Lexicographical Neighbors of Sylphy
Literary usage of Sylphy
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Monthly Review by Ralph Griffiths (1823)
"1 " Just at that moment did a moon-beam shed .1 Upon her sylphy'd form its lustre
clear. • i. Her snow-white dress so softly round her gleams, ..."
2. The Annals of Newberry: In Two Parts by John Belton O'Neall, John Abney Chapman (1892)
""As often hast thou kissed the flower Of Dogwood washed by morning shower: Hut
shouldst thou wed my sylphy form, Thou couldst not shelter from the storm, ..."
3. Southland Writers: Biographical and Critical Sketches of the Living Female by Ida Raymond, Mary T. Tardy (1870)
"... as our maid sylphy calls those foreign dainties! " Mr. Gregory (declaiming
loftily, from association of ideas as he helps himself to olives), ..."
4. The Monthly Review by Ralph Griffiths (1823)
"1 " Just at that moment did a moon-beam shed .1 Upon her sylphy'd form its lustre
clear. • i. Her snow-white dress so softly round her gleams, ..."
5. The Annals of Newberry: In Two Parts by John Belton O'Neall, John Abney Chapman (1892)
""As often hast thou kissed the flower Of Dogwood washed by morning shower: Hut
shouldst thou wed my sylphy form, Thou couldst not shelter from the storm, ..."
6. Southland Writers: Biographical and Critical Sketches of the Living Female by Ida Raymond, Mary T. Tardy (1870)
"... as our maid sylphy calls those foreign dainties! " Mr. Gregory (declaiming
loftily, from association of ideas as he helps himself to olives), ..."
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