sylphlike
Example Sentences
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Stars and flowers of crystal were strewed around, and the grotto looked like a fit abode for sylphids or fairies.
From Holidays at the Grange or A Week's Delight Games and Stories for Parlor and Fireside by Higgins, Emily Mayer
The ghosts of Ossian skim the misty vale, And hosts of sylphids on the moonbeams sail.
From The Poetical Works of Henry Kirk White : With a Memoir by Sir Harris Nicolas by White, Henry Kirk
“You fancy you were once a sylphid,” said he; “but there are no sylphids, my sweet one, and there is no Summer-land.”
From Fairy Book by May, Sophie
