Sylph

(noun.) an elemental being believed to inhabit the air.

(noun.) a slender graceful young woman.

整理:帕斯夸里

• Mrs Veneering, always charmed by this rattling sylph, cries. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 我们共同的朋友.
• She was a Fairy, a Sylph, I don't know what she was--anything that no one ever saw, and everything that everybody ever wanted. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 大卫·科波菲尔.
• Not that Rosamond was in the least like a kitten: she was a sylph caught young and educated at Mrs. Lemon's. 乔治·艾略特. 米德尔马契.

录入:门罗