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Examples
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Here now was the perfect backbone: not a snake but a lizard which no longer needed legs but kept that sprite-like face, benign smile, jet eyes.
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Nina Freudenberger is a natural, makeup-free, leggy Teutonic blonde with sprite-like energy.
The Daily Truffle: Bavarian Born Beauty Nina Freudenberger's Haus Interior Party in New York 2010
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Nina Freudenberger is a natural, makeup-free, leggy Teutonic blonde with sprite-like energy.
The Daily Truffle: Bavarian Born Beauty Nina Freudenberger's Haus Interior Party in New York 2010
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Although I did not know this sprite-like sweetie pie by name until two weeks ago, I could not resist what's been happening around her.
Dr. Cara Barker: What Palin, Shatner, And Miss Jasmine Have To Teach Us This Season 2009
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Film composer James Horner's Avatar: Music From The Motion Picture aurally seduces best when it's balancing its alien synth layers and aggressive percussive slams with its organic instruments, sprite-like keyboard glisses, and other-worldly voices.
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The Mama Cass-lite vocals are sprite-like, especially while dancing along French, Italian, Spanish, and Neapolitan cobblestones.
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The story — star-crossed lovers squaring off against an evil queen on a fanciful world divided between a reptilian people who can move rocks with their minds and a sprite-like folk who like dragons — borrows liberally from “Star Wars,” “The Lord of the Rings” and “The Dark Crystal,” just without the charm and intelligence.
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There was something about the old woman that appeared youthful, almost sprite-like as she came off her ladder to greet Taryn.
What Dreams May Come Sherrilyn Kenyon, Rebecca York, Robin D. Owens 2005
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She was tiny and thin, sprite-like in spite of her wrinkles, for she must have been in her mid-seventies.
Corpse in the Camera Crayne, J. D. 2003
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And Pearl, overhearing the ejaculation, or aware through some more subtile channel, of those throbs of anguish, would turn her vivid and beautiful little face upon her mother, smile with sprite-like intelligence, and resume her play.
The Scarlet Letter 2002
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