elfin quality that is very engaging. The Sculpture and Mural Decorations of the Exposition A Pictorial Survey of the Art of the Panama-Pacific international exposition "But where we people of the world speak of fairies, sprites, and nymphs, I suppose you permit yourself to think only of angels." From Jest to Earnest And these sprites were as familiar to them now as those of their own childhood. A Prisoner in Fairyland Had Hernando Cortez not found the treasures of Mexico, he might have fought his way north, over the Gila Desert, to the golden hoards of the sprites of the Sierras. The Little Lady of Lagunitas A Franco-Californian Romance Indeed I hope we may do something towards supplying her with a real home, wandering sprites as we have been,' said Lady Merrifield. The Two Sides of the Shield They came often to see him, Watson bringing his wife, the former Miss Stokes, and many a night was made cheerful for the little man by these good sprites from another world. Mr. Bingle So a deadly battle followed in which the ladies fought against the gentlemen, and in which the sprites also took part. English Literature for Boys and Girls He had long ago told them, with infinite and exaccurate detail, of his journey to the garden and his rediscovery of the sprites, forgotten during his twenty years of business life. A Prisoner in Fairyland And then, with the inconsequence of dreams and sprites, she appeared to him. The Ne'er-Do-Well "Down a romantic Swiss glen, where scores of sylvan nooks and rippling rills invite one to cast about for fairies and sprites," is the word descriptive of my route from Marcellus next morning. Around the World on a Bicycle - Volume 1 From San Francisco to Teheran My dear sprites, do you know that it is past eight! Magnum Bonum So the watchful sprites flew off to their places— "Some, orb in orb, around the nymph extend; Some thrid* the mazy ringlets of her hair, Some hang upon the pendants of her ear." English Literature for Boys and Girls For, while sprites and yearning were decidedly his own, the interpretation of them, if not their actual origin, seemed another's. A Prisoner in Fairyland It was to be a ladies' bouquet, and Rosebud made the centerpiece, with all the other pretty sprites in a circle about her. The Motor Girls Then the sprites of mischief tempted her to let David know she had been near him. Love Me Little, Love Me Long From the gloomy corners come gnomes and demons, and in the crystal shadows he sees sprites and lovely fairies, keeping gay revel to dreamy airs, played on invisible strings by spirit hands. Our War with Spain for Cuba's Freedom If he go down, thou soon shalt know Whate'er these airy sprites can show; If thy heart fail thee in the strife, I am no warrant for thy life.' Marmion And the fairies themselves, the sprites, the children! A Prisoner in Fairyland The woods rang with the laughter of pixies and naiads and sprites. The Trimmed Lamp, and other Stories of the Four Million Then, after draining the cup, she had it refilled, and poured the brandy on the ground as an offering to Waizganthos, and threw down the cakes for his attendant sprites. The Golden Bough Aggie's fairy glades in the woods were filled, not with dancing sprites, but with gnats. Tish Long years ago, from the first of April till June we did have two frolicsome sprites here that announced themselves as 'Billy' and 'Spunk,' I'll own. Miss Billy He remembered then his old Star Cave—cave where lost starlight was stored up by these sprites for future use. A Prisoner in Fairyland On learning the cause of her weeping he said it was no use to contend against sprites, but that he would give her his snapping turtle as a proof of his sympathy. The Junior Classics — Volume 1 And it was natural to suppose that the more closely the mock marriage of the leaf-clad or flower-decked mummers aped the real marriage of the woodland sprites, the more effective would be the charm. The Golden Bough Girl archers on top of columns at four corners of central court, launching arrow at sprites on base of columns. The City of Domes : a walk with an architect about the courts and palaces of the Panama-Pacific International Exposition, with a discussion of its architecture, its sculpture, its mural decorations, its coloring and its lighting, preceded by a history of its growth With which the royal virago made an imperious motion for her attendant sprites in gossamer white to precede her, and turned with her accustomed stately step to follow. The Midnight Queen Now he took all his own childhood's sprites out in this Starlight Express and introduced them to these transplanted children who had never made acquaintance with the English breed. A Prisoner in Fairyland Here they found no sprites nor demons, nor even men, but a fair, half-tropical verdure and, running wild, great numbers of swine. Pioneers of the Old South: a chronicle of English colonial beginnings Now the Australian black has not a door, nor has he gods of any service to him in the "trees and waters," though sprites may lurk in such places for mischief. Myth, Ritual and Religion — Volume 1 And when at last the wagon was brought out and the horses hitched to it, they danced like mad sprites. Main-Travelled Roads "Betty," says she, "deals chiefly in fairies and sprites, and sometimes in a winter-night will terrify the maids with her accounts, till they are afraid to go up to bed." Isaac Bickerstaff, physician and astrologer The sprites were very active indeed—quite fussily energetic. A Prisoner in Fairyland III From "The Tempest" Come unto these yellow sands, And then take hands: Court'sied when you have, and kissed,— The wild waves whist,— Foot it featly here and there; And, sweet sprites, the burthen bear. The Home Book of Verse — Volume 1 Music with harp of golden strings, Love with bow and quiver, Airy sprites on radiant wings, Nymphs of wood and river, Joined the Muses' constant song, As Rhyme and Reason passed along. Poems I thought, as I watched it, that there was no need for poets to invent elves and gnomes while Nature furnishes us with such marvellous little sprites ready at hand. The Naturalist on the River Amazons Still Fay in long procession followed Fay; And still the little couch remained unblest: But, when those wayward sprites had passed away, Came One, the last, the mightiest, and the best. Miscellaneous Writings and Speeches — Volume 3 Their shops were full of clay figures painted in bright colours and representing gods and goddesses, mimes, women, winged sprites, &c., such as were usually buried with the dead. Thais To see these light, foolish, pretty, lively little sprites flit about—that moveth Zarathustra to tears and songs. Thus Spake Zarathustra A book for all and none The Japanese have borrowed most things, including apparitions and awesome sprites and grisly fiends, from the Chinese, and then have improved on the original model. Books and Bookmen It is the world of the unseen, the supersensuous; it is the world of what we call the soul and the supposed objects of the soul's perception, sprites, demons, ghosts and gods. Darwin and Modern Science Once upon a time there was a wicked sprite, indeed he was the most mischievous of all sprites. Andersen's Fairy Tales You happy sprites, that in the concave sky With pleasant joy enjoy your sweetest love, Shed forth those tears with me, which then you shed, When first you would your ladies to your wills. Locrine/Mucedorus Come unto these yellow sands, And then take hands: Curtsied when you have, and kiss'd,— The wild waves whist,— Foot it featly here and there; And, sweet sprites, the burden bear. The Tempest Come on, sit down;—come on, and do your best To fright me with your sprites: you're powerful at it. The Winter's Tale As from your graves rise up, and walk like sprites To countenance this horror! Macbeth We talk with goblins, owls, and sprites; If we obey them not, this will ensue, They'll suck our breath, or pinch us black and blue. The Comedy of Errors "Well, Sir, from the silent dead, Still I'll try to daunt you; Ever round your midnight bed Horrid sprites shall haunt you!" Poems and Songs of Robert Burns |
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