What is "sylphs"

Usage examples of "sylphs".

In the evening after we had come to an anchor the deck was illuminated with lanterns, and this picturesque band of sylphs, tricked out with flowers, and dressed in robes of variegated tappa, got up a ball in great style.

Wildfolk, sylphs and sprites, gnomes and salamanders, gathering on the stage, forming above the incense braziers, flocking around him and flitting this way and that, grinning and pointing at the crowd.

The Wildfolk swarmed round them both, gnomes and sprites and like crystals in the air, the sylphs, but she could strip the dweomer away, she realized, and see the man himself.

Wildfolk gathered to listen, sylphs and gnomes, while in the stream undines rose up and clustered at the grassy bank.

Two sylphs entered the chamber and carried Ettis away on a silver tray.

Under the rising moon it was an inhospitable and airy place that seemed to speak of sylphs and elementals, a place where lichen struggled to grab a gray foothold.

Gnomes and sylphs were clutching and shoving the thing, until at last it leapt up and fell free onto the floor.

In a few moments the sylphs dived back into the lake and disappeared, melding again with the water.