She was a child of the whole world, as the naiad is the child of the river, and the oread of the mountain. From Wordnik.com. [There & Back] Reference
Hylas repelling the addresses of the lew'd naiad: in another part was. From Wordnik.com. [The Satyricon of Petronius Arbiter] Reference
He thumbed through the pages to the N's and pointed out the word naiad. From Wordnik.com. [THE UPS AND DOWNS OF LIFE WITH A CON ARTIST] Reference
EXTENSIVE ARTIFICIAL LAKE, on which floated, like a nymph or naiad, a beautiful. From Wordnik.com. [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 54, No. 333, July 1843] Reference
And the sky -- no, it was not the sky, but the blue eyes of his naiad looking down upon him!. From Wordnik.com. [Harper's Young People, December 30, 1879 An Illustrated Weekly] Reference
The central figure of the group, a naiad, beckoned with a hand from which the water fell in a shower. From Wordnik.com. [The Girl and The Bill An American Story of Mystery, Romance and Adventure] Reference
Surrounded by her followers, Lady Rosamond appeared as a naiad holding revel with her sylvan subjects. From Wordnik.com. [Lady Rosamond's Secret A Romance of Fredericton] Reference
The naiad was sitting on my bed in her nightgown, her Pre-Raphaelite auburn hair streaming down her back. From Wordnik.com. [To Say Nothing of the Dog]
The gold satin bow waved in the breeze at me, looking like a willowy naiad or dryad from Greek mythology. From Wordnik.com. [Anhedonia (excerpt 2)] Reference
The naiad hummed under her breath and the gills on the side of her neck yawned pink against her pale blue skin. From Wordnik.com. [Why we proofread before turning in a manuscript] Reference
And worse still, she's being shadowed by her ditsy twin sister -- a naiad who simply can't seem to stay out of trouble. From Wordnik.com. [New Book Releases for Urban Fantasy, Paranormal Romance and Fantasy – November 3, 2009] Reference
The naiad scowled; they didn't like the filthy water of the Thames inside the London basin, and Peter didn't blame them. From Wordnik.com. [The Serpent's Shadow]
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
Endangered species in the area include several plants, like the smooth tick trefoil, downy bushclover, threadlaid naiad, downy milk pea and a rynchosia. From Wordnik.com. [Chesapeake Bay National Estuarine Research Reserve, Maryland] Reference
From time to time, a steeper path appeared; our naiad then began to tumble before us with a hoarser murmur, and we went down with her to a greater depth. From Wordnik.com. [Journey to the Interior of the Earth] Reference
No faun, no selkie, no naiad, and the stocks of human and Centaur — in the cold-larders and in the fattening pens — were (so he said) dangerously low. From Wordnik.com. [The Outstretched Shadow] Reference
Fandor rose and went toward the base of the naiad. From Wordnik.com. [A Royal Prisoner] Reference
I might imagine myself "a nymph, a naiad, or a grace.". From Wordnik.com. [Ernest Linwood or, The Inner Life of the Author] Reference
"Have you come at last, my naiad queen?" said the youth. From Wordnik.com. [The Home in the Valley] Reference
Association now and she was as pretty a naiad as there was. From Wordnik.com. [We Can't Have Everything] Reference
Was she salamander or sylph, naiad or undine, oread or dryad?. From Wordnik.com. [There & Back] Reference
She vanished like a naiad startled by the approach of a mortal. From Wordnik.com. [The Trembling of a Leaf Little Stories of the South Sea Islands] Reference
Kirsty walked like an Olympian goddess beside the naiad of a brook. From Wordnik.com. [Heather and Snow] Reference
She was on the defensive, ready for headlong flight, like a naiad startled. From Wordnik.com. [Madcap] Reference
Aesepus and Pedasus, whom the naiad nymph Abarbarea had borne to noble Bucolion. From Wordnik.com. [The Iliad] Reference
Many the time has she sprung from that projecting point to swim, naiad-like, underneath it. From Wordnik.com. [Gaspar the Gaucho A Story of the Gran Chaco] Reference
She looked very pretty doing it, like a naiad or dryad scrubbing away at her forest toilet. From Wordnik.com. [Police!!!] Reference
No naiad haunts the rushy margin of our lakes, or hallows with her presence our forest-rills. From Wordnik.com. [The Backwoods of Canada Being Letters From The Wife of an Emigrant Officer, Illustrative of the Domestic Economy of British America] Reference
"And when I told you the water was fine, and you came in, too, they probably took you for a naiad.". From Wordnik.com. [A Daughter of the Dons A Story of New Mexico Today] Reference
Some naiad Circe combs her hair far below the weeds, and has bewitched the wildfowl and the green cold water. From Wordnik.com. [Highways and Byways in Surrey] Reference
He imagined a joke about her being a fiery spirit, or nymph, naiad, whatever, from one of her native gas-wells. From Wordnik.com. [A Hazard of New Fortunes — Complete] Reference
"There is not room for both," she declared, looking like a dripping naiad, as the rain-drops thickened about her. From Wordnik.com. [An Algonquin Maiden A Romance of the Early Days of Upper Canada] Reference
"A naiad queen might bathe her feet before you; but I--" She ceased speaking, and a deep blush suffused her cheeks. From Wordnik.com. [The Home in the Valley] Reference
She returned toward him, panting and laughing, shimmering like a sea-naiad under the glistening veil of her disheveled hair. From Wordnik.com. [The Honor of the Big Snows] Reference
Moreover, from time to time the slopes were much greater, the naiad sang more loudly, and we began to dip downwards in earnest. From Wordnik.com. [Voyage au centre de la terre. English] Reference
This Wabanaki mythology, which was that which gave a fairy, an elf, a naiad, or a hero to every rock and river and ancient hill in New. From Wordnik.com. [Algonquin Legends of New England] Reference
Dorothy's cares were divided between the duties of naiad and nursemaid, for the child clung to her as to no one else except her mother. From Wordnik.com. [St. George and St. Michael Volume II] Reference
From time to time, a steeper path appeared; our naiad then began to tumble before us with a hoarser murmur, and we went down with her to. From Wordnik.com. [A Journey to the Interior of the Earth] Reference
Jennie ran home in great haste as soon as she was free from her limping companion; and Dotty entered the side-door dripping like a naiad. From Wordnik.com. [Dotty Dimple at Her Grandmother's] Reference
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