“Natalia Magnicaballi has the regal bearing of a queen, the spirit of a gypsy, and the soul of a sylph.”

“She was illuminated now, a little sylph of a woman, perhaps in her mid-thirties, with deep-set eyes and a long Roman nose.”

“I felt my heart leap in my chest as my eyes sought out a dripping wet sylph sitting in a corner.”

“A nymph must rise from the stream, a sylphid from the rose, before I could allow another to steal you from my side.”

“The ideal body image imprinted on my brain during adolescence belonged to the crew of sylphs that called Kate Moss their chief.”

“Flowerbeds where bees vie with hummingbirds for honey offer unmatched opportunity to observe sylphs.”

“In the Otonga area, during this study, the violet tailed sylphs and speckled hummingbirds were observed as those with the largest diet range.”