sylphide

I want the real sylphide to return and sing to us as we lie back on our divans!

Rat Catcher Young Geoffrion 2009

“A sylphide!” repeated Gedeonovsky, raising his eyes towards heaven.

A House of Gentlefolk 2003

Indeed, a celebrated sylphide -- unsurpassed for the graceful airiness of her evolutions -- has been known to make the sunflower in the last scene bend with the additional weight of a roast pig, an apple pie, and sixteen _omelettes soufflées_ -- drink, including porter, in proportion.

Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 1, October 23, 1841 Various

To resume the walk around the town: Caper, after leaving the man who was employing the sylphide hod-carriers, called in at the shop were cigars were sold, and outside of which was a tin sign, on which was painted the papal coat-of-arms, and the usual words, indicating that the government monopolies, salt and tobacco, were for sale.

The Continental Monthly, Vol. 3, No. 1 January 1863 Devoted To Literature And National Policy Various

So off we went together, he promising Mrs. Sparrow to return in time for dinner, and informing her that she was a sylphide, which caused her to say, "Go along!" in high delight.

Rosin the Beau Laura Elizabeth Howe Richards 1896

"A sylphide!" repeated Gedeonovsky, raising his eyes towards heaven.

A House of Gentlefolk Ivan Sergeevich Turgenev 1850

"Elle est la," he said, laying his jewelled hand on his richly-embroidered velvet glass buttons, "Je t'ai vue, je te benis, O ma sylphide, O mon ange!" and he dived into the thicket, and made his way back to his furnaces and saucepans.

The History of Pendennis William Makepeace Thackeray 1837

Experts have warned that the algae poses a health risk as when it rots it produces hydrogen sylphide, which if trapped under a seaweed crust and suddenly released can prove as deadly as cyanide.

Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph 2011

He found his ethereal sylphide shrouded in a brown cashmere dressing-gown ingeniously befrilled, lying languidly stretched out upon a sofa in a dimly lighted boudoir.

The Duchesse De Langeais Honor�� de Balzac 1824

The nun, wasted by yearning love, worn out with tears and fasting, prayer and vigils; the woman of nine-and-twenty, who had passed through heavy trials, was loved more passionately than the lighthearted girl, the woman of four-and-twenty, the sylphide, had ever been.

The Duchesse De Langeais Honor�� de Balzac 1824