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"ref": "c. 1872, a Knight's tour cryptotour poem, possibly by Howard Staunton, lines 1 and 2",
"text": "The man that hath no love of chess/Is truth to say a sorry wight."
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"ref": "1885, Richard F. Burton, The Supplemental Nights to the Thousand Nights and a Night, Night 532",
"text": "[…]Alaeddin ate and drank and was cheered and after he had rested and had recovered spirits he cried, \"Ah, O my mother, I have a sore grievance against thee for leaving me to that accursed wight who strave to compass my destruction and designed to take my life. Know that I beheld Death with mine own eyes at the hand of this damned wretch, whom thou didst certify to be my uncle;[…]",
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"ref": "1789, William Blake, A Dream, lines 14–16",
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"ref": "1869, William Morris, Eiríkr Magnússon, transl., Grettis Saga: The Story of Grettir the Strong, F. S. Ellis, page 49",
"text": "Everything in their way was kicked out of place, the barrow-wight setting on with hideous eagerness; Grettir gave back before him for a long time, till at last it came to this, that he saw it would not do to hoard his strength any more; now neither spared the other, and they were brought to where the horse-bones were, and thereabout they wrestled long.",
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"A wraith-like creature."
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"(fantasy) A wraith-like creature."
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"Brave, valorous, strong."
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"ref": "a. 1828, “Leesome Brand”, in Peter Buchan, editor, Ancient Ballads and Songs of the North of Scotland, volume 1, published 1828, page 39, lines 21–24",
"text": "Ye do you to my father's stable, / Where steeds do stand baith wight and able; / Strike ane o' them upo' the back, / The swiftest will gie his head a wap.",
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