How To Use Sylph In A Sentence
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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.
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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
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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 .
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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.
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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
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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.
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Will she call on salamanders and sylphs as well, I wonder?
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And sometimes those of us who are remarkably sylphlike wonder how anyone can get so fat.
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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
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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.
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The samples were analyzed for tricresylphosphate (TCP) an organo-phosphate that is contained in modern jet oil as an antiwear additive.
HEADLINES
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Was she salamander or sylph, naiad or undine, oread or dryad?
There & Back
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You fancy you were once a sylphid," said he; "but there are no sylphids, my sweet one, and there is no Summer-land.
Fairy Book
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Putting on a gypsy skirt now might just feel like getting yourself up as a ridiculous imitation of yourself as a beautiful sylph wafting around pretending to be Talitha Getty in Morocco, circa 1969.
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And why would an Azure dragon change into a sylph, anyway?
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‘She is a sylph; a water-sprite,’ said Anest, who knew from experience to be direct and honest in his dealing with elves.
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His mission became tangible in 1999 with his sylphlike costar, Jean Butler, who co-produced and choreographed the evening-length production of an Irish epic retold in Dancing on Dangerous Ground.
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Roles such as the Golden Slave in Scheherazade, the Poet in Les Sylphides, the tragic puppet in Petrouchka, and the airborne androgyne in Le Spectre de la rose were forever marked by the imprint of his personality.
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Grisi, gimp-waisted sylphid, here skips for posterity.
Yet Again
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But sylpheed-claws looks like sylpheed, so sylpheed-claws is ugly too.
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It's clear enough that women are not sylphs in Garcia's eyes.
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June was the result of a human and a sylph's love; her parents, like so many other human-nonhuman couples, had been killed for their love bond.
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Your fairy, the one you call Whisper, has taken care of it for your sake," said the sister sylphid.
Fairy Book
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The elements were inhabited by spirits - the air by sylphs, the water by nymphs or undines, the earth by gnomes, the fire by salamanders - and by many other spiritual or supernatural beings, such as syrens, nenuphar, lorins, etc.
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[242] The sect of the Cabalists, indeed, believed in the existence of spirits of nature, embodiments or representatives of the four elements, which they called respectively gnomes, sylphs, salamanders, and ondines.
The Science of Fairy Tales An Inquiry into Fairy Mythology
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If I am a sylphid, perhaps my home is over the hills, and far away.
Fairy Book
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She has the regal bearing of a queen and the soul of a sylph.
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The idea of the dragon / sylph gets explained more in the Rilleta chapter coming up.
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They are but one of the many hidden groups that still cling to the ancient ways of pure magic; that is, they are among one of many groups (which include elves, sylphs, sprites, fairies, etc.) that took part in inventing magic.
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She was a sylphlike blonde, cold and lovely with a humorous closed-lipped smile that reminded him of Jeri's.
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With a rich heritage of performance and background, Miss Franca is now able to stage in the repertoire of the National Ballet the great classics like "Swan Lake", "The Nutcracker" and "Les Sylphides".
Canada's Artistic Boom
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‘I will do as you say,’ said the sylph, and then spread her wings and swooped off across the little dale.
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These spirits are supposed to be of four distinct kinds, as the elements from which they have their origin, and are known, to those who have studied the cabalistical philosophy, by the names of Sylphs, Gnomes, Salamanders, and
The Monastery
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Roundspringy butt usually highlights your sylphlike figure.
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The exquisite feminine beauty of her countenance, now shaded only by a profusion of sunny tresses; the sylph-like form, disencumbered of her heavy riding-skirt and mantled in azure silk; the grace of her manner and of her smile, cleared, with a celerity which surprised the Master himself, all the gloomy and unfavourable thoughts which had for some time overclouded his fancy.
The Bride of Lammermoor
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It displays the essence of Chopin's music that surely Fokine desired and rescues it from the sickly sentiment and yards of tulle that Les Sylphides usually heralds.
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To his other side and practically leaning up against him was another masked teammate, the pixyish Silver Sylph, whose secret identity allowed her to fade into obscurity soon after The Terror Syndicate called it quits.
Masked
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As a principal with Ballet Arizona, she arches her sinuous back and undulates her arms with poetic delicacy in Bournonville's La Sylphide, and struts with sexy sultriness in Balanchine's Slaughter on Tenth Avenue.
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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
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The exquisite feminine beauty of her countenance, now shaded only by a profusion of sunny tresses; the sylph-like form, disencumbered of her heavy riding-skirt and mantled in azure silk; the grace of her manner and of her smile, cleared, with a celerity which surprised the Master himself, all the gloomy and unfavourable thoughts which had for some time overclouded his fancy.
The Bride of Lammermoor
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We're in the realm of the satin pointe shoe and the sylphlike ballerina, but any resemblance to floaty romanticism ends there.
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In the Otonga area, during this study, the violet tailed sylphs and speckled hummingbirds were observed as those with the largest diet range.
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They said at the time it was a crib, and La Sylphide is indeed markedly different from any other Bournonville ballet.
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Later this week is Homage To Fokine (Fri to 1 Aug) and a triple bill of Chopiniana (Les Sylphides), Scheherezade and Firebird, with Vishneva in the title role.
This week's new dance
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The next morning Rastignac woke late and stayed in bed, giving himself up to one of those matutinal reveries in the course of which a young man glides like a sylph under many a silken, or cashmere, or cotton drapery.
Study of a Woman
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Appearance Sylphs resemble tall, lithe humans - with one exception.
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Then, intwining arms with a bright sylphid, she flew with her over the gardens in a trance of delight.
Fairy Book
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Flowerbeds where bees vie with hummingbirds for honey offer unmatched opportunity to observe sylphs.
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Little surprise that was; sylphs led longer lives than humans, and usually kept their physical appearance throughout their lives.
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I'll never be slim and sylphlike - but if there were a diet marketed that announced ‘lose weight and stop people walking into you’ then I'd be first on the sign-up list.
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Round and springy butt usually highlights your sylphlike figure.
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Allie, a slim sylph, had the Ruby Keeler-Peggy Sawyer part.
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Two security guards were trying to restrain her - one tall guy and one wee blonde sylph one-eighth the size of the offender.
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A phantom of air, an abstraction of the dawn and of vesper sun-lights, a bodiless sylph on the one hand; on the other a gross carnal monster, like the Miltonic Asmodai, "the fleshliest incubus" among the fiends, and yet so far ennobled into interest by his intellectual power, and by the grandeur of misanthropy!
Biographical Essays
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This new feat ushered in a new dance vocabulary of hovering balances and quick, light bourrées, as well as a new image of the ballerina as gravity-defying sylph.
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The Long-tailed Sylph occurs in highlands of northwestern South America from Venezuela to Bolivia.
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Growing up chubby with three sylphlike younger sisters, I was always in search of a quick fix to my weight problem.
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You shall sojourn at Paris, Rome, and Naples: at Florence, Venice, and Vienna: all the ground I have wandered over shall be re-trodden by you: wherever I stamped my hoof, your sylph's foot shall step also.
Jane Eyre: an autobiography, Vol. II.
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I felt my heart leap in my chest as my eyes sought out a dripping wet sylph sitting in a corner.
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Her most illustrious parts were the title roles of Giselle, La Sylphide, and Esmeralda.
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'You're not exactly sylphlike, are you?' she said to her fat friend.
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I want to say that was a sylph… but surely they all died or fled long ago, didn't they?
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The palace of the Sylphides was a tavern, and Clarice, the neglected fiancee of besotted Eraste, made an appearance as a laundress, boxed her sylph-sotted betrothed about the ears, then pulled him off stage to the applause of the audience.
Archive 2009-03-01
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La Sylphide also popularized the white tutus, freeing the ballerinas from the bondage of stiffening panniers.
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The 234-page tract is laced with watercolors of plants, astronomical drawings and naked sylphs, but it is the language that truly confounds scholars.
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Wearing droopy tulle skirts and white corsets over T-shirts, she and her cast might be a group of actual sylphs or swans, forest spirits who are seen only out of the corner of your eye.
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Stein brought along her poodle, Basket, who posed alongside Stein and one of Balmain's sylphid models.
News
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During the Romantic period, most ballets told stories taken from ancient myths or dramas, with supernatural female creatures, such as sylphs, shades, and water nymphs, enjoying great popularity.
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A robe of white, confined loosely to her waist by a vari-colored sash, which drooped gracefully to catch up the folds in front, clung softly to her figure in sylphid revelation of the matchless proportions it could never conceal.
The Flaw in the Sapphire
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My only request to drystone wallers is, when rebuilding, please leave a little more gap in the squeezer stiles, the sheep can't be so thin hereabouts, and walkers less sylph-like than my navigator might get their thighs wedged.
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The emphasis in ballet was still on fairies, sylphs, and glorious processions.
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Une jeune femme, dont la délicate et elégante tournure, la peau blanche et diaphane, les cheveux blonds, les mouvemens onduleux, toute une tournure impossible à décrire autrement qu'en disant qu'elle était de toutes les créatures la plus gracieuse, lui donnaient l'aspect d'une de ces apparitions amenées par un rêve heureux ... il y avail de la Sylphide en elle.
The Works of Lord Byron: Letters and Journals. Vol. 1
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'You're not exactly sylphlike, are you?' she said to her fat friend.
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Although in Act II, the Sylphs either sparkled like diamonds in their sunny glade or incandesced in the funerary moonlight, in Act I, the Sylph shined like the Evening Star - only in twilight.
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The beaming countenance of the beautiful sylph darkened in a moment, like a cosmoramic landscape.
The Wedding Guest
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Over the years she has put on about 130 pounds but still dresses as if she were a sylph.
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On the streets of Tokyo, slim-hipped sylphs favour stiletto-heeled Prada sandals, demure Agnes B pencil skirts, a Hermes jacket and a Louis Vuitton handbag.
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Under a colorless sky stained with clouds, ten sylphs dance in a ring.
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Brown, have been somewhat too resolutely robbed of the formal avenues, clipped hedges, and other topiarian adjuncts which comport so well with the starch prudery of things Elizabethan; but they are still replete with grotto, fountain, labyrinth, and alcove -- a very paradise for the more court-bred rank of sylphs, and the gentler elves of Queen Titania.
The Complete Prose Works of Martin Farquhar Tupper
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The elements were inhabited by spirits - the air by sylphs, the water by nymphs or undines, the earth by gnomes, the fire by salamanders.
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The ideal body image imprinted on my brain during adolescence belonged to the crew of sylphs that called Kate Moss their chief.
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Why, Dr. Slop's abdominal sesquipedality was sylph-like grace to the Lambertian girth she displays.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 17, No. 100, February, 1866
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Belloc said to the girl, ‘Why do you fear the sylph, Lily.’
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A striking increase in cell invasiveness was observed once the cells were treated with the bioactive lipid sphingosylphosphorylcholine (SPC) that leads to a reorganization of the cell's keratin network, an enhancement of the cell's deformability, and also an increase in the cell's migration speed on flat surfaces.
Elites TV
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Under a colorless sky stained with clouds, ten sylphs dance in a ring.