Tung-ak was the ruler of the lesser spirits of Mongolian mythology.
He would not be happy at having to make do with any lesser spirit.
They had to be ferocious ones, because even the concealed, muted magic crystal would have stopped any lesser spirits from attacking him.
There is a greater or lesser spirit in everything.
He repeats, paraphrases, and parodies himself with an abandon that in a lesser spirit would be suicidal.
Greed I leave to lesser spirits, he told himself.
Toot was a lesser spirit in the area, sort of a dockworker of the Nevernever.
Then together, the three Gods created the Menehune, the lesser spirits to be their messengers and servants.
The lesser spirit has no need to fear dissolution, for the greater fire takes its essence from the changing sparks that shine within its flame.
The traumas of Argentina would have dampened a lesser spirit than Bud's.