spirit

• So the conjurer called his mascot and rode down through the air to his hut There his body had lain motionless while his spirit was away, but now it revived. —  A Treasury of Eskimo Tales
• They all tend to show that man finds one thing when he goes the way of transitory sense-perception, and another when his spirit is alone with itself. —  Christentum als mystische Tatsache und die Mysterien des Altertums. English
• Gentle and courteous, yet apparently insensible to fear, his spirit was an inspiration. —  The Spirit of Lafayette
• Here, at the beginning of the century, this spirit was as strong as it had ever been, and achieved a series of explorations and discoveries which revealed the plains of the Far West long before an Anglo-Saxon foot had pressed their soil The expedition of one Le Sueur to what is now the State of Minnesota may be taken as the starting-point of these enterprises. —  A Half Century of Conflict - Volume I France and England in North America
• Nay, but such a spirit is the basest spirit. —  The Works of the Rev. Hugh Binning

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