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Example sentences for "spirits"

Lexicographically close words:
spiritist; spiritistic; spiritists; spiritless; spiritous; spiritt; spiritts; spiritu; spiritual; spirituali
  1. There only did I meet and talk with the typical men of the West, and the simple, true-hearted, restless spirits of the Island Continent who have pushed the outposts of their country far into the desert.

  2. Those two spirits within me were whispering again--plotting, machinating, discussing common ground of action.

  3. And sometimes, when those committed to his charge are idle, or faithless, or unprincipled, it wears away his spirits and his health together.

  4. Like mountains the billows tremendously swell; In vain the lost wretch calls on Mercy to save; Unseen hands of spirits are ringing his knell, And the death angel flaps his broad wings o'er the wave!

  5. Their dead faces shall express what their spirits were, and are to be, by a lingering smile of memory and hope.

  6. Can your pure spirits fear The God ye never could offend?

  7. The grass was just as green, Tom, Barefooted boys at play Were sporting, just as we did then, With spirits just as gay.

  8. I don't think I ever enjoyed a dance more, and I am sure that my pleasure was partly due to the wild spirits of the religiously released who were having the first joy fling for six months.

  9. He considered that he had virtually given that lady his word that he would not make love to her; but his spirits had risen since his visit of three or four hours before.

  10. Besides, higher spirits always suggest finer wisdom, and such an attribute on Lionel's part was most humiliating of all.

  11. These contaminated spirits wander over all the earth, and console themselves by the destruction of men.

  12. The possessed are represented as dwelling among the tombs, and being driven by the unclean spirits into the wilderness, and the demons can find no rest in clean places.

  13. Nothing was considered indifferent or too trifling, and the danger from the most trivial movements or omissions to which men were supposed to be exposed from the malignity of evil spirits was believed to be great.

  14. Evil spirits fly chiefly during the darkness, for they are children of night.

  15. Uriel is the angel of thunder and earthquakes; Raphael, of the spirits of men; Raguel is the angel who executes vengeance on the world and the stars; Michael is set over the best of mankind, i.

  16. According to Josephus, demons are the spirits of the wicked dead; they enter into the bodies of the living, who die, unless succour be speedily obtained.

  17. He considers that demoniacs are possessed and tortured by the souls of the wicked dead,(2) and he represents evil spirits as watching to seize the soul at death.

  18. When, however, the hour which she had appointed for their coming arrived, her heart sank within her, and her spirits entirely failed, when she met their familiar faces almost as sad as her own.

  19. Everywhere menstruating women are supposed to be possessed by spirits and charged with mysterious forces.

  20. Arbuthnot was one of the leading spirits in the Scriblerus Club, the members of which were to collaborate in a universal satire on the abuses of learning.

  21. He never quite recovered his former spirits and health after this shock.

  22. At last, as afternoon drew on, a dark line of green edged the prairie to the westward, and our spirits rose.

  23. But as I mounted the slopes of the mountains my spirits rose too at the prospect of the life before me.

  24. For the love of God keep up their spirits, Bowman," said the Colonel; "keep up their spirits until we get them across.

  25. We gained the still pools below, the sun came out once more and smiled on the landscape, and the spirits of the men, reviving, burst all bounds.

  26. Her spirits flagged a little as she drew near home, but old Mr. Ripley's rose.

  27. It was clear that they would vanish at the next General Election, and Parliament be left to settle accounts with the extreme men, whose spirits rose as those of our friends steadily sank.

  28. In the chapter of 'knowing the spirits of the East' the Osirified assumes the type of the virile and hairy Horus, the divine hawk of the resurrection.

  29. By no trail his spirits go, Through the mountain-passes high, Where the moon is on the snow And the screaming eagles fly, Where the yawning canyon roars With memories of misty shores.

  30. Thus it is that the spirits of the great and the wise continue to live and to act after them.

  31. Strange as it may seem, this old man of the island could get the spirits to rouse the winds and the waves at his pleasure.

  32. The spirits of your fathers Shall start from every wave!

  33. But now the spirits of my companions again deserted them, and they declared that they neither would, nor could, proceed any further.

  34. One of these released spirits had the pretty name of Ariel; a lively little sprite, who, in gratitude to Prospero, was always ready to do his will.

  35. This dashed the spirits of the Iroquois, and they sent a canoe to call to their aid five hundred of their warriors, who were mustered near the mouth of the Richelieu.

  36. The husband and wife set off in high spirits to inspect their new abode, to which some portion of their furniture had already been transferred.

  37. However, all three were full of spirits when Jakob met them, and the Ausserkofers declared that they were ready henceforth to pilot any other tourist to the summit for a moderate four or five gulden apiece.

  38. At the outer door a stone monster of huge proportions and uncouth features kept guard against the uncanny spirits that are supposed to frequent out-of-the-way lanes and dreary passages.

  39. By thus bringing into prominence the unconscious in psychic life, we have raised the most evil spirits of criticism against psychoanalysis.

  40. Alice was in the best of spirits during their drive.

  41. He was in such high spirits and so full of fun and fancies that the rattle never ceased.

  42. He was proud and melancholy, and, while he led a life of pleasure, his spirits were always wrapped in gloom.

  43. When he observed that Evelina was a little out of sorts, he attributed her low spirits to doubts of his intentions towards her.

  44. For in spite of the exultant sunshine our spirits have been under a cloud, a deepening shadow of horror and calamity.

  45. That Paragon, thy daughter, For whom my heart drops blood, and my false spirits Quaile to remember.

  46. No more you petty Spirits of Region low Offend our hearing: hush.

  47. Yet the spirits recorded both these things on their tablets, as though both were worthy of their remembrance.

  48. Eubulus, my spirits are suddenly appalled, my limbs wax weak: This strange friendship amazeth me so, that I can scarce speak.

  49. If case your ears be dead and deaf, The fiend and spirits below, You careless carls of Limbo lake, Your forced mights do show.

  50. Farewell, brave lords; my wishes are bequeath’d, A nobler rank of spirits never breath’d.

  51. Paul speaks of the Church coming to an innumerable company of angels--to God the Judge of all--the spirits of just men made perfect; to Jesus the Mediator of the new covenant.

  52. Our hearts do not shrink, neither are our spirits altogether broken by {292} the grievous yoke which is put upon us.

  53. The Father called all spirits before Him at the creation of man, and organized them.

  54. One or two showers of rain cooled the air and revived the languid and drooping spirits of those in the camp, and symptoms of better health were visible on the countenances of the afflicted.

  55. We may look for angels and receive their ministrations, but we are to try the spirits and prove them, for it is often the case that men make a mistake in regard to these things.

  56. The gift of discerning spirits will be given to the Presiding Elder.

  57. Made great progress in the turnpike, and the desponding spirits of some began to revive, for laboring had looked to some to be rather a hard way to procure means to prosecute our journey, though but few complained.

  58. Lying spirits {392} are going forth in the earth.


  59. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "spirits" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
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