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Meanings of sylph (sylphs) in English
Synonyms
Examples for "sylphid"
Examples for "sylphid"
1
A nymph must rise from the stream, a sylphid from the rose, before I could allow another to steal you from my side.
2
In your case, the man who gives us Eve and Sylphid is an enragé, a fanatic-for-real.
3
But Eve is simply a pitiful woman and Sylphid is a pampered, wicked fat girl with a bison hump.
Usage of sylphs in English
1
Méphistophélès summons gnomes and sylphs to fill his mind with lovely fancies.
2
Pope's sylphs, as Mr. Elwin says, are legitimate descendants from Shakespeare's fairies.
3
The sylphs he promised to show his wife-Thistime, it will work, Rose.
4
The young maidens were generally of pleasing features, and graceful as sylphs in form.
5
And a drink strong enough to scare away the sylphs.
6
A capricious mind can never rule the sylphs, nor a fickle disposition the undines.'
7
Besides the sylphs, gnomes, undines, and salamanders, he acknowledged various ranks and orders of demons.
8
I am given, as with the sylphs of old.
9
Shaw's 20th-century backwoods are a tatty double of the painted rural idylls where sylphs of yore romped.
10
Was the introduction of the sylphs fortunate?
11
Yes, by legend young witches had such hair; sylphs, undines and all of the airy race of Lilith.
12
Have the fleshly naiads, the muscular Tritons, the wanton Zephyrs, the diaphanous transparency of our water-sprites and sylphs?
13
I'll wait-thesylphs of the evening will soon come and sprinkle the thirsty flowers with their vapors of dew.
14
She will also be "one of the sylphs" in La Sylphide and a swan in Swan Lake.
15
I was forgetting where and who I was, to live the life of elves and sylphs, the fanciful creation of Scandinavian superstitions.
16
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.
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Sylphs through the time