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I liked their priest - she was a vibrant, very spiritful woman, who spoke a homily about walls that have lasted for hundreds of years without mortar; occasionally they will need patching, and it's crucial to get that patching.

Wedding in Boston bats22 2008

Miss Howe is a charming creature too; but confoundedly smart and spiritful.

Clarissa Harlowe 2006

If you will indite a letter to ----, putting spirit into her, and telling her that this horrid ironing and starching is very possible, you will do a great good, for, as ---- said, 'Poor thing, she is not spiritful, and is easily frightened.'

Selections from the Letters of Geraldine Endsor Jewsbury to Jane Welsh Carlyle 1892

It is quite possible even now to point out, by the help of a few disjointed fragments still preserved, the position, and to divine the sense, of certain spiritful and defiant passages which, in the interest of

The Sceptics of the Old Testament: Job - Koheleth - Agur Emile Joseph Dillon 1894

This is our spiritful standing through faith by virtue of Christ's death: our actual mortification of particular sins is in proportion to the degree of our effectually being made conformable to His death.

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible 1871

Miss Howe is a charming creature too; but confoundedly smart and spiritful.

Clarissa Harlowe; or the history of a young lady — Volume 3 Samuel Richardson 1725

This wine is exceeding pleasant, strong, spiritful and comfortable.

The Closet of Sir Kenelm Digby Knight Opened Kenelm Digby 1634

Bert is the young Kenneth, a young, energetic, and spiritful boy and also dare to dream.

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I was not ill pleased to hear Mrs Pawkie so spiritful; but I replied, 'Dinna try to stretch your arm, gudewife, farther than your sleeve will let you; we maun ca' canny mony a day yet before we think of dignities. '"

The Proverbs of Scotland Alexander Hislop 1836