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  • That is, until she finds herself kidnapped for use as a human sacrifice in the luring and binding of a Battler, the most dangerous kind of Sylph there is.

    Review: The Battle Sylph by L. J. McDonald Donna 2010

  • August 29 the American put out again, having an additional newly built schooner, named the "Sylph," large and fast, carrying three or four long 32-pounders.

    Sea Power in its Relations to the War of 1812 Volume 2 1877

  • For this past week I have read Mark of the Demon & Blood of the Demon by Diana Rowland, The Battle Sylph by LJ McDonald (trying very hard to find the shattered sylph) and Lion's Heat by Lora Leigh.

    Friday Book Club Nalini Singh 2010

  • Still continuing with Shattered Sylph and just starting Three Days to Dead.

    Friday Book Club Nalini Singh 2010

  • The Battle Sylph by L.J. McDonald, which was just amazing.

    Friday Book Club Nalini Singh 2010

  • In 1778, Lady Julia Stanley -- the protagonist of Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire's novel "The Sylph" -- muses that her husband has had a mistress since their wedding day and asks plaintively, "What law excludes a woman from doing the same?"

    If He Has A Mistress, Why Can't She Have...A Mister? 2011

  • To his other side and practically leaning up against him was another masked teammate, the pixyish Silver Sylph, whose secret identity allowed her to fade into obscurity soon after The Terror Syndicate called it quits.

    Masked Lou Anders 2010

  • * One of the most damning pieces of evidence in the case against him in the Whiskey Fraud proceedings was a telegraph signed “Sylph.”

    CHASING the WHITE DOG MAX WATMAN 2010

  • It has been suggested, convincingly, that Sylph was simply a pseudonym, probably for Joyce.

    CHASING the WHITE DOG MAX WATMAN 2010

  • To his other side and practically leaning up against him was another masked teammate, the pixyish Silver Sylph, whose secret identity allowed her to fade into obscurity soon after The Terror Syndicate called it quits.

    Masked Lou Anders 2010

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