"Sprit" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... his blood covered face and glinting rubber head piece. The miller uttered a cry of terror, let go the rope and ran into the mill where he securely fastened himself, thinking no doubt that some evil sprit of the Danube had appeared to him. When the terrified miller loosened his hold on the rope, Paul now almost entirely exhausted dropped back into the current and floated away in a semi-conscious condition. With ...
— The Story of Paul Boyton - Voyages on All the Great Rivers of the World • Paul Boyton
... eagerly, "it is true, then, that the Sprit of God worketh and dwelleth in you still? You sigh unto God because of the absence of your friends and faithful servants; and all the while they are together, sighing because of yours and laboring ...
— A Popular History of France From The Earliest Times - Volume IV. of VI. • Francois Pierre Guillaume Guizot
... the helm, the schooner's bow-sprit slowly swung round from the land, and the crew, hauling lustily on the ropes, began ...
— Many Cargoes • W.W. Jacobs
... more ships being driven from their anchors, were run out of the roads to sea, at all adventures, and that with not a mast standing. The light ships fared the best, as not so much labouring in the sea; but two or three of them drove, and came close by us, running away with only their sprit-sail out before the wind. ...
— The Life and Adventures of Robinson Crusoe (1808) • Daniel Defoe
... likely to overblow, we took in our sprit-sail, and stood by to hand the fore-sail; but making foul weather, we looked the guns were all fast, and handed the mizen. The ship lay very broad off, so we thought it better spooning before the sea, than trying or hulling. We reefed the fore-sail and set him, and hauled ...
— Gulliver's Travels - into several remote nations of the world • Jonathan Swift |
