The sylph enters during the midst of the revelry and attempts to distract James.
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If you are sylph-like still you doubtless look marvelous dressed in a flour sack.
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Suki had a sylph-like figure and was as comfortable without clothes as in them.
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A sylph, or forest fairy, gazes lovingly upon him and dances about his chair.
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She made her debut at age sixteen with the Paris Opera as the sylph in La Sylphide.
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James rouses his friend Gurn from sleep, and questions him about the sylph.
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As he stares out the window, the sylph materializes before him and confesses her love.
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It tells the story of a young Scotsman who dumps his human fiance for a forest sylph.
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James enters with the sylph who shows him her charming, woodland realm.
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A slender graceful young woman
An elemental being believed to inhabit the air
Sylph (also called sylphid) is a mythological creature in the Western tradition. The term originates in Paracelsus, who describes sylphs as invisible beings of the air, his elementals of air. There is no known substantial mythos associated with them.
The Elementals are a fictional team of superheroes published by DC Comics. They first appeared in Super Friends #14 (October 1978), and were created by E. Nelson Bridwell and Ramona Fradon.
In the Dungeons & Dragons fantasy role-playing game, a sylph is an outsider that shares many similarities to fey creatures.
Sylph (u30B7u30EBu30D5, Shirufu?) is a Japanese shu014Djo manga magazine published by ASCII Media Works (formerly MediaWorks) and is sold monthly. The magazine was originally published on December 9, 2006 as a special edition version of MediaWorks' now-defunct Dengeki Comic Gao! under the title Comic Sylph (u30B3u30DFu30C3u30AFu30B7u30EBu30D5, Komikku Shirufu?, normally written as comic SYLPH) as a quarterly publication...
A wood nymph; The elemental being of air, usually female; A slender woman or girl, usually graceful and sometimes with the implication of sublime station over everyday people
An "entity" or "elemental" that dwells in the plane of Air or is associated with the AIR Element.
Monthly comic magazine in which Dear Girl ~Stories~ Hibiki is printed.