sylph

How To Use sylph In A Sentence

• As I gaze at this slender sylph in front of me, the absurdity of her paranoia gets me thinking that women so often suffer from a distorted view of themselves.
• I love the twinkle in your eye; and I am so glad it is you, and no one else, who is my papa; but just the same, and forevermore, I shall keep saying, _I was a sylphid_! Fairy Book
• You compare her with your English-women who wolf down from three to five meat meals a day; and naturally you find Sally a sylph .
• If the encounters between scholars and sylphs, poets and naiads record the possibility of connection between two sentient beings, Badri also records the possibility of connection between the individual and the universe.
• The feathers of these gay little sylphs, most of them from the Southern States, are most brilliant, and are represented with what, were it [not] connected with so much spirit in the attitude, I would call a laborious degree of execution. The Journal of Sir Walter Scott From the Original Manuscript at Abbotsford
• She transforms herself from an awkward girl with ‘kinky hair and bad skin’ into a ravishing, couture-clad sylph, winning adulation for her public appearances around the world.
• Will she call on salamanders and sylphs as well, I wonder?
• And sometimes those of us who are remarkably sylphlike wonder how anyone can get so fat.
• A nymph must rise from the stream, a sylphid from the rose, before I could allow another to steal you from my side. Lucretia — Complete
• The plots of many ballets were dominated by spirit women - sylphs, wilis, and ghosts - who enslaved the hearts and senses of mortal men and made it impossible for them to live happily in the real world.