The young women have none of the sylphlike appearance of the. From Wordnik.com. [Captain Canot or, Twenty Years of an African Slaver] Reference
I felt bad that her heart had been broken when she was sylphlike. From Wordnik.com. [THE EXTRA MAN] Reference
"I've always been a good eater," says sylphlike Bernstein, a former ballet dancer. From Wordnik.com. [Ellen Kanner: Meatless Monday: Discovering Common Threads] Reference
How can you wish this upon a lady of such sylphlike symmetry as the fragrant and delightful Mrs. D. From Wordnik.com. [Overshadowed by Bow Wow] Reference
Not one of these experiments pans out: The best of them makes Brundlefly seem graceful and sylphlike. From Wordnik.com. [The Official “Win a Copy of Coffee Shop” Contest: Your Scathing Book Review « Whatever] Reference
Camilla watched Janet walk with a compelling grace, a swaying movement, sylphlike despite the burden she carried. From Wordnik.com. [Call Of The Heart]
After a minute or so frolicking with his sylphlike courtesans, Ganz made an exaggerated show of noticing that Quinn was still there. From Wordnik.com. [Harbinger] Reference
This sylphlike, sleepy-eyed creature with her elaborately coiffed hair of platinum silk bore no resemblance at all to the very vibrant and earthy sorceress he'd hired. From Wordnik.com. [The Oathbound]
Sales were given an extra fillip from a high profile advertising campaign featuring sylphlike Sixties icon Twiggy, whip-thin supermodel Erin O'Connor and Laura Bailey. From Wordnik.com. [Say It Softly: Rose's M&S Continues To 'Recover'] Reference
More often, we meet for a bite at the odd café on Beverly Blvd. under the pretext of giving some truly sylphlike barely eighteen-year-old “actress” this or that “script,” naturally. From Wordnik.com. [Hollywood Savage] Reference
In a 1961 photograph of Burroughs in Tangiers (with poet Gregory Corso and composer and author Paul Bowles), there are also two sylphlike boys, just past adolescence, crouching in the background. From Wordnik.com. ['Beat Memories' at the National Gallery: Photography review by Philip Kennicott] Reference
Miranda, a sylphlike 11-year-old who was pinned beneath her crumpled home and watched her father die, says her favorite thing about the arts program was "for sure talking and drawing about my life.". From Wordnik.com. [Sarah Ryley: After Earthquake, Children's Resilience Revealed in Play] Reference
The cover of the book, which features the sylphlike Ms. Coulter in a sleeveless black dress standing against a white background above the word "Guilty" (in all caps) is nearly identical to her last book, Godless. From Wordnik.com. [Drudge: Godless Author Coulter Now Guilty] Reference
No one's pretending he is sylphlike but, equally, the old Smith. From Wordnik.com. [Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph] Reference
A graceful, sylphlike figure floated past in the arms of a conscious Adonis. From Wordnik.com. [Pine Needles, 1921.] Reference
Her vest and train of white satin did not conceal her sylphlike form and delicate feet. From Wordnik.com. [Sketches] Reference
Alack! how becoming were these concoctions to minxes with fair hair and sylphlike frames!. From Wordnik.com. [The Marriage of William Ashe] Reference
Through her self-parody, Alley dramatizes the opprobrium of obesity in the land of sylphlike starlets. From Wordnik.com. [Ms. Magazine Online] Reference
For at this writing in those parts the slender, sylphlike string-bean is not playing a minor part, as with us. From Wordnik.com. [Europe Revised] Reference
Yet, even while her spirit drooped with that apprehension, the picture was but the masculine counterpart of Sylph Etherege's sylphlike beauty. From Wordnik.com. [Sylph Etherege (From: "The Snow Image and Other Twice-Told Tales")] Reference
She had thrown a white shawl over her head and shoulders, and looked adorably sylphlike as she turned on hearing his footsteps; the moonlight shone on her face and was reflected in her eyes. From Wordnik.com. [Number Seventeen] Reference
1927 Birthday of Barbara Cook, sylphlike ingenue of the 1950s who created lead roles in. From Wordnik.com. [Playbill.com : News] Reference
Not that I mind, but if you're going to keep that sylphlike figure you'd better go on a diet. ". From Wordnik.com. [The Lani People] Reference
“I sat here,” Henry said, “so that we could be next to these sylphlike, gap-toothed dairy maidens from Duluth High School. From Wordnik.com. [THE EXTRA MAN] Reference
Her heart was broken when she was sylphlike. From Wordnik.com. [THE EXTRA MAN] Reference
Playboy's first issue and found that "while real American women have steadily eaten their way up the BMI slope - just like American men - Playmates have gone from a sylphlike. From Wordnik.com. [SPIKE Featured Videos] Reference
She was sylphlike, her element was air. From Wordnik.com. [PopMatters]
& #160 And yet, when on thy sylphlike form I gaze. From Wordnik.com. [Alamance; Or, the Great and Final Experiment viii, 9-151, [1] p.] Reference
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