Lexicographical Neighbors of Spights
Literary usage of Spights
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Etymologicon Magnum, Or Universal Etymological Dictionary, on a New Plan by Walter Whiter (1800)
"Dromio. O for my beads! I cross me for a sinner. " This is the fairyland; O,
spight of spights! " We talk with Goblins, OWLS, ..."
2. The Sonnets by William Shakespeare (2001)
"14. spights] Spight Gild.-Evans. 9. robb'rie] Ben.-Evans, Wynd., STAUNTON (Athenaeum,
January 3, 1874, p. 21) finds "the correctness of the eighth line ..."
3. A Serious Call to a Devout and Holy Life: Adapted to the State and Condition by William Law, Charles Bigg (1899)
"... it is but humour, and temper, or interest, or such a love as Publicans and
Heathens practise. 1 All particular envies and spights, ..."
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