How To Use Sprite In A Sentence

  • As people who ought to know better," observed M. Kollsen, "now think the wind is alive, and call it Nipen, or the mist of the lake and river, which they call the sprite Uldra. Feats on the Fiord The third book in "The Playfellow"
  • She plays Silly, a Nova Scotian seasprite of girl who is the subject of a marine tragedy of, er, Titanic proportions.
  • More an Irish sprite than anything, Mairead leapt, twirled, and 'arabesqued' her way across the stage courting us through her violin. Dr. Cara Barker: The Beauty of Giving Your Whole Heart
  • At first, he thought he had finally lost his mind, and was seeing faeries and sprites.
  • Five minutes later there was an explosion in the field, followed by a sprite of hanging smoke. DISPLACED PERSON
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  • It was a CD for kids, which used cartoon sprites to teach basic computing skills.
  • The lively little sprite Ariel had nothing mischievous in his nature, except that he took rather too much pleasure in tormenting an ugly monster called Caliban, for he owed him a grudge, because he was the son of his old enemy Sycorax. Types of Children's Literature
  • Also are new scope sprites with realistic scratched and dirty lenses.
  • First car was a '64 Austin Healy Sprite, deer head and legs sticking out the trunk was quite a site. didn't get too far back into the woods but back then I had no problem doing that on foot Why Minivans Make Great Hunting Vehicles
  • The computer sprites can't yet convey enough emotion for you to care about them.
  • We went in the pool, had a water bomb fight, ate pizza, shotgunned cans of fanta and sprite, watched Scary Movie 4 and played some card games.
  • Oberon tells Puck, a mischievous sprite, to fetch him a certain magic flower, the juice of which he will press on the eyes of Titania while she sleeps, so that she may fall in love with what she first sees when she wakes.
  • Tom Byam Shaw's Ariel may swing on a trapeze from time to time but his speech – at first strangely elongated, then gabbled – is earthbound and he trips around the stage as if he were an obliging ballet student rather than a sharp-edged sprite. Decade; The Tempest; The Kitchen; Parade – review
  • It would be the easiest folly in the world to fall in love with her: there is such a sweet babylike roundness about her face and figure; the delicate dark rings of hair lie so charmingly about her ears and neck; her great dark eyes with their long eye-lashes touch one so strangely, as if an imprisoned frisky sprite looked out of them. Adam Bede
  • a kelpie is an imaginary water sprite, you know, and a pixy is a-- a-- why, a sort of make-believe fairy who lives in the water. Patty in Paris
  • The spritely 27-year-old was swept in as a last-minute understudy for the part when Clairemarie Osta came down with double tendinitis.
  • She was a robber baroness; she dwelt in a rocky "fastness" -- whatever that was -- surrounded by a crew of outlaws as desperate as any that ever drew cutlass and dagger, and she ruled them not only by native strength of character, but also by the aid of other forces, for she was on friendly terms with the more prominent wood sprites, fairies, and the like, and they brought her wisdom. Flowing Gold
  • What an insouciant sprite, a slippered marvel outside the combative gymnast Gareth. Dragon dreams of Barry John, Gareth Edwards and springtime in Paris | Frank Keating
  • In England the hobgoblin was as helpful a sprite as the brownie and was also known as Robin Goodfellow or Puck.
  • It is the classic tale of a young knight who falls in love with Ondine, the female water-sprite of Scandinavian legend, an enchantress and seductress who is still capable of love.
  • She visited the cottage every day and the sprites brought gifts of seeds and flowers to show their appreciation for the heroic deed he had done.
  • The winner for 2004 was Shawn Lane, a casino bartender whose creation, the Beau Aces (Bacardi Limon, orgeat syrup, splash of bitters, soda and Sprite) will now be featured on bar menus throughout the property.
  • Here are the performance improvements RPO delivers: minifies, combines and compresses JavaScript files minifies, combines and compresses stylesheets combines images into CSS sprites inlines images inside the stylesheet turns on gzip compression sets far future Expires headers loads scripts asynchronously Fullasagoog.com full roast blend
  • Her new boyfriend was a young businessman and drove a Sprite and Pam thought he was a good catch.
  • She was with a talking cat and dog, an warrior, a witch, and a water sprite.
  • So, we kind of quickly threw away the notion of sprite flicker and all these things that would be very problematic or limits that we'd have to impose on ourselves for gameplay. GameSetWatch
  • With sprite aquatint, the acid is painted directly onto the aquatint ground of an etching plate.
  • The laminak were female sprites, similar to leprechauns, who could wield either a helpful or harmful influence.
  • Although the word "pixie" is commonly associated with dainty fairies and forest sprites, the Wired Top Stories
  • I called the waiter/bartender over and enquired and he proudly, as if he had just won the grand prize exclaimed I used Merlot, a spot of sprite, Cointreau, a good shot of vodka, a small squeeze of lime, ice and garnished with a lime and orange rim slice. Sangrita and sangria
  • When she smiled and curtsied, she reminded me of a sprite-ish imp.
  • You say, ‘I've never seen any imps, sprites or goblins in this whole neighborhood!’
  • After she examined Sprite, Dr. Bardsley characterized his condition as “pronounced masseter muscle atrophy,” a severe shrinkage of the muscles on the right side of his face. Rescuing Sprite
  • She shoved past a merchant selling amulets to ward against evil entities and demonic sprites.
  • The graphics have improved, with nice big, colorful sprites for the enemies, and they're varied enough to be interesting.
  • Yes, I read QC I also read Penny Arcade for awhile, and while it was still alive I read another sprite fancomic called “Breaking the 4th Wall”. Look, there’s WiFi at the airport! « Love | Peace | Ohana
  • she wailed, turning and kneeling above him, like some fierce wood sprite. DEATH OF AN UNKNOWN MAN
  • While the primary goal was to study severe thunderstorms and their link to heavy rain and hail, scientists also gathered important data on lightning's role in triggering events above thunderclouds, like sprites.
  • A character specific to the Sierra region is the duende, a large-eyed sprite who wears a hat and who preys on children.
  • In England the hobgoblin was as helpful a sprite as the brownie and was also known as Robin Goodfellow or Puck.
  • Space controllers are aware of unusual atmospheric phenomena called sprites, a form of lightning that flashes into space above thunder clouds.
  • It is unforgettable -- for the boy and for readers -- as are the magical reappearance of the berserker Thorgil from a burial by moss; new characters Pega, a slave girl from Jack's village, and the eager-to-marry-her Bugaboo (a hobgoblin king); kelpies; yarthkins; and elves (not the enchanted sprites one would expect but the fallen angels of legend). The Land of the Silver Apples by Nancy Farmer: Book summary
  • Brian followed and greeted Michelle quietly while smiling at his spritely sister.
  • The bottom portion of the frame is populated by the complex geometry and sprites that make up the environment, while the top portion contains some geometry and the large sky box.
  • She was small and spritely with light hair and laughing hazel eyes, in contrast to Agathe who was tall, dark and solemn, although very graceful and beautiful.
  • The sprite was a tiny weight in his hair, as though a lock had become twisted by the breeze. Lord of the Isles
  • Tom seems very well, spritely I think the word is.
  • The idea came to him during a storm, as he swam in the moat of his Suffolk farmhouse and watched the raindrops dancing on the surface like tiny water sprites.
  • Posy wished there was some ingenious sprite hovering somewhere just waiting to sprinkle similar inspirational magic dust on her love life. TICKLED PINK
  • The novel centers on Aislinn (pronounced ASH-linn), a mortal who's always been able to see fairies, and who knows that they aren't all sweet, happy sprites. Wicked Lovely
  • One way was flotante en Sprite, another was, if I recall, in agua mineral con gas, and the third, (strange to imagine) was in vino tinto. My favorite limonada
  • Posy wished there was some ingenious sprite hovering somewhere just waiting to sprinkle similar inspirational magic dust on her love life. TICKLED PINK
  • Some scientists believe that if Columbia was hit by a sprite, heat-shield tiles could have been blasted off, exposing the vulnerable airframe.
  • Occurring in the middle of the atmosphere, red sprites look like the stems of carrots, while blue jets are small streaks of light with flared ends like the horn of trumpet.
  • This is not about becoming spritely, so much as a little celestial.
  • Posy wished there was some ingenious sprite hovering somewhere just waiting to sprinkle similar inspirational magic dust on her love life. TICKLED PINK
  • TGFs have been correlated with lightning strikes and may be related to visible phenomena that occur in the upper atmosphere over thunderstorms, such as red sprites and blue jets.
  • The treacherous sprites gradually assemble outside the headquarters, wearing jeans and holding the chains.
  • I recall forgoing Sprite, my soda of choice, during an early health crusade at age 13, but I have since recovered enough to appreciate sugar, along with butter, oil, and cream, for their gastronomical value. Columbia Spectator - News, sports, and entertainment coverage for the Morningside Heights community in New York City.
  • Around her flutter the sprites, the tiny faeries who so entertained two little girls in Cottingley.
  • While the sprites that run the weather here are capricious, their temperaments are contained within some very strict limits.
  • The big trees that dissolve into dark fields insinuate a sort of grim spirituality, a hint of wood sprites or trolls.
  • SassLessCoffee: Now have RequestReduce compile your .less, .sass, .scss and .coffee files before minifying and bundling them Unit Testing ASP.Net Http Handlers and a discussion of Auto Mocking and the Testable pattern Adding CSS Inheritance Resolution to RequestReduce Sprite Generation Process Site Home
  • Using a combination of rolling 3D terrain and sprite-based units, it allowed for the realistic depiction of a combined-force army consisting of thousands of cavalry, archers, pikemen and swordsmen, allowing them to be moved and positioned flexibly. Archive 2010-01-01
  • The graphics are very impressive indeed: large, detailed sprites with very fluid animations, a bursting colour palette and some of the most lush backgrounds I've ever seen make this game quite a visual treat.
  • The incubus of legend may have been a wicked sprite driven by uncontrolled lust, but the only thing you'll covet after watching its movie namesake is a pair of cosmetic tweezers and a copy of Demons for Dummies.
  • ‘O brasier-light350 and joy of the sprite, let us hear thy lovely voice, whereby all that hearken are ravished with delight.’ The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
  • 'What a wicked sort of sprite is a female wit!' cried Sir Sedley, Camilla: or, A Picture of Youth
  • The lively little sprite Ariel had nothing mischievous in his nature, except that he took rather too much pleasure in tormenting an ugly monster called Caliban, for he owed him a grudge because he was the son of his old enemy Sycorax. Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 8
  • If I want a sweeter taste to the fish, dip the fish in sprite or 7up and then batter, the sugar in the soda will stick to the meat and give it a nice, sweet flavoring. Adding on to BeeKeepers question, what is your favorite way to prepare fish. Seasonings, ingredients, cooking method, etc......
  • A disturbingly perky androgynous sprite tries to spread the joy of music to an unpopular putz named Buzz.
  • But instead of having a human stuntman perform the scene, which would have grounded it in reality, it's just a glorified computer sprite doing the hopping.
  • He was a delicate child, shy, sensitive, elflike, who wandered through the woods near his home, in Sussex, on the lookout for sprites and hobgoblins. Outlines of English and American Literature : an Introduction to the Chief Writers of England and America, to the Books They Wrote, and to the Times in Which They Lived
  • One snap later and he was free, climbing upwards and outwards, the sprite's dagger clutched between his teeth.
  • Svedka vodka will have a number of special canine-themed cocktails for $5 each, such as the German Shepard Shirley Temple, with cherry vodka, ginger and grenadine, and the Bubbly Bulldog, made from clementine/orange vodka, Sprite and champagne. Nightlife Agenda: Chromeo, Monotonix and parties for charity
  • Examples of compact plants are ‘Goldflame’ spirea, dwarf Serbian spruce, and ‘Red Sprite’ winterberry.
  • Out on the road, the Juke is a strange sprite of a trucklet: diminutive, determined, loud, eager, winsome, but — given its dinky wheelbase, stiff antiroll bars, dearth of wheel travel and oddly discombobulated roll axes and center of gravity — also a trifle uncoordinated. Nissan's Jazzy Juke, Imperfect on Purpose
  • The gameplay progresses depending on the movement and collision of these sprites.
  • The lively little sprite Ariel had nothing mischievous in his nature, except that he took rather too much pleasure in tormenting an ugly monster called Caliban, for he owed him a grudge because he was the son of his old enemy Scyorax. The Children's Hour, v 5. Stories From Seven Old Favorites
  • His illustrations now incorporated humor, history and fantasy, with a subsidiary line — since meeting the painter Richard Dadd — in sprites and fairies, that gave him licence to express his Celtic fancifulness and aversion to modernity without adopting the grave religiosity of the Pre-Raphaelites. 'The Man Who Created Sherlock Holmes:
  • Chirayu: *Keeps two tall glasses on the glass table, pours a large one of Smirnoff in both glasses, puts two ice-cubes in each glass, pours Sprite, lifts the glass and says cheers, to all the beautiful girls in town who are single and lonely, from all the handsome guys who are single and available, now it's your turn to say cheers*) :-) Archive 2004-12-01
  • ‘She is a sylph; a water-sprite,’ said Anest, who knew from experience to be direct and honest in his dealing with elves.
  • Always tasty is frozen juices made with sparling water, club soda, or sprite. Shoo Fly - SpouseBUZZ
  • On top of everything else is the blatant product placement: A golf ball is turned just right to reveal the Nike swoosh, a Sprite can appears in closeup, and then comes the revelation that Mimzy has Intel Inside ™. Movie Review: The Last Mimzy
  • And here, as the name formulated itself, that little sprite of Brahms, that intermezzo, once more leapt to my side out of the parched fields. Alone
  • PETER", your rite, eye guest wii shuld view everyding wif a mor "possitive [sic]" eye in sprite of there mediokrity -- mush like your komments. Heroes Season 2 Officially Sucks
  • Not Sprite, which they call lemonade here, but REAL lemonade. Lily-white Diary Entry
  • He lives in another world -- has, as _Sir Anthony Absolute_ says, a sun and moon of his own -- a realm of fairies, with attending sprites to perform his every compassable wish. Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 1, November 13, 1841
  • When I was that bitty little sprite's age, I was already this tall and swiftly approximating this shape. Mrissa: They don't make things like they used to, Part 712.
  • The nature of sprites and pixies was a very innocent one, more attune to that of children than creatures of magic.
  • “Nay;” and quoth the other, “He who owned this skull was a King of the Kings of the world, who dealt tyrannously with his subjects, specially wronging the weak and wasting his time in heaping up the rubbish of this world, till Allah took his sprite and made the fire his abiding-site; and this is his head.” The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
  • She was a thin little sprite with an oval face and deep set blue-grey eyes fringed by abundant dark lashes. NOBLE BEGINNNINGS
  • The user simply drags programming instructions from the pallet into the center column and connects them together to build up one or more programs that control the current sprite, which is displayed at the top. LXer Linux News
  • She shoved past a merchant selling amulets to ward against evil entities and demonic sprites.
  • I looked at the tracks and saw that little goblins, imps, fairies, and sprites had been in my house.
  • The little girl is so lovely that I call her a sprite.
  • Thus mean in state and calm in sprite My fishful pond is my delight. Illustrations of Sterne: with other essays and verses
  • The sprite in the centre of the balustrade is the most winsome of the company. Correggio A Collection Of Fifteen Pictures And A Portrait Of The Painter With Introduction And Interpretation
  • MukDonulz 4 teh chikee nugeez an teh frize an teh Sprite. I lickz my own butt. - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger?
  • It had high mountains where dragons slept in dark caves and low valleys where tiny sprites slept under toadstools.
  • Under our world exists a chaotic, quarrelsome and crowded underground society of fearsome but stupid goblins, officious gnomes, sprites, technically adept centaurs and other creatures.
  • But every minute, an impish sprite takes one ball back out, always extracting the lowest-numbered ball in the bucket.
  • The sprite was a few feet behind him — he had no idea how the stupid thing got there — holding its bow and actually laughing at him! The Woods Out Back
  • Felicity, ‘a spunky, spritely girl growing up in Virginia in 1774,’ visits a local plantation where there are clearly slaves; the issue never arises.
  • ` soothsayer, 'galloglass, Irish and Gaelic galloglach ` foreign youth,' which took on the meaning of ` soldier, 'glen from Irish and Gaelic gleann, earlier glenn ` mountain-valley,' kern from Old Irish ceitern ` band of foot-soldiers, 'leprechaun from Irish lupracan ` sprite,' loch from Irish loch VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol II No 2
  • He was lying tightly restrained on his back while some maenadic space-sprite executed a victory dance on his chest. Pawns and Symbols
  • He reaches the ball a step ahead of an agile sprite named Molly, whose ponytail flows behind her baseball cap.
  • Most of them were in the Sprites 'own language, selected from the terms Hantis had bestowed on the little Sprite muck-a-muck. The Wizard Of Karres
  • Boston Celtics high-flier Gerald Green, a Sprite Slam Dunk participant, will wear a special green edition of the Reebok Unanimous Mid. NBA All-Stars are runway models on court
  • Sergio Martino is spritely and lively in his discussion of this early project.
  • The "bugeye" Sprite, or more formally, the Austin Healey Sprite Mark I, was originally designed by the famous sports car designer Dennis Healey. Undefined
  • In England the hobgoblin was as helpful a sprite as the brownie.
  • Eventually, the groove of WRONG disappeared as if some minor curse from an obnoxious word sprite was lifted, and we eventually were able to recall and retain the inordinately oh so complex word… gazebo. The Gazebo Effect « The Life and Times of Organic Mama
  • They were once the ancient guardians of the forests, along with dryads and sprites.
  • Out on the road, the Juke is a strange sprite of a trucklet: diminutive, determined, loud, eager, winsome, but — given its dinky wheelbase, stiff antiroll bars, dearth of wheel travel and oddly discombobulated roll axes and center of gravity — also a trifle uncoordinated. Nissan's Jazzy Juke, Imperfect on Purpose
  • The leprechaun is a pygmy sprite dressed in green, sometimes living in wine cellars, sometimes farmhouses. RUBYRED AND PARSHOOTER
  • This is a beautiful song from studio ghibli movie, Sprited away. I play it on my ocarina.
  • I love the ultra-portability of my supersmall and spritely Sony Vaio PCG-SRX77 and I'm sad to part with it. Boing Boing: July 25, 2004 - July 31, 2004 Archives
  • Outside, drinking a Sprite while the others drank margaritas, Christopher covertly assessed Cathy Switzer. FAMILY BLESSINGS
  • ‘Yes ma'am,’ the sprite mocked before flittering and tinkling out of the door and joining the numerous other sprites who had finished waking their masters.
  • Naturalistic process is paramount; albums come with pithy back-stories haloed in hazy traceries of light, flickering with pastoral forest music, and whispering tape-hiss sprites.
  • In the cockpit, long associated with merry, mischievous sprites of "middies," there had been for many a year the representation of a funeral urn, with the sentence, "Here Nelson died. Life of Her Most Gracious Majesty the Queen — Volume 1
  • In every case the parody is pitch perfect, from the awkward Japlish text that punctuates the intro and outro of each title, to the expressive sprite work and authentic in-game fonts. Eurogamer
  • These mischievous Dubbies bear much resemblance in their natures and habits to those sprites which Heywood, in his Heirarchie, calls pugs or hobgoblins: Bracebridge Hall, or The Humorists
  • ‘Many an old wood,’ Edwin Waugh claimed, ‘many a retired clough and running stream, many a lonely well and ancient building is still the reputed haunt of some old local sprite or boggart.’
  • They are but one of the many hidden groups that still cling to the ancient ways of pure magic; that is, they are among one of many groups (which include elves, sylphs, sprites, fairies, etc.) that took part in inventing magic.
  • The graphics are 2D sprites and tiled backgrounds instead of a 3D engine that most modern games use.
  • He reaches the ball a step ahead of an agile sprite named Molly, whose ponytail flows behind her baseball cap.
  • They were once the ancient guardians of the forests, along with dryads and sprites.
  • Meanwhile, on the consumer side, MIDP now supports advanced phone features such as 3D graphics, sprites and polyphonic sound, reinforcing the technology's credentials as an emerging gaming platform.
  • Just above this point we pass the swiftest rapids on the route, where the river widens, and each side of the bank is beautiful in its wooded picturesqueness, while the waters rush, in foaming, surging, tumbling confusion, over the rugged rocks, or dart between them like a merry band of water-sprites chasing each other in gleesome frolic. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 07, No. 39, January, 1861
  • It will also be the first time that the ship has carried an AS35OB Squirrel helicopter, having previously embarked Seahawk and Seasprite.

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