Gnomes, sylphs and nereids are introduced on almost every page, and personification is carried to an extraordinary excess. [Please select]
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Ingred, hidden behind a protecting barrier of schoolfellows, could see all the sylphs dancing and the fairy pipers piping as the crisp notes came tripping from his practised fingers. [Please select]
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From these are compounded the four elements, each of which is ruled by elemental spirits--earth by gnomes or pygmies, water by undines or nymphs, air by sylphs, fire by salamanders (cf.) [Please select]
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I advanced from my stone, dodging and slipping behind her, unobserved even by Snap, so intent were these two friends upon this entertainment, got up, one would think, for whatsoever sylphs or gnomes or water sprites might be looking on. [Please select]
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I was hearing that strain which in my childhood I had so often tried to imagine, and it was conjuring up the morning sylphs of the mountain air and all the 'flower-sprites' and 'sunshine elves' of Snowdon. [Please select]
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