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Susan was close, at the time, to the photographer Annie Leibovitz, who, when I was briefly famous because of Picture Show, showed up like the woodsprite she then resembled and photographed me in an alley beside the bookshop, probably for Rolling Stone.
Literary Life: A Second Memoir Larry McMurtry 2009
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Susan was close, at the time, to the photographer Annie Leibovitz, who, when I was briefly famous because of Picture Show, showed up like the woodsprite she then resembled and photographed me in an alley beside the bookshop, probably for Rolling Stone.
Literary Life: A Second Memoir Larry McMurtry 2009
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Jeremy heard Candy's breath catch, but in the dimness he caught the narrowed glimpse of her tip-tilted green eyes, and the sudden tightening of that woodsprite mouth.
Ishmael Barbara Hambly 2000
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Jeremy heard Candy's breath catch, but in the dimness he caught the narrowed glimpse of her tip-tilted green eyes, and the sudden tightening of that woodsprite mouth.
Ishmael Barbara Hambly 2000
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I'm hardly about to pine away for lack of clan like a forlorn woodsprite.
The Chaos Gate Lackey, Mercedes 1994
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According to the Hollywood Reporter, the woodsprite actor will star in a remake of this Swedish thing:
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Jane wasn't flitting across the moors like a woodsprite, she was rolling around in the hay or punching a guy in the mouth.
Perfume Posse 2008
chained_bear commented on the word woodsprite
Not technically a word, though OED lists "wood-spirit" as one. I love that sprite comes from spirit. What a cool word is sprite.
It also, for some reason, makes me think of a refreshing, citrusy lemon-lime flavor...
February 13, 2007
mollusque commented on the word woodsprite
Why not technically a word, c_b?
October 18, 2008
chained_bear commented on the word woodsprite
F&$%ed if I know, mollusque; that was more than a year ago. Probably I thought it didn't exist because the OED didn't list it. And we all know *that's* a crock.
October 19, 2008