The dread hamadryad leered at him; poisonous toads and lizards scurried for cover. From Wordnik.com. [The Adventures of Piang the Moro Jungle Boy A Book for Young and Old] Reference
The poet's hamadryad and naiad, what are they, indeed, but cobwebby fictions, which must be brushed away if ideal truth is to be revealed?. From Wordnik.com. [The Poet's Poet : essays on the character and mission of the poet as interpreted in English verse of the last one hundred and fifty years] Reference
Not only does it happen in poetry, but common people often go farther than the poet and begin believing in the hamadryad in the wood or the spirit of the waters. From Wordnik.com. [Enquiry Concerning the Origin of Religion] Reference
The bark opened not; the hamadryad had lost the spell. From Wordnik.com. [Audrey] Reference
One never knows what hideous ogre or what exquisite hamadryad one may encounter. From Wordnik.com. [Visions and Revisions A Book of Literary Devotions] Reference
The hamadryad, as you probably know, is perhaps the deadliest of all Eastern reptiles. From Wordnik.com. [Where the Strange Trails Go Down Sulu, Borneo, Celebes, Bali, Java, Sumatra, Straits Settlements, Malay States, Siam, Cambodia, Annam, Cochin-China] Reference
The girl was eighteen; her name was Estelle, and he called her "the hamadryad of St. Eynard.". From Wordnik.com. [The Love Affairs of Great Musicians, Volume 2] Reference
The girl was eighteen; her name was Estelle, and he called her “the hamadryad of St. Eynard.”. From Wordnik.com. [The Love Affairs of Great Musicians]
Science (or rather half-way science) scoffs at reminiscence of dryad and hamadryad, and of trees speaking. From Wordnik.com. [Complete Prose Works Specimen Days and Collect, November Boughs and Goodbye My Fancy] Reference
"Dear me, though; but that is investing the hamadryad with novel and terrible functions," exclaimed Dr. Middleton. From Wordnik.com. [Complete Project Gutenberg Works of George Meredith] Reference
His informant was a hamadryad, whom Jurgen encountered upon the outskirts of a forest overlooking the city from the west. From Wordnik.com. [Jurgen A Comedy of Justice] Reference
He tried to reconstruct from the victim of three-and-sixty years the pink-slippered hamadryad who had haunted him all his life. From Wordnik.com. [The Love Affairs of Great Musicians, Volume 2] Reference
To her companion she gleamed, as if a wood - thing, a hamadryad, had slipped out from the laurel-tree and come to dine with him in the dusk. From Wordnik.com. [Literary Love-Letters and Other Stories] Reference
There was about Hazlitt's wooing of Rachel the pathos which might distinguish the love affair of a Baptist angel and the hamadryad daughter of a Babayaga. From Wordnik.com. [Erik Dorn] Reference
Many monstrous tribes of enemies supervene; also a Forest of Maidens, kind but of hamadryad nature -- "flower-women," as they have been poetically called. From Wordnik.com. [The Flourishing of Romance and the Rise of Allegory (Periods of European Literature, vol. II)] Reference
Practical men are not so scarce, one would think, and I am not sure that the tree was a gainer when the hamadryad flitted and left it nothing but ship-timber. From Wordnik.com. [Among My Books Second Series] Reference
Any face might look out from that mist, any white feet of nymph or hamadryad pass among the glimmering aisles; in the dim, lilac-tinted distance it may be that. From Wordnik.com. [The Spring of Joy: A Little Book of Healing] Reference
The red-coat they had heard of, and in a general way they knew what he signified; but a white woman to them was as fabulous a creature as a mermaid or a hamadryad. From Wordnik.com. [The Woman from Outside [on Swan River]] Reference
A dreadful looking creature, a toad that preys on the real or common toads, swallowing them alive just as the hamadryad swallows other serpents, venomous or not, and as the. From Wordnik.com. [Far Away and Long Ago] Reference
Into the uneventful life of a hamadryad, here in this uncultured forest, could not possibly have entered much pleasurable excitement, and it seemed only right to inject a little. From Wordnik.com. [Jurgen A Comedy of Justice] Reference
"Since the life of a hamadryad is linked with the life of her tree, nobody can harm me so long as my tree lives: and if they cut down my tree I shall die, wherever I may happen to be.". From Wordnik.com. [Jurgen A Comedy of Justice] Reference
It's the hamadryad or king-cobra. From Wordnik.com. [The Jungle Girl] Reference
And as the hamadryad eats the snake. From Wordnik.com. [Poems by Jean Ingelow, In Two Volumes, Volume II.] Reference
Thou shouldst indeed a hamadryad be. From Wordnik.com. [Sonnets-Ad Innuptam] Reference
These were the hamadryad souls of the wood. From Wordnik.com. [AE in the Irish Theosophist] Reference
Also called hamadryad. From Wordnik.com. [In "Maneaters of Kumaon" Jim Corbett mentioned killing a deadly snake he called a Hamadryad (spelling?) that was 13 ft long.] Reference
To any hamadryad!. From Wordnik.com. [Ride to the Lady And Other Poems] Reference
What if he has taken root like a hamadryad? ". From Wordnik.com. [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 53, No. 330, April 1843] Reference
“Like fauns in pursuit of some elusive hamadryad!. From Wordnik.com. [Scales of Justice]
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