A sylph (also called sylphid) is an air spirit stemming from the 16th-century works of Paracelsus, who describes sylphs as (invisible) beings of the air...
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The Sylph is a 1778 novel by Georgiana Cavendish, Duchess of Devonshire. It was her second printed work and was published anonymously under the name 'A...
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Look up sylph or sylphe in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. A sylph is a mythological creature in western tradition. Sylph may also refer to: The hummingbird...
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Several ships have been named Sylph, for the Sylph, a mythological creature in western tradition. Sylph (1791 ship) was launched at Whitby. She made one...
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The Venezuelan sylph (Aglaiocercus berlepschi) is an Endangered species of hummingbird in the "coquettes", tribe Lesbiini of subfamily Lesbiinae. It is...
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USS Sylph may refer to the following ships of the United States Navy: USS Sylph (1813) was launched on 18 August 1813 and sold in 1824 USS Sylph (1831)...
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USS Sylph (PY-12), briefly YP-71, was a yacht in commission in the United States Navy as a patrol yacht from 1940 to 1946. Intrepid (YP-71), a yacht built...
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The violet-tailed sylph (Aglaiocercus coelestis) is a species of hummingbird in the "coquettes", tribe Lesbiini of subfamily Lesbiinae. It is found in...
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The long-tailed sylph (Aglaiocercus kingii) is a species of hummingbird in the "coquettes", tribe Lesbiini of subfamily Lesbiinae. It is found in Bolivia...
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Sylph was a schooner in the United States Navy during the War of 1812. Built to strengthen Commodore Isaac Chauncey's squadron on Lake Ontario, Sylph...
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Six vessels of the Royal Navy have been named HMS Sylph after the air spirits known as sylphs: HMS Sylph (1776) was a 14-gun sloop purchased by the Royal...
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The Mountain Sylph is an opera in two acts by John Barnett to a libretto by Thomas James Thackeray, after Trilby, ou le lutin d'Argail by Charles Nodier...
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Sylphes is the second album by gothic rock band Corpus Delicti. v t e...
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Sylph (シルフ, Shirufu) is a defunct Japanese shōjo manga magazine published by ASCII Media Works (formerly MediaWorks) and was sold monthly. The magazine...
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The H[onourable] C[ompany's] S[hip] Sylph was a schooner launched in 1806 at the Bombay Dockyard for the Bombay Marine, the naval arm of the British East...
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Sylph was a brand of bicycle designed by Charles Duryea in the late 1800s. They were initially manufactured by Ames Manufacturing Company, in Chicopee...
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La Sylphide (category Sylphs)
La Sylphide (English: The Sylph; Danish: Sylfiden) is a romantic ballet in two acts. There were two versions of the ballet; the original choreographed...
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ASCII Media Works (redirect from Sylph Comics)
Comics was originally serialized in the manga magazine Dengeki Daioh. Sylph Comics Sylph Comics (シルフコミックス, Shirufu Komikkusu) is a manga publishing imprint...
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USS Sylph was a schooner launched in 1831 at Baltimore as the mercantile Sarah Ann. The Navy purchased her in April 1831 and renamed her Sylph on 26 April...
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The Sylph was a 19th-century pilot boat first built in 1834, by Whitmore & Holbrook for John Perkins Cushing as a Boston yacht and pilot-boat for merchant...
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magics, the sprite is often believed to be the elemental of air (see also sylph). A water sprite (also called a water fairy or water faery) is a general...
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Legendary horses in the Jura (category Sylphs)
Chisséria is from the Canton of Arinthod, where there are many legends about sylphs. This horse is known as Pegasus of Segomo as well. It appeared in the air...
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Whiskey Ring (section "Sylph")
restaurant, Babcock was introduced to Louise Hawkins, the "Sylph". Babcock would later use "Sylph", as a code signature for Babcock, in letter correspondence...
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The Rape of the Lock (category Sylphs)
system of "sylphs", or guardian spirits of virgins, a parodised version of the gods and goddesses of conventional epic. Pope derived his sylphs from the...
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Sylph was launched at Whitby in 1791. She made one voyage for the British East India Company (EIC) to New South Wales and China. However, a French privateer...
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(PG-24) 1897 1897 The Dolphin, Sylph and Mayflower shared duty as the presidential yacht from 1897 to 1929. USS Sylph (PY-5) 1902 1921 USS Mayflower (PY-1)...
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followers, there are four categories of elementals, which are gnomes, undines, sylphs, and salamanders. These correspond to the four Empedoclean elements of antiquity:...
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HMS Sylph was a 16-gun Albatross-class brig-sloop of the Royal Navy designed by William Rule and launched in 1795 at Deptford Dockyard. Her namesake was...
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26, 2004 and November 26, 2006. Comic Sylph Comic Sylph (コミックシルフ, Komikku Shirufu, normally written as comic SYLPH) was a quarterly shōjo manga magazine...
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Dragonchess (section Sylph (S))
to the square directly above on level 3, or to one of the player's six Sylph starting squares. On level 3: can move and capture like a zebra, i.e. it...
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