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Значения термина sylph (sylphs) на английском

A mythological creature associated with the element of air.

Использование термина sylphs на английском
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Méphistophélès summons gnomes and sylphs to fill his mind with lovely fancies.
A Book of Operas: Their Histories, Their Plots, and Their Music
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Pope's sylphs, as Mr. Elwin says, are legitimate descendants from Shakespeare's fairies.
Hours in a Library, Volume 1 / New Edition, with Additions
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The sylphs he promised to show his wife-Thistime, it will work, Rose.
Sympathy for the devil
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The young maidens were generally of pleasing features, and graceful as sylphs in form.
The Adventures of the Chevalier De La Salle and His Companions, ...
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And a drink strong enough to scare away the sylphs.
The Sky Is Falling
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A capricious mind can never rule the sylphs, nor a fickle disposition the undines.'
The Magician
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Besides the sylphs, gnomes, undines, and salamanders, he acknowledged various ranks and orders of demons.
Memoirs of Extraordinary Popular Delusions — Volume 3
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I am given, as with the sylphs of old.
Magic Kingdom for Sale - SOLD!
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Shaw's 20th-century backwoods are a tatty double of the painted rural idylls where sylphs of yore romped.
The Guardian
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Was the introduction of the sylphs fortunate?
A History of English Literature
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Yes, by legend young witches had such hair; sylphs, undines and all of the airy race of Lilith.
The Thing from the Lake
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Have the fleshly naiads, the muscular Tritons, the wanton Zephyrs, the diaphanous transparency of our water-sprites and sylphs?
Prefaces and Prologues to Famous Books / with Introductions, Not...
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I'll wait-thesylphs of the evening will soon come and sprinkle the thirsty flowers with their vapors of dew.
Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great - Volume 06 / Little J...
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She will also be "one of the sylphs" in La Sylphide and a swan in Swan Lake.
The Irish Times
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I was forgetting where and who I was, to live the life of elves and sylphs, the fanciful creation of Scandinavian superstitions.
A Journey into the Interior of the Earth
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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.
The Strange Little Girl: A Story for Children
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