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Her buoyant step on the snow, over which the frost had drawn the thinnest of shining crusts, gave a nymphlike smoothness to her motion.
From The Side Of The Angels A Novel by Basil King
Both were exquisitely nymphlike, fair and large eyed and both had the fine light hair which is capable of forming itself into a halo.
From The Head of the House of Coombe by Frances Hodgson Burnett
Perhaps the turban that wreathed her head, the brilliant texture and inimitable folds of her drapery, and nymphlike port, more than the essential attributes of her person, gave splendour to the celestial vision.
From Arthur Mervyn Or, Memoirs of the Year 1793 by Charles Brockden Brown
She recoiled, as in pain, as in an approach to fear—this strong, nymphlike creature.
From The History of Sir Richard Calmady A Romance by Lucas Malet
The next day he searched for her with his glass, and saw her playing with one of the children on the beach,—a very picture of child or nymphlike innocence.
From Mr. Jack Hamlin's Mediation by Bret Harte
