What is "sprites"

Usage examples of "sprites".

SPIRIT OF THE YEARS Hold what ye list, fond believing Sprites, You cannot swerve the pulsion of the Byss, Which thinking on, yet weighing not Its thought, Unchecks Its clock-like laws.

Fener, but the paths the sprites took to those stumps touched not a single tattooed line.

Up to now, though, he had always considered that innate ability to mentally connect with wild animals the exclusive domain of those surface elves, sprites, halflings, gnomes, and humans who had trained in the woodland way.

Then, of course, he had played with the other sprites of the vale, and taunted the pixies, and followed the dryads.

In fact, for the first time, he wondered what had become of the pixies and sprites and other faerie creatures of the vale.

And then came the singers, tiny glowing winged sprites, flying through the trees like tiny stars come down to earth.

The sprites were human in shape, but only a foot or so long, with great, pastel-colored wings.

And then suddenly the sprites were gone, surging away into the Forest, their song dying away in the gloom and the distance.

Here sprites and imps lived and died, and history itself sank deep beneath the virulent leaf waste that gathered at the base of twisted, prehistoric trees.

They live in caves and fountains, and it is said that some are not really sprites, but are lovely women who have been enchanted.

Spreading out to either side, the arches were guarded by little bands of pixies, armed with small but sturdy bows, and sprites, who would fight with their silvery swords.