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Example sentences for "spirit"

Lexicographically close words:
spirea; spired; spires; spirillum; spiring; spirite; spirited; spiritedly; spirites; spiriting
  1. Thus Archbishop Strype openly favoured the custom, holding that it "gave a spirit to the children," and was an encouragement to them to study in the hope of attaining some day the real mitre.

  2. This measure, so inconsistent with the spirit of the age and so contradictory in its terms, was re-enacted at various dates during the reigns of Elizabeth and James I.

  3. This liberal spirit was tempered by common sense, since only those were admitted whose almæ maters received Oxford graduates on equivalent terms.

  4. There was something in that woman that was big all through and roused the spirit in me.

  5. The heated spirit spilt on the floor blazed up fiercely, almost hiding those two, and rousing a shriek of dismay from the ladies.

  6. In the same conscientious spirit she interviewed the housekeeper and ordered a very good dinner for her husband because he was her husband.

  7. The old admiration for her spirit which, even now, did not hesitate to meet him boldly on his own ground, rose in him as, instinctively, he turned to the signature for some further light to guide him in reading the closely written sheets.

  8. And then the loss of her independence broke her spirit and turned her into a fretful scold.

  9. Shakespeare, of course--fortunately there was a one-volume edition that came within the letter of the law if not the spirit of it.

  10. The immortal spirit of love, which can neither die nor grow old, was extricating itself from the earth that clung to it.

  11. It's a roof and four walls--that's all any house is, without the spirit that makes it home.

  12. Sidenote: A Gift] "If only the finer things of the spirit could be bequeathed, like material possessions!

  13. Eloise was watching her narrowly, and, with womanly intuition, saw the dire need and the courageous spirit struggling against it.

  14. Dimly, Barbara began to perceive the intangible price that is attached to the things of the spirit as well as to the material necessities of daily life.

  15. And who shall say that inanimate things do not answer to our love of them, and diffuse, between our four walls, a certain gracious spirit of kindliness and welcome?

  16. It was during the early autumn of 1856 that the good Spirit prompted the Sabbath-school teachers of Massachusetts, one thousand strong, to pay a visit to the Crystal Palace and the Sabbath-school teachers of New York.

  17. Happy is that child who is blest with a mother or teacher who will "bide patiently all the endless questionings of the little one, and will not rudely crush the rising spirit of free inquiry with an impatient nod or a frown.

  18. Really teach this and it will remain attached to the natural conscience for life, and only awaits the spark of grace from the Holy Spirit to descend and act upon it, and renew the heart and change the life.

  19. Seek the proffered, willing aid of God's Holy Spirit believingly, and the work is done.

  20. In all your teaching, forget not to recall the fresh spirit of your childhood in all its warmth and earnestness, remembering that he is the wisest teacher who can combine the man's intellect with the child's heart.

  21. All need inspiring with the spirit that will go forth and plant new schools, and gather in and secure a good religious education to every child in the community.

  22. Do not rashly check the rising spirit of free inquiry with an impatient word or frown.

  23. Great evil is done if the teacher is cold, morose, or fretful in spirit or manner.

  24. This lottery business shows the spirit of gambling so largely developed in nations of Spanish descent.

  25. The Parliament did not believe that in the present temper of the Dutch their proposals were likely to be received in the spirit in which they were offered, and the ambassadors were recalled.

  26. A youthful boatman, expert alike with the oar and the gun, served me faithfully and well, impossible as it was for him to enter fully into the spirit of a man who wanted to look at birds, but not to kill them.

  27. If church ceremonials are still open to amendment, I would suggest, in no spirit of irreverence, that a study of pelican processionals would be certain to yield edifying results.

  28. Her pure spirit is happy; but what a wretch am I!

  29. They catch the gross parts; but the subtile spirit evaporates; and not having the just ties, affectation disgusts, when grace was expected to charm.

  30. Is this complying with my Henry's request, could a spirit thus disengaged expect to associate with his?

  31. I do not--thy spirit is not confined to its mouldering tenement!

  32. In like manner, she entered with such spirit into whatever she read, and the emotions thereby raised were so strong, that it soon became a part of her mind.

  33. And can such serve their Creator in spirit and in truth?

  34. He cannot work with the proper spirit in such a case.

  35. Is it possible that a being so fearfully and wonderfully made as man, and animated by a spirit still more fearful and incomprehensible, was created for the brief term of a few revolutions of the planet he lives on?

  36. Lord Coke was, himself, deeply imbued with the love of his profession, and he is able to transfuse his own spirit into his readers.

  37. And Pamela had caught something of the sharp, harassed spirit too.

  38. This was why Theodora North, in glistening rose-pink satin, sent him home confronting a suddenly-raised spirit of pain.

  39. This will enable you to avoid differences, and to continue in that spirit of amity which I have always so much admired in your relations.

  40. After a succession of hard-fought battles the invading army of the Emperor entered Moscow, but Napoleon's spirit was broken.

  41. And when they do come out, though every admirer will lament he was, long ere completion, called to his blessed account, their sorrow will be softened at beholding with what effect and spirit his animated graver has been caught up by his son.

  42. A story conceived in the same spirit as 'The Clammer,' filled with the same philosophy, displaying the same keen insight.

  43. My daughter Hezekiah is the frankest person alive, and she told me of her meetings with you and that you had been to the Asolando,--where she spent a day in the sheerest spirit of mischief.

  44. The spirit of mischief never whispered into a prettier ear a trick better calculated to cause confusion.

  45. It is not every one who can admire a sunset with sincerity, but she conveyed the spirit of the phenomena that had attended the lowering of the bright targe of day in terms and tones that were delightfully natural and convincing.

  46. You have several times addressed me, Mr. Ames, in a spirit of contumely which I have hesitated to punish by the chastisement you deserve; but I am willing to let bygones be bygones.

  47. To me she had become an incarnation of the play-spirit that never grows old, and there may have risen in me an honest belief that what this unusual woman sought she would somehow find.

  48. She was as unlike Cecilia as possible, and the difference lay in her independent spirit and bubbling humor.

  49. Hezekiah may be entering the house and playing ghost for amusement, merely in a spirit of childish rebellion against the interdiction that forbids her the house.

  50. I give you my word for it that it is only in the most complex existence that the spirit of man can thrive.

  51. A heart, a spirit like hers would never grow old!

  52. And it is because she is so inexpressibly dear and precious that I am anxious that nothing shall ever hurt her,--nothing mar the sweet, beautiful child-spirit in her.

  53. The thought of blackberry or raspberry-pie depresses me, but huckleberry buoys the spirit again.

  54. My dear Wiggins, I came here in a spirit of friendship, and you treat me like a pickpocket.

  55. The spirit of deathless youth was in her heart; and youth's gay pennants fluttered about her, as the reports of her gun fell cheerily upon the crisp morning air, a rebuke and a challenge to all indolent souls.

  56. I have passed to-day one of the most agreeable days of my life; your righteous spirit will be offended with me-but I must tell you: my Lord and Lady Bath carried my Lady Hervey and me to dine with my Lady Allin at Blackheath.

  57. What is more extraordinary, though the Opposition set out vehemently the very first day, there has appeared ten times greater spirit on the court side, a Whig vehemence that has rushed on heartily.

  58. In a very long, and consequently a very agreeable letter, which I received from you yesterday, you set me an example which I despair of following, keeping up a correspondence with spirit when the world furnishes no events.

  59. If there ever was a spirit that went to heaven for mere gratitude, which I am persuaded is a much more uncommon qualification than martyrdom, I must draw upon his hoard of merit to acquit myself.

  60. The answer to the Prussian memorial, drawn chiefly by Murray, is short, full, very fine, and has more spirit than I thought we had by us.

  61. With all his faults and arbitrary behaviour, one must worship his spirit and eloquence: where one esteems but a single royalist, one need not fear being too partial.

  62. Here are great disputes in the Regency, where Lord Harrington finds there is not spirit enough to discard these puppet-show heroes!

  63. The great spirit of evil, called Mudje Monedo, and Matche Monito, is regarded as a created, and not a pre-existing being.

  64. It seemed, during this time, as if an evil spirit haunted me.

  65. Literally he sings: Spirit of the North West--you are but my fellow man.

  66. When the advice is finished, an address, or kind of prayer to the great Spirit is made, in which he is thanked for the food before them, and for the continuance of life.

  67. Gitshee Monedo nebee ogee } The Great Spirit made water.

  68. At higher points in the ascent we encountered emigrants from Maine, Connecticut, Pennsylvania, North Carolina, and Kentucky, which denotes the wide range of the spirit of migration at the era.

  69. The Great Spirit here lifted up his hands and displaying a bow and arrows, told him to look at him.

  70. She told me that the Ghost of God or Holy Spirit only could make the heart better, and that the souls of all who died, without having felt this power, would be burned in the fires.

  71. He looked up; and beheld the Great Spirit sitting on a white horse.

  72. Many fanciful tales are told of its having been once attempted, when a huge spirit strode into the water, and reclaimed the shining treasure.

  73. The war-crowned stars, those beaming lights, my spirit casts at night, Direct me as I thread the maze, and lead me to the fight.

  74. They believe that the Great Spirit created material matter, and that he made the earth and heavens, by the power of his will.

  75. Verily, we deserve punishment with the Spirit of Evil.

  76. Where will she get spirit to love him and work out their salvation?

  77. Nickols had come after me to Goodloets in a spirit of gentle determination and I knew the fight would be to the finish.

  78. A flood of love and reverence rose in my heart for her as I sat quiet and let her spirit roam.

  79. His scientific spirit is manifest in an astronomical work, “Concerning the Stars,” which we do not have, but which was doubtless connected with his reform of the calendar.

  80. Hannibal, the Carthaginian, carried the spirit of conquest across the Mediterranean to Spain, Italy, and over the Alps.

  81. In character Loki has more in common with the mischievous spirit described by Hesiod, than with the heroic figure of Aeschylus.

  82. Frazer's theory that the Baldr-myth is a relic of tree-worship and the ritual sacrifice of the God, Baldr being a tree-spirit whose soul is contained in the mistletoe.

  83. In Snorri, he is a mischievous spirit of the fairy-tale kind, exercising his ingenuity alternately in getting the Gods into difficulties, and in getting them out again.

  84. You must remember that a cheerful spirit that enables a man to support hardship and fatigue lightly, and to animate his soldiers by his example, is one of the most important characteristics of a leader of men.

  85. Once or twice he had, from a spirit of adventure, gone with them to meetings that were held after dark in a quiet spot near Dartford, and listened to the talk of strangers from Gravesend and other places.

  86. A great number of priests, too, followed the example of the bishop, threw aside the cassock and clad themselves in armour to go to the war in the spirit of crusaders.

  87. An instrument in which an air-space or bubble is utilized to disclose whether the surface upon which the spirit level is laid is horizontal.

  88. Fisk's greatest need is an answer to the prayer of God's people for that constant indwelling of the divine Spirit which shall keep in stout heart those who, with personal self-sacrifice, are doing its work.

  89. And Fisk's determination to rear such leaders is an abiding protest against the spirit which denies to any human being a chance, and a declaration that the Church, like its divine Master, is to minister especially to those who most need help.

  90. Added to these are intellectual training, musical culture and a spirit of true gentility.

  91. Apart from the beauty and diction of the language there is a deep spirit of faith and dependence on God breathed throughout the whole of the address.

  92. An orthodox believer Lincoln may not have been, in fact was not, but he was better,--he had the spirit of Christ which manifests itself more peculiarly in actions than in words.

  93. Otherwise the Great Spirit would take away their land from them and give it to others.

  94. Why then should it be expected from us, who are all young and inexperienced, to govern and keep up a proper spirit of discipline without laws, when the best and most experienced can scarcely do it with them?

  95. Seeking for the "primitive spirit and church upon earth," he found it in the sect which Loe represented.

  96. And let us listen to the inner voice; let us live in the illumination of the light which lighteth every man, and attend to the counsels of that Holy Spirit whose ministrations did not cease with the departure of the last Apostle.

  97. By either derivation, it indicates the earnest spirit of that strange people who, in the seventeenth century, were annoying and displeasing all their neighbors.

  98. This association of sentiment and religion with a transaction in real estate is a fitting symbol of the spirit in which the Pennsylvania colony was undertaken.

  99. In this spirit he wrote a letter to the Indian inhabitants of his province.

  100. The Friends of Reading Meeting even noted that he was "facetious in conversation," and there is a tradition of a venerable Friend who spoke of him "as having naturally an excess of levity of spirit for a grave minister.

  101. Springett inherited the devout spirit of his parents; his father wrote an affecting account of his pious death.

  102. It was the spirit which had carried his father from a lieutenancy in the navy to the position of an honored and influential member of the court.

  103. Their service was a silent meeting, whose solemn stillness was broken, if at all, by the voice of one who was sensibly "moved" by the Spirit of God.

  104. It was not long before the spirit moved Penn.

  105. It is a curious fact that the spirit of protest will often pass by serious offenses and fasten upon some apparently slight occasion which has rather a symbolical than an actual importance.


  106. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "spirit" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    abandon; action; activity; afflatus; aggression; air; alacrity; ambition; amphibian; anima; animate; animation; animus; anxiety; apparition; appearance; appetite; ardor; astral; atmosphere; audacity; aura; avidity; axiom; backbone; balls; banshee; bearing; being; blood; bogey; bones; bosom; bottom; brand; breast; breath; bubble; cast; center; character; characteristic; cheer; climate; coloring; commitment; complexion; composition; concentrate; concentration; confidence; connotation; consequence; constitution; control; core; courage; creativity; daemon; daring; dash; decoction; dedication; demon; devotion; diathesis; disposition; distillate; distillation; drift; drive; dynamism; eagerness; earnestness; ecstasy; effect; effervescence; ego; eidolon; elan; elixir; eloquence; energy; enliven; enterprise; enthusiasm; esprit; essence; essential; ether; ethos; excitement; exhilarate; expression; extension; extract; extraction; exuberance; fabric; faith; feel; feeling; fervor; fiber; fidelity; fight; fire; flavor; flower; focus; force; form; fortitude; frame; fundamental; furor; fury; gaiety; gallantry; genius; ghost; gist; glow; grain; gravamen; grit; guide; gumption; gust; gusto; gut; guts; habit; haunt; heart; heartbeat; heat; heroism; hue; humor; hustle; hypostasis; idea; ilk; illusion; imbue; immateriality; impact; impatience; impetus; implication; import; incorporeal; infect; inform; infuse; infusion; initiative; inject; inoculate; inside; inspiration; inspire; inspirit; intelligence; intensity; intentness; juice; keenness; kernel; kind; larva; life; lifeblood; liveliness; loyalty; makeup; manhood; marrow; material; materialization; matter; meaning; meat; medium; mettle; milieu; mind; mist; mold; mood; morale; mould; moulder; mouldy; nature; necromancy; nerve; note; nucleus; odor; overtone; panache; passion; pertinence; pertness; phantasm; phantom; physique; pith; playfulness; pluck; pneuma; poignancy; point; poltergeist; postulate; prana; presence; principle; promptness; property; pungency; purification; purport; push; quality; quick; quickness; quid; quiddity; quintessence; readiness; reference; refinement; relation; relevance; relish; resolution; savor; scope; seance; self; sense; seriousness; shade; shadow; shape; significance; signification; sincerity; sitting; smoke; sniff; sort; soul; sparkle; specter; spectrum; spice; spirit; spirits; spiritualism; spook; sprite; spunk; stamina; stamp; strain; streak; stripe; stuff; style; substance; sum; system; talent; temper; temperament; tendency; tenor; theophany; timbre; tone; toughness; type; undertone; value; vapor; vehemence; vein; verve; vigor; vim; viscera; vision; vitality; vitals; vivacity; warmth; way; wraith; zeal; zest


    Some related collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    spirit and; spirit life; spirit photography; spirited citizen; spiritual activity; spiritual being; spiritual beings; spiritual character; spiritual existence; spiritual experience; spiritual good; spiritual history; spiritual jurisdiction; spiritual kingdom; spiritual light; spiritual matters; spiritual perception; spiritual power; spiritual religion; spiritual sacrifices; spiritual songs; spiritual substance; spiritual things; spiritual understanding; spiritual world; spirituous liquors