Meanings of sylph (sylphs) in anglès

Méphistophélès summons gnomes and sylphs to fill his mind with lovely fancies.

Pope's sylphs, as Mr. Elwin says, are legitimate descendants from Shakespeare's fairies.

The sylphs he promised to show his wife-Thistime, it will work, Rose.

The young maidens were generally of pleasing features, and graceful as sylphs in form.

And a drink strong enough to scare away the sylphs.

A capricious mind can never rule the sylphs, nor a fickle disposition the undines.'

Besides the sylphs, gnomes, undines, and salamanders, he acknowledged various ranks and orders of demons.

I am given, as with the sylphs of old.

Shaw's 20th-century backwoods are a tatty double of the painted rural idylls where sylphs of yore romped.

Was the introduction of the sylphs fortunate?

Yes, by legend young witches had such hair; sylphs, undines and all of the airy race of Lilith.

Have the fleshly naiads, the muscular Tritons, the wanton Zephyrs, the diaphanous transparency of our water-sprites and sylphs?

I'll wait-thesylphs of the evening will soon come and sprinkle the thirsty flowers with their vapors of dew.

She will also be "one of the sylphs" in La Sylphide and a swan in Swan Lake.

I was forgetting where and who I was, to live the life of elves and sylphs, the fanciful creation of Scandinavian superstitions.

Water-nymphs, sea-sprites, and earth-goblins, undines, gnomes, and sylphs dwelt there as sentinels of a sacred trust, and Eline was content to go.