| 单词 | sylph |
| 例句 | “A monster, a maiden, a sylph of the ice. You kissed me, whispered stories in my ear. You sang to me and held me as I slept. Your laugh chased me into waking.” Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z The knockers— hardy mountain dwellers accustomed to the cold—carried those who would have otherwise frozen: some of the dryads, or the winged sylphs, whose bodies were limp in the wintry air. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z This all comes together in her first solo, just after the curtain rises, when the sylph shows us how light and supernatural she is, and how much in love, with a skimming, spinning dance. Peter Martins, dipping into his past while bounding into the future 2016-02-25T05:00:00Z And the Sylph now clinches matters by removing her outer sylph layer. Dance Review: Eglevsky Ballet?s Rare ?? la Fran?aix? by Balanchine 2010-08-22T22:30:00Z This Galadriel is not the cosmically attuned sylph we know from the films. Who needs Westeros? "Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power" is a spectacular return to Middle-earth 2022-09-01T04:00:00Z Who wouldn’t want the chance to be a slippery, flitting postmodern sylph? Review: Stephen Petronio Company Revives ‘Glacial Decoy,’ With Its Supple Sylphs 2016-03-09T05:00:00Z None of them were sylphs; the two larger women were best at getting the jeans up over their hips. Dance Review: Symmetry, Motion and Divergent Aesthetics 2012-07-02T22:15:33Z Neither had a mirror, forcing me to model her selections, some of which exposed large swaths of flesh, next to a gorgeous sylph with slightly flared nostrils and curtains of glossy brown hair. Critical Shopper: Yigal Azrouël Opens Uptown 2012-10-16T15:22:35Z The sylph advised going to the Home Depot and having cedar custom-fit to one’s closet door. Critical Shopper: Yigal Azrouël Opens Uptown 2012-10-16T15:22:35Z Only in the light “Chopiniana,” a dream of sylphs and a Romantic poet in a wood at night, does Fokine’s original company give his dance theater any substance. Dance Review: Mariinsky Ballet Dances Fokine at Kennedy Center - Review 2012-01-23T22:57:43Z Her head looks particularly beautiful in the sylph headdress, but, though she certainly uses her eyes, their outlines are almost invisible. Review: New York City Ballet Performs Bournonville Classics at Spring Gala 2015-05-08T04:00:00Z Willowy sylphs force one another to the margins; zaftig Venuses collide like Sumo wrestlers. Art Review: ?Eva Hesse Spectres 1960? at the Brooklyn Museum - Review 2011-10-06T22:49:44Z When the tales are over, the opera’s haunting Barcarolle is played again while Hoffmann sees four Stellas, all of them Romantic sylphs danced by Shearer. ‘The Tales of Hoffmann,’ Newly Restored, Opens at Film Forum 2015-03-11T04:00:00Z Ballet upholds narrow ideals for everyone: for men, the archetype of the chivalrous prince; for women, the elusive swan or sylph. Lesbians in Ballet: ‘Has Anyone Like Me Ever Walked These Halls?’ 2021-06-01T04:00:00Z The sylph jumps with ronds de jambe sautés, quivering rapid circles of the foot in the air, with hummingbird speed; Ms. Woodward makes them gleam. Sugarplum Fairies and Cavaliers Move Ahead at City Ballet 2016-02-18T05:00:00Z Ashley Laracey is another distinctive young sylph, while the strong Brittany Pollack has begun to shed the seeming callowness of youth. Critic’s Notebook: Taking Stock of City Ballet’s Secret Weapon 2014-03-03T22:56:00Z Then as now, more than 20 models stood on the catwalk on daises of differing heights, each sylph in a hip-jutting contrapposto. | Partying, Not Just Posing 2010-09-16T17:38:00Z The beauty of the sylph corps de ballet affects him as a revelation. Dance Review: A Vision Glimpsed Through the Window, and Its Consequences 2011-06-20T22:07:30Z “But then I realized that I have to be a straight guy looking uncomfortable as a sylph.” Have Any Point Shoes In a Man?s Size 9? 2011-06-03T18:22:07Z In this 1836 ballet, a Scottish laird named James is rude to a witch, who in turn ruins his life and kills his sweetheart, the fairylike sylph of the title. Peter Martins, dipping into his past while bounding into the future 2016-02-25T05:00:00Z When Marie Taglioni, the archetypal sylph of the Romantic era, triumphed in St. Petersburg in the 1830s and ’40s, Russian balletomanes detached her horses from her carriage and drew it themselves. Die-Hard Ballet Fans, Passionate and Partisan 2014-04-25T20:08:08Z And at one point in Act Two, James re-enters and discovers that this forest contains not one sylph but many. City Ballet to Present ‘La Sylphide,’ a Romantic Ballet Standard 2015-05-03T04:00:00Z Her Angel is no sylph, but an athlete and a seeker. Review: In ‘I Married an Angel,’ a 1930s Musical Falls to Earth 2019-03-21T04:00:00Z In the idyllic glade of Act II, she overwhelms him by showing him that she belongs to a whole sylph world. Dance Review: A Vision Glimpsed Through the Window, and Its Consequences 2011-06-20T22:07:30Z A sylph of a singer, Ms. Waters spent a few potent years on jazz’s avant-garde in the 1960s, then vanished. 14 Pop, Rock and Jazz Concerts to Check Out in NYC This Weekend 2018-03-29T04:00:00Z This is the archetype of Romantic ballets, opening with the image of the title sylph kneeling as she contemplates the Scots farmer James asleep in his armchair. At New York City Ballet, Balancing the Art of Transition 2018-10-07T04:00:00Z On his Louis Vuitton fall runway, the designer unveiled a succession of sylphs wearing little more than their sumptuous skivvies and furs. On the Runway Blog: The Bordello Chic Trend 2013-09-12T01:19:01Z Embodying that misty sylph demands “one of the most incredible amounts of strength of any role I’ve ever done.” Peter Martins, dipping into his past while bounding into the future 2016-02-25T05:00:00Z Another sales sylph, a blonde in an eyelet playsuit, was ringing up one of these as someone’s man-friend sat in a nearby chair, inspecting the clientele. Critical Shopper: Swimsuits at Zimmermann and Malia Mills 2012-06-19T18:14:51Z She is no sylph, no ingénue, yet there she is in nothing but a pair of purple underpants, exulting in her physicality as an audience looks on. Review: ‘Fruit Trilogy,’ Eve Ensler’s New Show, Brims With Outrage 2018-06-17T04:00:00Z The ballet as a whole looks very fine, with its legions of kilted, leaping Scotsmen and its drift of white sylphs. Royal Ballet – review 2012-05-22T16:50:36Z As the sylph, a delicate Sterling Hyltin instilled the role with equal parts speed and softness, which lent her springy jumps the diaphanous feel of mist seeping through a forest. Review: ‘La Sylphide’ Is City Ballet’s Bittersweet Valentine 2016-02-14T05:00:00Z Like her fellow sylphs, she is grubby and a little sinister; more like a resident of a landfill site than an ethereal Highland spirit. Highland Fling – review 2013-04-29T17:46:46Z Pieces such as Bleeding Fairies in 1977 deconstructed the ballet stereo-types of swans, nymphs, sylphs and earth mothers in a menstrual riot of radical feminism. Spirit of the underground: dance 2011-01-30T21:30:00Z And with her voluminous arms and lush sense of suspense, Ms. Phelan floated across the stage in dreamlike walks that made her seem more sylph than woman. New York City Ballet Is Back, and the Real Jewels Are the Dancers 2019-09-19T04:00:00Z Though she makes the sylph’s final gestures vivid, this force of nature seems indestructible. Sugarplum Fairies and Cavaliers Move Ahead at City Ballet 2016-02-18T05:00:00Z Ms. Lind and Mr. Saudek have the sort of angel faces and sylph bodies that justify their characters’ mutual narcissism, one in which each becomes a flattering and warping mirror to the other. Theater Review: ‘Stockholm,’ by Bryony Lavery, Dissects a Marriage 2014-03-13T02:00:01Z There’s just one alien element: At his feet kneels a sylph, a winged spirit of the air who has come from the woods. City Ballet to Present ‘La Sylphide,’ a Romantic Ballet Standard 2015-05-03T04:00:00Z His washed-out sylph was the first TV zombie you wanted to hug, cook a shepherd's pie for and help to write his Ucas personal statement. With In The Flesh, BBC3 gave us huggable zombies 2013-04-01T09:45:07Z His talk was to be about sylphs, and, needless to say, I didn’t want to go with you, but she insisted. The Spirits of Abandoned Ambitions 2020-11-10T05:00:00Z “It’s definitely weird,” said Josh Burnham, whose fluid, swooping performance as the poet surrounded by swirling sylphs en blanc ended without the thunderous applause that a good performance of “Les Sylphides” usually gets. Perspective | Why do these ballet dancers dance when there’s no audience? 2020-09-07T04:00:00Z Ori and the Blind Forest sees a catlike, snow-white biped with wings who darts like a sylph across the screen on a journey to revivify an evanescent forest. The 5 Best Xbox One Exclusive Games Right Now 2016-11-07T05:00:00Z Standing about 6 feet 1 and weighing about 220 pounds at the start of his career, he was a sylph of sumo, relying on skill more than heft to win matches. Taiho, Dominant Postwar Sumo Champ, Dies at 72 2013-01-23T03:42:35Z He avers that their small hands and feet would make an English or American girl die with envy, and that they dance like sylphs. The Sea: Its Stirring Story of Adventure, Peril, & Heroism. Volume 3 2012-04-03T02:00:31.900Z His delivery was casual, modest and precise as he described how the sylphs, with their etheric bodies, transmute and neutralize the toxic chemtrails being pumped into the sky by government geo-engineers, multinational corporations and U.S. The Spirits of Abandoned Ambitions 2020-11-10T05:00:00Z A sylph could not have been more amusing. Mysterious Psychic Forces An Account of the Author's Investigations in Psychical Research, Together with Those of Other European Savants 2012-03-28T02:00:29.747Z There were sylphs and nuns, broom-girls and Italian peasants, and a great many in rich Polonaise dresses. Pencillings by the Way Written During Some Years of Residence and Travel in Europe 2012-03-19T02:00:26.650Z If sometimes one reads of the too engrossing attractions for these youths of the sylphs who flit to and fro in the wards, the answer is obvious—‘Evil be to him who evil thinks.’ Social Transformations of the Victorian Age A Survey of Court and Country 2012-02-29T03:00:22.540Z Was ever lace even of fairy queen fashioned so daintily as are the wings of this diaphanous pale green sylph, that flutters in its filmy halo above the grass tips? Eye Spy Afield with Nature Among Flowers and Animate Things 2012-02-24T03:00:23.760Z The girl is as beautiful as a sylph. Unfettered A Novel 2012-02-12T03:00:15.143Z Gnomes, sylphs and nereids are introduced on almost every page, and personification is carried to an extraordinary excess. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 7, Slice 9 "Dagupan" to "David" 2012-02-11T03:03:39.807Z Had it been the “fairy’s spring,” or the “spring of the mountain sylph,” or something of the kind, it would have sounded as it ought, and some charming legend might have been attached. Antigua and the Antiguans, Volume I (of 2) A full account of the colony and its inhabitants from the time of the Caribs to the present day 2012-02-09T03:00:15.267Z ‘According to those gentlemen,’ says Pope, ‘the four elements are inhabited by spirits, which they call sylphs, gnomes, nymphs, and salamanders.’ Witch, Warlock, and Magician Historical Sketches of Magic and Witchcraft in England and Scotland 2012-02-06T03:00:14.350Z My heart bounded with delight, when I at last saw the brilliants flash in my dark hair, mark the contour of my neck, and circle a waist slender as the form of a sylph. Discipline 2012-01-08T03:00:17.620Z Or that the melody's sweet flow Within the radiant creature play'd And those soft wreathing arms of snow And white sylph feet the music made. The International Monthly, Vol. II, No. I December 1, 1850 2011-10-29T02:00:14.677Z He was tied to the gauzy apron-strings of a sylph, or, in plain words, a danseuse. The Jew 2011-10-06T02:00:34.840Z Scarcely seventeen, her slight but rounded figure, and her sweet, mild face, while it struck the beholder with admiration, and riveted his attention, gave the idea of some embodied sylph. Antigua and the Antiguans, Volume I (of 2) A full account of the colony and its inhabitants from the time of the Caribs to the present day 2012-02-09T03:00:15.267Z And what sylph is it,—or what imp?—dulcet, or malignant!—that has drawn me again into the witchery of your charms?' The Wanderer (Volume 4 of 5) or, Female Difficulties 2011-09-17T02:00:32.663Z Never talk to me with mockery of fairyism, witchcraft, and sylphs; the real influence of lovely youth, is a thousand times more wonderful, more potent, and more incredible! The Wanderer (Volume 3 of 5) or, Female Difficulties 2011-09-17T02:00:28.670Z At ten years old she could speak many languages, play on all known instruments, write essays and sermons, dance like a sylph, sing like a nightingale, and make chocolate caramel. The Old-Fashioned Fairy Book 2011-09-09T02:01:11.180Z It is the crypt of the Devil's Garden, and the woman, sylph or demon, who inhabits it is Azrael. 'Midst the Wild Carpathians 2011-09-09T02:00:57.830Z Were they peris, sylphs, fays, or fairies, or a choice selection of mermaids come on shore for a dance? Born to Wander A Boy's Book of Nomadic Adventures 2011-08-31T02:01:32.837Z The nimble sylphs bring from the "Cave of Spleen" a stock of shrieks, and tears, and megrims. English Lands Letters and Kings Queen Anne and the Georges 2011-08-29T02:01:10.603Z But I see, now, they were only recreative little sylphs, amusing themselves with whipping and spurring me on to my own good!' The Wanderer (Volume 3 of 5) or, Female Difficulties 2011-09-17T02:00:28.670Z For there is no mean to take in the true religion, and we must not fall into the extravagances of the gnomes and sylphs of the cabalists. The History of the Life and Adventures of Mr. Duncan Campell A Gentlen, who, tho' Deaf and Dumb, Writes down any Stranger's name at first Sight; 2011-08-14T02:00:22.973Z It is the general laundry of Tampico; and its margin is daily crowded, not with sylphs and naiads, but with a motley set of Indian women, more appropriately compared to ancient sybils, or modern gypsies. Rambles by Land and Water or Notes of Travel in Cuba and Mexico 2011-07-29T02:00:23.127Z "Then indeed do I love the Father in heaven," breathed the sylph, "and I will say now every day and all day, 'Thy will be done' to Him." The Best Psychic Stories 2011-07-13T02:00:21.943Z That little sylph of yours, Mrs. Hamilton, seems inclined to dance for you and herself too. Home Influence A Tale for Mothers and Daughters 2011-07-10T02:00:16.790Z Delicacy like yours should be waited upon by the softness of a sylph. The Heiress; a comedy, in five acts 2011-07-02T02:00:12.813Z Good for me the hour When music, erst a sylph or monster form, Assumed the glory that immortals wear, And sang to me the messages of Heaven. The International Monthly, Volume 4, No. 3, October, 1851 2011-07-02T02:00:11.323Z A sylph, accepted for the run, Not at a weekly wage; Fair as a star when only one Is shining on the stage. Mr. Punch at the Play Humours of Music and the Drama 2011-06-29T02:00:22.990Z Under the deceptive beauty of some of their apparitions, they might find some day the sylphs and fair undines of the Rosicrucians playing in the currents of psychic and odic force. The Best Psychic Stories 2011-07-13T02:00:21.943Z All night, sylphs in beach gear have walked the fashion planks, but they might as well be teasers for Lea. Transgendered Model Lea T.'s Runway Revolution 2011-06-12T14:00:00Z Mr. Dewey looks as if he might; and our Fifth Avenue friend I'm sure is a perfect sylph. On Guard Mark Mallory's Celebration 2011-05-15T02:00:09.877Z "And if I ever get a husband he shall carry it before him into battle," said the merry sylph. Captain Kyd (Vol 1 of 2) or, The Wizard of the Sea 2011-05-06T02:00:10.447Z Gnomes, sylphs, elves, and fairies, and all similar conceptions, escape the possibility of discussion by our ignorance of their properties. Are the Planets Inhabited? 2011-04-24T02:00:07.733Z The creatures evolved in the four kingdoms of earth, air, fire, and water, and called by the Kabalists gnomes, sylphs, salamanders, and undines. The Best Psychic Stories 2011-07-13T02:00:21.943Z In 2008, American news desks, campaign press planes and anchor chairs were crawling with women -- and not just the fascistic sylphs of Fox News and the right. Katie Couric leaving anchor post at CBS News 2011-04-04T12:52:00Z The mountain sylph is heard in the cabin. Blacker's Art of Fly Making, &c. Comprising Angling, & Dyeing of Colours, with Engravings of Salmon & Trout Flies 2011-04-04T02:00:10.823Z There was, besides, an elusiveness and an ethereality about him—as Carlyle expressed it—“a fine tricksy medium between the poet and the wit, half a sylph and half an Ariel ... a fairy fluctuating bark.” Leigh Hunt's Relations with Byron, Shelley and Keats 2011-04-02T02:00:11.477Z She was like a sylph, clothed in robes of pure snowy white, with green ribbons. The Shepherd's Calendar Volume I (of II) 2011-03-05T03:00:28.153Z I paused, highly pleased at the encounter, and the sylph—for it was a sylph whom I met—paused also with a little smile of recognition. The Best Psychic Stories 2011-07-13T02:00:21.943Z Hence it was the constant endeavour of the female spirits to captivate the admiration of men, and of the male gnomes, sylphs, salamanders, and undines to be beloved by a woman. Mysteries of the Rosie Cross Or, the History of that Curious Sect of the Middle Ages, Known as the Rosicrucians; with Examples of their Pretensions and Claims as Set Forth in the Writings of Their Leaders and Disciples 2011-02-23T03:00:32.190Z Her cousin had constructed this miniature arbour, and proud did he appear to see his little sylph reclining under its shade. Afloat in the Forest A Voyage among the Tree-Tops 2011-02-10T03:00:44.790Z His sylph of the air had come to earth. The Promise of Air 2011-02-02T03:00:23.997Z As he stood looking on at the cotillon, taking no part in it, she fluttered up to him, light and airy as any sylph, and led him to the dance. No Surrender 2011-01-29T03:00:22.467Z "Time must have passed slowly with you," said the sylph, "if you call a few years ago 'as of old'." The Best Psychic Stories 2011-07-13T02:00:21.943Z As the sylphs of the seasons tripped their round, In a sacred grove of laurel trees Another fair sylph of the season they found, And they crowned her 'Mary Spenser Pease.' Godey's Lady's Book, Vol. XLII., May 1851 The salamanders and sylphs have no fixed dwellings. Fairy and Folk Tales of the Irish Peasantry How Simplicissimus journeyed with the sylphs to the centre of the earth Chap. xvii.: The Adventurous Simplicissimus being the description of the Life of a Strange vagabond named Melchior Sternfels von Fuchshaim He was beginning to paint the figure of a reclining sylph, when a difficulty arose in his own mind how best to represent such a being of fancy. British Butterfiles Figures and Descriptions of Every Native Species The eyes of the sylph were brilliant with something almost human. The Best Psychic Stories 2011-07-13T02:00:21.943Z Nevertheless, her net personality was far less wearisome than that of many a town-bred sylph. Bye-Ways Occultists, from Paracelsus to Elephas Levi, divide the nature spirits into gnomes, sylphs, salamanders, undines; or earth, air, fire, and water spirits. Fairy and Folk Tales of the Irish Peasantry In her intervals of relaxation she carries cups of beef-tea to the frail sylphs who cannot exist without food between 9 A.M. and 1 P.M. From Sea to Sea Letters of Travel A friend who was present said, 'Give the sylph a butterfly's wing, and then you have it.' British Butterfiles Figures and Descriptions of Every Native Species In like manner exist the undines in water, sylphs in air, and salamanders in fire. The Best Psychic Stories 2011-07-13T02:00:21.943Z There are pageants that may be enacted by young girls alone when fairies and sylphs and angels hold the stage and delight the eye with their many-hued robes and their beautiful movements. The American Country Girl The sylphs are capricious, and of the bilious temperament. Fairy and Folk Tales of the Irish Peasantry It looked like the final scene of an a�rial ballet, when a semicircle is formed by the rosy sylphs who have figured during the representation. The Picturesque Antiquities of Spain Described in a series of letters, with illustrations representing Moorish palaces, cathedrals, and other monuments of art, contained in the cities of Burgos, Valladolid, Toledo, and Seville. Their broad fan-like wings have an airy lightness and grace to which the painter and the poet pay homage, when they endow the sylphs and loves of their fancy with butterfly pinions. The Romance of Natural History, Second Series The elementals of the air, sylphs, are said to be friendly towards man; those of the water, undines, are malicious. The Best Psychic Stories 2011-07-13T02:00:21.943Z All went well till one day she surpassed herself by transforming a certain stately matron into a veritable sylph. To Lhassa at Last She danced like a sylph, she danced right into my heart, Mummie, and there she lives and reigns and has her being—my queen! my queen! A Soldier's Trial An Episode of the Canteen Crusade Its effect is still further heightened by the sylphs’ ballet in waltz time. The Standard Cantatas Their Stories, Their Music, and Their Composers "She wanted but a pair of wings, a dear," said that good woman, "to be a young syrup"—meaning, possibly, young sylph or seraph. Dickens' Stories About Children Every Child Can Read Do you recall in my former book the story of a sylph, Meriline, who was the companion and familiar of a student of magic who lived in the rue de Vaugirard in Paris? The Best Psychic Stories 2011-07-13T02:00:21.943Z She is but a woman, the other is a sylph. The Lion of Janina The Last Days of the Janissaries But know, ye fair, a point concealed with art,25 The sylphs and gnomes are but a woman's heart. The Works of Alexander Pope, Volume 1 New Edition There were quite a number of pretty women, with very fair complexions and winning manners, who danced like sylphs, as what Creole does not? Los Gringos Or, An Inside View of Mexico and California, with Wanderings in Peru, Chili, and Polynesia Her style was "sylph," and so she was gauzy and floating in all her drapery. Confessions Of Con Cregan An Irish Gil Blas I understood little that he said, but all referred to the doctrine of sylphs, undines, salamanders, and gnomes, such as you may find in the dialogues of the Comte de Cabalis. Tales from the German Comprising specimens from the most celebrated authors Dear to the sylphs are the cool shadows thrown By dark clouds wandering round the mountain's zone, Till frightened by the storm and rain they seek Eternal sunshine on each loftier peak. The Birth of the War-God A Poem by Kalidasa Next comes the caste which has care of the metals in the realms of the metal-king, and then follow the flower-gnomes, who are lower in position, as depending on the sylphs. The Serapion Brethren. Vol. II She ran off, more like Io, the sylph, than ever, and Medenham stood there in a brown study. Cynthia's Chauffeur In the center of the great floor the corps de ballet, regiment of sylphs in tulle petticoats and pale-pink tights, performs its characteristic evolutions to the pulsating strains of the opera orchestra. Aurora the Magnificent Awake! ye sylphs of Flora's gorgeous train, To scent the fields, and deck the rising main. Writings in the United Amateur, 1915-1922 Through the broad streets bright sylphs and minstrels rove: Its dames are Goddesses of stream and grove. The Birth of the War-God A Poem by Kalidasa If the Salamander kings are only irascible, the sylph kings proud and haughty, the Undine queens affectionate and jealous, the gnome kings are fierce, cruel, and deceitful. The Serapion Brethren. Vol. II In a day when girls cultivated the sylph, minced in their speech, had numberless affectations, his early choice had possessed a noble, large figure and a lofty dignity. The Gorgeous Isle A Romance; Scene: Nevis, B.W.I. 1842 “But think, Madame, of the sylph’s form that it will give you!” replied Clotilde, in respectably good English. Aurora the Magnificent The machinery of the sylphs is managed with perfect skill, and nothing can be more admirable than the charge delivered by Ariel to the sylphs to guard Belinda from an apprehended but unknown danger. The Age of Pope (1700-1744) Around, wide gardens spread their pleasant bowers, Where the bright Champac opes her fragrant flowers: Dear shades, beloved by the sylphs that roam In dewy evening from their mountain home. The Birth of the War-God A Poem by Kalidasa She really put in an eighteen-hour day as both slavey and sylph, and seemed filled with everlasting patience and jazz. The Gorgeous Girl A daughter of mixed ancestry, yet with her dainty hands and little feet, she seemed descended from sprites or sylphs. The Strollers He could not picture her as a sylph of one hundred and fifty pounds. Philo Gubb, Correspondence-School Detective In 1714 the delightful poem appeared in its present form with the machinery of sylphs and gnomes adopted from the mysteries of the Rosicrucians. The Age of Pope (1700-1744) The beautiful girl, clothed in pink tights and short white skirt, appearing so suddenly before him, looked in the firelight like some fairy sylph. Sielanka: An Idyll No sooner had he done so, that the Devil summoned the most beautiful sylphs to dance before him, and thus to influence Faust's dreams. Operas Every Child Should Know Descriptions of the Text and Music of Some of the Most Famous Masterpieces To a person who merely learned the sounds in these lines by rote, without knowing the sense of the words, all the advantage of the appropriated names and offices of the sylphs would be lost. Practical Education, Volume II The mountain sylph is a fairy, and falls in love with the tenor, a young Scotchman. Music and Some Highly Musical People What sylph would superintend the conveyance of this dust to the nostrils of a belle? The American Quarterly Review, No. 17, March 1831 Softly played the hidden music, and airily danced the little sylph till the silvery chime died away; then, folding her delicate arms, she sank from sight, leaving Daisy breathless with delight. Aunt Jo's Scrap-Bag VI An Old-Fashioned Thanksgiving, Etc. Then the Devil motioned the sylphs away.-61- "Away, ye dainty elves, ye have served my turn to-day, and I shall not forget." Operas Every Child Should Know Descriptions of the Text and Music of Some of the Most Famous Masterpieces No one, who has any sense of propriety, can call these sylphs by wrong names, or put them out of their places. Practical Education, Volume II She was below medium height, but shaped like a sylph and had the airy grace of one. The Orchard of Tears In a pantomime the youngest of them, Nelly, then only about sixteen, was bewitching her many admirers, singing “For he wore a penny paper collar round his throat,” and dancing like a sylph. The Chronicles of a Gay Gordon So of Pope's sylph: Fate urg'd the shears and cut the sylph in twain; But airy substance soon unites again. The Mirror of Taste, and Dramatic Censor, Vol. I, No. 4, April 1810 In despair, Pedro directs his course to Germany, but finds no sylphs or sirens on the banks of the Rhine, while maidens with blue eyes and golden hair are no more abundant there than elsewhere. Lippincott's Magazine, December 1878 AEolian sylphs touch soft their lutes, Brooks tinkle, tinkle past the roots, As Beauty, hidden in the cover, Fingers the stops of her melting flutes. Song-waves O’er red rose and lily fair, And like a sylph I ’m coming With their blossoms in my hair. Victorian Songs Lyrics of the Affections and Nature The waif stepped upon deck as lightly as a mountain sylph. Up The Baltic Young America in Norway, Sweden, and Denmark The genus of sylph to which it belongs is among the most beautiful and graceful in form of the humming-birds. The Western World Picturesque Sketches of Nature and Natural History in North and South America Fleta was attired in small white satin Turkish trowsers, blue muslin and silver embroidered frock, worked sandals, and her hair braided and plaited in long tails behind, and she looked like a little sylph. Japhet in Search of a Father 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, in Their Explorations of the Prairies, Forests, Lakes, and Rivers, of the New World, and Their Interviews with the Savage Tribes, Two Hundred Years Ago The sylphs cannot be said to help or to oppose; and it must be allowed to imply some want of art, that their power has not been sufficiently intermingled with the action. The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D. in Nine Volumes Volume the Eighth: The Lives of the Poets, Volume II Your hair is beaten gold, your eyes are deep and true, your slender little form has all the symmetry and beauty of a sylph. The Root of Evil But see here—” “Belle’s the biggest idiot about her size: there’s no convincing her she’s not a sylph.” At Fault Yes, by legend young witches had such hair; sylphs, undines and all of the airy race of Lilith. The Thing from the Lake Her eyes are yet with visions bright Of sylph and river, flower and fay, Now through a narrow corridor She takes her lonely way. Songs of Childhood Virginia, you who have the face of a houri, the form of a sylph, and the heart of an angel, will you be my wife? Semiramis and Other Plays Semiramis, Carlotta And The Poet Their white gossamer dresses, floating lightly around them as they glide silently along, give them a resemblance to sylphs, or wood-nymphs, all the more as they emerge into the moonlight. The Death Shot A Story Retold Her steps were as light as a sylph's, nothing rattled in the sick-room as she moved about it. Red Rose and Tiger Lily or, In a Wider World And Rosa a sylph that would fit tight in a pork barrel! Shorty McCabe And small blame to him, as Flynn might have said, for before him stood his ideal of a fairy, an angel, a sylph—or anything beautiful that best suits your fancy, reader! Blue Lights Hot Work in the Soudan I wonder whether the inhabitants are as attractive as their residence: so lovely a spot may be the abode of the most graceful of sylphs. Voyages and Travels of Count Funnibos and Baron Stilkin “Large grey eyes, rich brown hair—the complexion of the lily tinged with the rose—a figure a sylph might envy.” The Three Lieutenants They were small dead dragon-flies of the crimson kind called “sylphs.” The Romany Rye a sequel to "Lavengro" The sylph, who was introduced with such curious felicity, is to be punished if he fails to do his duty, by imprisonment in a lady's toilet apparatus. English Literature and Society in the Eighteenth Century The spirits of the elements, the sylphs of the air, the gnomes of the earth, the salamanders of the fire, and the undines of the water, were to him real and undoubted existences in Nature. German Culture Past and Present Pope's sylphs, as Mr. Elwin says, are legitimate descendants from Shakespeare's fairies. Hours in a Library, Volume I. (of III.) For the moment the wife and the father-in-law were combining their efforts to convince a very stout, elderly gentleman that check trousers would make him look like a sylph. With Those Who Wait The sylphs are warned by omens that some misfortune impends; but they don't know what. Alexander Pope English Men of Letters Series Now I see the lovely maiden, That my young heart captive led; Like a sylph, with gold curls laden, And her lips of cherry red. Yorkshire Lyrics Poems written in the Dialect as Spoken in the West Riding of Yorkshire. To which are added a Selection of Fugitive Verses not in the Dialect A grove by a fountain is in all nature worship the ready-made shrine of the sylphs who live in its limpid waves and chatter mysteriously in its shallows. The Myths of the New World A Treatise on the Symbolism and Mythology of the Red Race of America Altogether, Mrs. Vrain looked like a sylph or a dainty shepherdess of Dresden china, and should have been arrayed in gossamer robes, rather than in the deep mourning she affected. The Silent House Had she been a sylph the prospect would have been most untempting, but a two-hundred-and-fifty-pounder! Lippincott's Magazine, Vol. 22, August, 1878 It is all embroidered, fringed, carved in a Greek, Gothic, barbaric style, so fantastic, so light, so aerial, that it might be fancied to have been built expressly for the nest of a sylph. Seeing Europe with Famous Authors, Volume 7 Italy, Sicily, and Greece (Part One) He noticed this time that there was no sylph, and his breathing seemed to be no worse than usual. The Sky Is Falling Ingred, hidden behind a protecting barrier of schoolfellows, could see all the sylphs dancing and the fairy pipers piping as the crisp notes came tripping from his practised fingers. A Popular Schoolgirl I have never seen a sylph, Mrs. Sorrel, so I cannot make the comparison," he said; "but Lucy is a very beautiful girl, and I think she is looking her best this evening. The Treasure of Heaven A Romance of Riches Vera has the figure, not of a sylph, but of a goddess; it is the absolute perfection of the female form. Vera Nevill Or, Poor Wisdom's Chance She was dressed with a charming simplicity, which well became a sylph like form, that required no adventitious aid from art. The Three Brides, Love in a Cottage, and Other Tales The thing was probably another sylph, strong enough to move them in their present reduced size. The Sky Is Falling Thrice has some invisible being--some silver-tongued sylph--not mentioned, I apprehend, in the nomenclature of the Rosicrusian philosophy, whispered the word ... A Bibliographical, Antiquarian and Picturesque Tour in France and Germany, Volume Three Is it more ridiculous or more difficult to believe in fairies, in sylphs, in ghosts, in witches, in were-wolfs, than to believe in the magical or impossible action of the spirit upon the body? Superstition In All Ages (1732) Common Sense The next moment she was in Brandon's arms, flying like a sylph about the room. When Knighthood Was in Flower or, the Love Story of Charles Brandon and Mary Tudor the King's Sister, and Happening in the Reign of His August Majesty King Henry the Eighth It came to him that this Paris-gowned, long-limbed young sylph was more than willing to let him become intrigued by her charms. Tangled Trails A Western Detective Story The sylph changed direction, and began to bob about. The Sky Is Falling She entered, radiant, smiling, and in her costume of innocence she looked like a sylph. The Disentanglers Through the cloud of her dusky tresses, Like a star, shines out her face, And the form his strong arm presses Is sylph like in its grace. Poems of Passion Was it some sylph whose tender care Spangled thy robes so fine and fair, And wove them of the morning air? Hymns, Songs, and Fables, for Young People "Oh, my little sylph, for I know not what else to call you, is my face so poor a recommendation, that I cannot be considered a man because I carry a pack on my back?" The Home in the Valley At once, there was a feeling of growing, and the sylph began to shrink away from them. The Sky Is Falling A little weak—still!" said he, "but not so bad—you're no scraggy sylph, thank heaven! The Definite Object A Romance of New York Fleta was attired in small, white satin, Turkish trousers, blue muslin and silver embroidered frock, worked sandals, and her hair braided and plaited in long tails behind, and she looked like a little sylph. Japhet, in Search of a Father His eyes pierce to where stands the sylph he leaves with reluctance. The Memories of Fifty Years Containing Brief Biographical Notices of Distinguished Americans, and Anecdotes of Remarkable Men; Interspersed with Scenes and Incidents Occurring during a Long Life of Observation Chiefly Spent in the Southwest One, a benign but august looking personage; the other, a sylph–like, beautiful creature of eighteen, whom he introduced as his mother and younger sister. A Book for the Young The sylphs and naiads and dryads had already gone out of business. T. De Witt Talmage As I Knew Him Not a creature was stirring; and the nature of the present occupants, whether sylphs, gnomes, or genii, was a question not at all, as it yet appeared, in a train for solution. Traditions of Lancashire, Volume 1 With these simple and meagre materials, Pope has constructed an harmonious poem in which the sylphs, gnomes, and other sprites of the Rosicrucian philosophy find appropriate place and service. English Literature, Considered as an Interpreter of English History Designed as a Manual of Instruction This seems all the less doubtful because all the Mauresque Virgins are thick-set and heavy; they are not sylphs, like the fair Virgins of Gothic art. The Cathedral She had the figure of a sylph, and the purse of a nabob. Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 1, November 6, 1841, Let us "people this whole isle with sylphs!" Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 55, No. 341, March, 1844 Even if he were not under heavy obligations to her he could no more save himself at the expense of this brown sylph than he could have testified against his own mother. Mavericks The poet describes, with becoming delicacy, the toilet of the lady, at which she is attended by obsequious sylphs. English Literature, Considered as an Interpreter of English History Designed as a Manual of Instruction And forth she went, tripping it among the beds of flowers like a sylph, followed by Lafontaine, moody and miserable, yet unable to resist the spell. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 54, No. 333, July 1843 A capricious mind can never rule the sylphs, nor a fickle disposition the undines.' The Magician The birches and the alders, delicate as sylphs, swayed their slim figures in the breeze to which they surrendered the foliage that streamed around them like the locks of goddesses already half metamorphosed into trees. Abbe Mouret's Transgression Lighter of foot Than a sylph or a fairy, Sinuous, wary, I passed from the airy Lawns, where the flute Of the winds made tremulous music for man. Household Gods Surrounding sylphs protect the beauty; and one to whom the lock has been given in charge, flutters unfortunately too near, and is clipped in two by the scissors that cut the lock. English Literature, Considered as an Interpreter of English History Designed as a Manual of Instruction We may admit that the gnomes are a less happy invention than the sylphs, and that their introduction lets the poem down from its level of magic illusion. The Art of Letters But then Arthurine, with her seventeen summers and her lovely face, the most extravagant little doll in the whole city, and that is not saying a little, but the most elegant, charming—a perfect sylph! Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 56, No. 345, July, 1844 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. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 55, No. 342, April, 1844 No guardian sylph, in golden panoply, Lifts the broad shield, and points the glittering spear. Poems Fair as a sylph but icy-hearted as a woman of five social seasons! The Son of Clemenceau This white sylph was pure romance—pure joy. A Great Success If I should go to him and say; 'Plant, my agile sylph, these people are my friends. The Rules of the Game But no sylph came again; no form rivaled the zephyr before me. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 55, No. 342, April, 1844 Madame Taverneau, who is not a sylph, hung with all her weight to Alfred's arm, and what surprises me is that she did not pull it off. The Cross of Berny 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, Notes and Illustrations He looks like a sylph formed of the essence of flowers, or a soul descended from the moon. The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 13, No. 357, February 21, 1829 Hear thy soft humming, Like a sylph's drumming! Voices for the Speechless As I wandered through the crowd, a mask dressed as a sylph bent its head over my shoulder, and I heard the words, "Why are you not in a domino?" Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 55, No. 342, April, 1844 A whiff of air caught the dancer, and she flew like a sylph right into the tile-stove to the tin soldier, blazed up in flame, and was gone. Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern — Volume 2 The salamander gives relief to the water-sprite; the gnome heightens the charm of the sylph. Prefaces and Prologues to Famous Books with Introductions, Notes and Illustrations It seemed to me that an airy sylph, touched with a sense of my solitude, had come to visit me, and this idea melted me almost to tears. Library of the World's Best Mystery and Detective Stories Thou art changed! in thee I find Beauty of another kind; Those rich curls lie on thy brow In a darker cluster now; And the sylph hath given place To the matron's form of grace.— The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 17, No. 489, May 14, 1831 "Wait in this spot until I return," was all that I heard, before he and the sylph had waltzed away far down the hall. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 55, No. 342, April, 1844 She would trip into the room like a young girl, with her light gossamer dress floating around her as if she were some sylph in a ballet. Routledge's Manual of Etiquette A young queen approaches, brilliant with diamonds and flowers--this was always my sylph. The World's Greatest Books — Volume 09 — Lives and Letters Her eyes are yet with visions bright Of sylph and river, flower and fay, Now through a narrow corridor She goes her lonely way. Collected Poems 1901-1918 in Two Volumes Volume II. Descending the hill, he watched the sylph like forms as they floated on in the mazy dance, declaring the bees were in terrible commotion, and he should be stung to death. Withered Leaves from Memory's Garland The sportive sylphs that course the air, Unseen on wings that twilight weaves, Around the opening rose repair, And breathe sweet incense o'er its leaves. Poems Hence hands of snow in palms of russet lie; The form of Hercules affects the sylph's And breasts that case the lion's fear-proof heart, Find their lov'd lodge in arms where tremors dwell! The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 19, No. 545, May 5, 1832 During those last months of her abode on the earth, there remained to her only the life of a sylph. Summer on the Lakes, in 1843 Bess, the daughter of the "blind beggar of Bethnal Green," a lady by birth, a sylph for beauty, an angel for constancy and sweetness. Character Sketches of Romance, Fiction and the Drama, Vol. 1 A Revised American Edition of the Reader's Handbook Yet sweeter is the song of love, When EMMA'S voice enchants the grove, While listening sylphs repeat the tale, Sequester'd in the silent vale. Poems (1828) It may not be, for though these scenes are fair, As fabled Arcady—the sylph and fay, And all their gentle kindred, shun the air, Where car and steamer make their stormy way. Poems "You look like a sylph to-night, Anne," said he, as she danced about him. The Garies and Their Friends The monster to confront, at first, The spell of Four must be rehears'd; Salamander shall kindle, Writhe nymph of the wave, In air sylph shall dwindle, And Kobold shall slave. The German Classics of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, Volume 01 Masterpieces of German Literature Translated into English. It seemed as if I was riding in some fairy park, and I expected, every moment, to see sylphs and nymphs appear before me. A Woman's Journey Round the World His charming Countess in the meantime brought grist to the mill, by telling fortunes and casting nativities, or granting attendant sylphs to any ladies who would pay sufficiently for their services. Memoirs of Extraordinary Popular Delusions — Volume 3 Mrs Veneering, always charmed by this rattling sylph, cries. Our Mutual Friend He found her that evening in the garden, wandering about in the warm starlight like an indolent sylph, and swinging to and fro the largest fan he had ever beheld. Daisy Miller Not that Rosamond was in the least like a kitten: she was a sylph caught young and educated at Mrs. Lemon's. Middlemarch Madame Sand had no idea that she was feared as a sylph. George Sand, some aspects of her life and writings Hence it was the constant endeavour of the female spirits to captivate the admiration of men; and of the male gnomes, sylphs, salamanders, and undines, to be beloved by a woman. Memoirs of Extraordinary Popular Delusions — Volume 3 You talk like a Rosicrucian, who will love nothing but a sylph, who does not believe in the existence of a sylph, and who yet quarrels with the whole universe for not containing a sylph. Nightmare Abbey I was at that time particularly fond of the amusement, and my partial friends flattered me by saying that I measured the mazy figure like a sylph. Beaux and Belles of England Mrs. Mary Robinson, Written by Herself, With the lives of the Duchesses of Gordon and Devonshire The sylphs are created by combining the agility of Ariel with the lively impertinence of the inhabitants of Lilliput. The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope, Volume 2 You must consider, sweetheart, that he was the most moral of men, and that with him love meant a passion as free from sensual taint as the preferences of a sylph. London Pride Or When the World Was Younger The air was peopled with sylphs, the water with undines or naiads, the bowels of the earth with gnomes, and the fire with salamanders. Memoirs of Extraordinary Popular Delusions — Volume 3 The sylph took it in her delicate hand, and began to eat. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 01, No. 03, January, 1858 She seemed of another nature from his, a sort of sylph or salamander, yet, in simplest human fashion, she had come quite close to him. There & Back A splendid sylph let us call him—a "giant angel" he was not. The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope, Volume 2 Ah! you list to the nightingale's tender condoling, Responsive to sylphs, in the moon beamy air. Poems 1817 Besides the sylphs, gnomes, undines, and salamanders, he acknowledged various ranks and orders of demons. Memoirs of Extraordinary Popular Delusions — Volume 3 Confronted by his stalwart limbs and expansive shoulders, she was no longer a behemoth,—she felt almost like a sylph. Under the Skylights Was she salamander or sylph, naiad or undine, oread or dryad?—But then she had such a head, and they were all rather silly! There & Back Indeed, we are tempted at times to class him with his own sylphs in this respect, as well as in the elegance and swiftness of his genius. The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope, Volume 2 A sylph, as bright as ever sported Her figure thro' the fields of air, By an old swarthy Gnome was courted. The Complete Poems of Sir Thomas Moore Collected by Himself with Explanatory Notes But my guardian sylph, vainer of my beauty, perhaps, than myself, would not suffer me to destroy the flattering illusion you have so often displayed to your Irish friends. Memoirs of the Life of the Rt. Hon. Richard Brinsley Sheridan — Volume 02 The sylph in the trailing gown held volubly that it did not fait rien; the man with the open purse said he couldn't see that it figured much, but the small American held firm. Lifted Masks; stories Marina sped past light-footed as a sylph, skilfully balancing dishes and plates in her hands, and vanished into the dark night. The Precipice Was it a sylph, the spirit of the wilderness? Picturesque Quebec : a sequel to Quebec past and present She who could dance like a sylph and was light on her little feet as a thistle down. The City of Fire She had come like a sylph out of the air, and she had returned again whence she came. The Romance of Zion Chapel [3d ed.] And when she saw who was in command the sylph as volubly acquiesced that naturellement it must be tout a fait perfect. Lifted Masks; stories She was no sylph when I knew her, my dear Miss Aitken, but she had a most comfortable lap, and a cap with cherry ribbons, and the kindest heart in all the world. Olivia in India In place of the gods and goddesses of the great epics, however, the fairy-like sylphs help to guide the action of this poem. Halleck's New English Literature "Keep some of them for your Lily Bell, your precious pearl, your moonlight sylph." A Romance of the Republic His sister looked at him again, and hesitated—he gave a slight, vexed gesture of impatience, whereupon she hurried away, with flying footsteps as light as those of a fabled sylph of the woodlands. Temporal Power Berenice’s locks first rose so bright,The heavens bespangling with dishevelled light.The sylphs behold it kindling as it flies,And pleased pursue its progress through the skies. Playful Poems It wanted, however, as yet, the principle of its vitality, in wanting the machinery of sylphs and gnomes, with which addition it was first published in 1714. Biographical Essays I'll wait—the sylphs 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 Journeys to the Homes of Eminent Artists My Lily Bell, my precious pearl, my sylph! A Romance of the Republic We did not know but that the sylph you escorted away had made a supper of Hemstead, with you as a relish. From Jest to Earnest And she danced across the road before he could answer her, like a tripping sylph in a painter's dreamland. Philistia I see Alice A—— flitting about in her white dress and fern-leaf wreath, dancing like the slender sylph she really was, but never can I forget the odd effect of the gentlemen's feet! Station Amusements in New Zealand Lovers sit on the grassy banks, children roll among the leaves, sylphs dance in every open, and out from between the branches lightly steps Orpheus, harp in hand, to greet the morn. Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great - Volume 06 Little Journeys to the Homes of Eminent Artists "O, quite out of the world—I know not where, but I am surrounded with sylphs, and I forget everything besides." The Diary and Letters of Madame D'Arblay — Volume 1 "Certainly," chimed in De Forrest; "that sylph so filled his eye that she became his ideal, as you told us, Miss Lottie." From Jest to Earnest Even to the last, one wretched sylph struggling to save the lock clung to it. English Literature for Boys and Girls Méphistophélès summons gnomes and sylphs to fill his mind with lovely fancies. A Book of Operas Their Histories, Their Plots, and Their Music Let us seek to trace out the daily diet of a sylph, or a sylph disposed to materialize itself. The Physiology of Taste Laughing still and allowing her hand to remain in his, she passed out of the pavilion, and Theos followed them both as a man might follow the beckoning sylphs in a fairy dream. Ardath The beaming countenance of the beautiful sylph darkened in a moment, like a cosmoramic landscape. The Wedding Guest He tells how her guardian sylph brings a morning dream to warn her of coming danger. English Literature for Boys and Girls She stepped forward like an airy sylph, between David and his persecutor, and said, with a charming smile, "I will explain, sir." Love Me Little, Love Me Long But they went off easily, and were soon dancing with the young girls—sylphs as airy and agile as she had once been. Sisters I was forgetting where and who I was, to live the life of elves and sylphs, the fanciful creation of Scandinavian superstitions. A Journey to the Interior of the Earth She was petite, delicate, and ethereal, like a sylph, and yet her form was well developed and beautiful; if she had been somewhat taller, she might have been compared with Juno. Louisa of Prussia and Her Times It was in vain, "Fate urged the shears, and cut the sylph in twain." English Literature for Boys and Girls You compare her with your Englishwomen who wolf down from three to five meat meals a day; and naturally you find her a sylph. John Bull's Other Island Hence hands of snow in palms of russet lie; The form of Hercules affects the sylph’s; And breasts, that case the lion’s fear-proof heart, Find their meet lodge in arms where tremors dwell! The Hunchback She has the figure and motions of a sylph, the face of an angel, the eye of love itself. A Laodicean : a Story of To-day The monster to confront, at first, The spell of Four must be rehears'd; Salamander shall kindle, Writhe nymph of the wave, In air sylph shall dwindle, And Kobold shall slave. Faust — Part 1 After them came a snowy flock of fair young girls, angels all but the wings, slender as sylphs, and robed in purest white. The Midnight Queen Meg is always moaning and groaning because she isn't a sylph! Stories of a Western Town To fifty chosen sylphs of special note, We trust the important charge, the petticoat. Moby Dick, or, the whale Hence the Rosicrucian's lovely phantoms of sylph and gnome. Zanoni Nymphs and naiads, sweetly smiling, Urge her bark with pearly hand, Merrily the sylph beguiling From the nooks of fairy-land. Poems To fifty chosen sylphs of special note, We trust the important charge, the petticoat. Moby Dick: or, the White Whale Every one looked at her; but that was, perhaps, because she was such a sylph of a woman. A Mountain Woman We always think of fat people as heavy, but he could have danced against a sylph. The Man Who Was Thursday, a nightmare These barbarians, using other words for them, had letter-notion of gnome, sylph, undine and salamander. 1492 And he wondered little at her power, for rarely had the world seen such union of princess and sylph as in that lady's figure. The Egoist Through his throng of operatic nixies and sylphs of the ballet the cold Muse sometimes passes, strange, but not unfriendly. Essays in Little Ariel glided under my roof in the form of a sylph who foresaw every want of mine. The Magic Skin Slim sylph, she has set forth, through the black muddy country: she has much to tell, her poor nerves so flurried; and travels, as indeed to-day on this road all persons do, with extreme slowness. The French Revolution I began to think of genii, sylphs, gnomes, in short, of all the ministers of the occult sciences, until I laughed aloud at the freaks of my own imagination. 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