"A sylph is a fairy made of air who likes to play cruel tricks on little girls.". From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2009-01-01] Reference
But they don't call the sylph-like Ms. Middleton Weighty Katie,'' if you gather my drift. From Wordnik.com. [Boston.com Top Stories] Reference
Your sylph is a delightful girl, but you must learn to be more light-hearted when you call on her. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2009-01-01] Reference
The sylph changed direction, and began to bob about. From Wordnik.com. [The Sky Is Falling] Reference
I will devote my time to the enhancement of this sylph. From Wordnik.com. [The Shadow of the Torturer]
"I see where I grow thin and sylph-like," beamed Jerry. From Wordnik.com. [Marjorie Dean, College Sophomore] Reference
She had the figure of a sylph, and the purse of a nabob. From Wordnik.com. [Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 1, November 6, 1841,] Reference
The sylph took it in her delicate hand, and began to eat. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 01, No. 03, January, 1858] Reference
Mrs Veneering, always charmed by this rattling sylph, cries. From Wordnik.com. [Our Mutual Friend] Reference
But no sylph came again; no form rivaled the zephyr before me. From Wordnik.com. [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 55, No. 342, April, 1844] Reference
"You just saw a sylph, are you going to disbelieve in my apples?". From Wordnik.com. [The Outstretched Shadow] Reference
It was in vain, "Fate urged the shears, and cut the sylph in twain.". From Wordnik.com. [English Literature for Boys and Girls] Reference
But Mrs. Hakim weighs a good thirteen stone, while Hannah is a sylph. From Wordnik.com. [the mission song]
"You look like a sylph to-night, Anne," said he, as she danced about him. From Wordnik.com. [The Garies and Their Friends] Reference
I hastened home to feast my eyes once more on the lovely form of my sylph. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 01, No. 03, January, 1858] Reference
Which simply raises the question of why, in other pics, she's such a sylph. From Wordnik.com. [Election Central Sunday Roundup] Reference
Even to the last, one wretched sylph struggling to save the lock clung to it. From Wordnik.com. [English Literature for Boys and Girls] Reference
Ariel glided under my roof in the form of a sylph who foresaw every want of mine. From Wordnik.com. [The Magic Skin] Reference
Whence that sylph-like lightness which seems to negative the laws of gravitation?. From Wordnik.com. [Scenes from a Courtesan's Life] Reference
“Did mortal ever look upon eyes like hers, or view a more sylph-like figure?”. From Wordnik.com. [The Great Hoggarty Diamond] Reference
We always think of fat people as heavy, but he could have danced against a sylph. From Wordnik.com. [The Man Who Was Thursday] Reference
He tells how her guardian sylph brings a morning dream to warn her of coming danger. From Wordnik.com. [English Literature for Boys and Girls] Reference
"Cricky! it looks about as much like a sylph as -- well, as Mary Ann does!" said Jim. From Wordnik.com. [Apples, Ripe and Rosy, Sir] Reference
At once, there was a feeling of growing, and the sylph began to shrink away from them. From Wordnik.com. [The Sky Is Falling] Reference
As he ended speaking, a sylph-like figure, with long golden ringlets, floated past them. From Wordnik.com. [A Love Story] Reference
The sylph that found them wasn't scared by the Scotch, but there was enough for all of them. From Wordnik.com. [The Sky Is Falling] Reference
Let us seek to trace out the daily diet of a sylph, or a sylph disposed to materialize itself. From Wordnik.com. [The physiology of taste; or Transcendental gastronomy. Illustrated by anecdotes of distinguished artists and statesmen of both continents by Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin. Translated from the last Paris edition by Fayette Robinson.] Reference
The fact was, the Parisians, accustomed to the dreamy and sylph-like pirouettings of Cerito and. From Wordnik.com. [The Magnificent Montez From Courtesan to Convert] Reference
The thing was probably another sylph, strong enough to move them in their present reduced size. From Wordnik.com. [The Sky Is Falling] Reference
"My dear," Ruth said, "if you show us a sylph-like form in time to make the freshman eight ----". From Wordnik.com. [Ruth Fielding At College or The Missing Examination Papers] Reference
He noticed this time that there was no sylph, and his breathing seemed to be no worse than usual. From Wordnik.com. [The Sky Is Falling] Reference
Why, Dr. Slop's abdominal sesquipedality was sylph-like grace to the Lambertian girth she displays. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 17, No. 100, February, 1866] Reference
Had she been a sylph the prospect would have been most untempting, but a two-hundred-and-fifty-pounder!. From Wordnik.com. [Lippincott's Magazine, Vol. 22, August, 1878] Reference
At last, in evil moment, the most angelic, sylph-like form came all too near our friend who wore the bangle. From Wordnik.com. [The Argosy Vol. 51, No. 2, February, 1891] Reference
"Wait in this spot until I return," was all that I heard, before he and the sylph had waltzed away far down the hall. From Wordnik.com. [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 55, No. 342, April, 1844] Reference
One word again made me a captive: that word was now "Lafontaine;" and at the same moment I saw the sylph bounding to my side. From Wordnik.com. [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 55, No. 342, April, 1844] Reference
Once they observed a sylph-like form, but she was not the person; and so they lived on, each night hearing the same divine music. From Wordnik.com. [Incidents of the War: Humorous, Pathetic, and Descriptive] Reference
I found the sylph bathing, as it were, with an expression of pleasure animating her features, in the brilliant light which surrounded her. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 01, No. 03, January, 1858] Reference
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