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Mrs. Towne, pallid Loraine and nympholeptic little Elaine went to Europe.

From Time Magazine Archive

Nymphs of mountain, not of valley, we are wont to call the Muses; And in nympholeptic climbing, poets pass from mount to star.

From The Poetical Works of Elizabeth Barrett Browning Volume II by Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

It lifts its dainty face till sunset hour, As if endowed with nympholeptic power,— Then shuts its petals like a folding tune!

From Love Letters of a Violinist and Other Poems by Mackay, Eric