The painting showed the gods wooing the nymphs with wine and song. From LearnThat.org.
In its landward migration, the dragon nymph is strictly a pedestrian. From Wordnik.com. [How to Catch Trout on a Fly Rod with Dragon- and Damselfly Imitations] Reference
Mercer's Poxyback Baetis nymph is a great imitation of the midget bluewing olive mayflies that hatch in most areas in August. From Wordnik.com. [10 Tactics For Catching Late-Summer, Low-Water Trout on Small Flies] Reference
I only want you to know how the word nymph is used, so that when you see it in reading about insects you will know what it means. From Wordnik.com. [The Insect Folk] Reference
What fort of a robe this is, called the nymph-1'ike robe. From Wordnik.com. [Edinburgh Fugitive Pieces ...] Reference
The nymph is a stage of the incomplete metamorphosis life cycle. From Wordnik.com. [Vail Daily - Top Stories] Reference
Mela did not like being called a nymph, when anyone could see she was a merwoman on legs. From Wordnik.com. [The Color of Her Panties]
But wiih rhc nvxierB f lir, mcriilian mciit Is a Seice tiling, rl'. ey call a nymph of fpiiit. From Wordnik.com. [Elegant Extracts; Or, Useful and Entertaining Pieces of Poetry: Selected for the Improvement of ...] Reference
LovelyL was in and out, giggling like a sea-nymph, which is what she reminded me of, all in blue. From Wordnik.com. [The Best Weekend] Reference
Like most dragonflies, it has larvae known as nymph which live in the water preying on tadpoles and small fish. From Wordnik.com. Reference
The eldest, Hellen, by a nymph was the father of Dorus, Æolus, and Xuthus, and he gave his name to the nation — Hellenas. From Wordnik.com. [Ancient States and Empires] Reference
Given Raleigh's making his speaker seem almost ageless, I figured the nymph was a nature deity as far as he was concerned, at least. From Wordnik.com. [Anime Nano!] Reference
He called the nymph; but -- no doubt because there was something unusual and frightful in his tone she did not appear, nor answer him. From Wordnik.com. [The Marble Faun - Volume 2 The Romance of Monte Beni] Reference
The same applies to the scolex of wasps and bees, but after this comes into being the so-called nymph .... and have nothing of the kind. From Wordnik.com. [On the Generation of Animals] Reference
For me the searching nymph is Red Squirrel tail. From Wordnik.com. [Can You Pick the Right Bug?] Reference
Is a fierce thing, they call a nymph of spirit. From Wordnik.com. [The Poetical Works of Edward Young, Volume 2] Reference
It enabled him to speak of a woman as a "nymph," or a "fair"; of sheep as. From Wordnik.com. [A History of English Romanticism in the Eighteenth Century] Reference
"She was a fairy, though in heathen language she is called a nymph, -- Egeria. From Wordnik.com. [Kenelm Chillingly — Complete] Reference
The ash-tray, he also saw, was a kind of nymph, her spread drapery forming the receptacle. From Wordnik.com. [The Centaur] Reference
But, like you said, I suppose it doesn't matter as long as the word "nymph" is there, given its range of connotations. From Wordnik.com. [Anime Nano!] Reference
Sir Walter Raleigh was about as skeptical as Violet in the movie, and he wrote a poem in which the "nymph" responds to Marlowe's shepherd. From Wordnik.com. [Semicolon] Reference
"nymph" or fairy -- the belief in which is nearly similar to the popular and poetical idea of those beings in Europe. From Wordnik.com. [The Poetical Works of William Lisle Bowles, Vol. 1 With Memoir, Critical Dissertation, and Explanatory Notes by George Gilfillan] Reference
You may be the tall, young, hot nymph, but I am the prize. From Wordnik.com. [Christopher Brauchli: Sex Laws and 2 Wisconsin District Attorneys] Reference
Back came the imitation, shot out of the wood by the nymph. From Wordnik.com. [Janice Day at Poketown] Reference
We asked where they were, and the nymph Echo answered "where!". From Wordnik.com. [The Royal Guide to Wax Flower Modelling] Reference
When they hatch carefully study the young nymph and describe it. From Wordnik.com. [An Elementary Study of Insects] Reference
Narcissus or nymph in whose orisons all their sins shall be remembered. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 14, No. 85, November, 1864] Reference
Count's wife to be a mer-maid, and they sing a ballad of the water-nymph. From Wordnik.com. [The Standard Operaglass Detailed Plots of One Hundred and Fifty-one Celebrated Operas] Reference
One cannot imagine him turning her into a nymph, a shepherdess, or a priestess of. From Wordnik.com. [McClure's Magazine, Vol 31, No 2, June 1908] Reference
Quiznos oven and wood nymph: Do I get credit for working them into the same post?. From Wordnik.com. [Last Tango at Quiznos] Reference
Save the cast skin and try to follow the nymph thru all the nymph stages to the adult. From Wordnik.com. [An Elementary Study of Insects] Reference
I showed them how to distinguish grasshoppers in the nymph and adult (with wings) stages. From Wordnik.com. [The Chicken Chronicles] Reference
Dressed in her pink tights, she looked like a blithe nymph playing with rollicking cupids. From Wordnik.com. [The Bill-Toppers] Reference
That was when she became a nymph, which meant she was full of light and energy and her body glowed. From Wordnik.com. [Melliflua and the Fauns] Reference
A portrait on the wall, covered with fly-spots, shows a nymph with a lyre, standing beside a waterfall. From Wordnik.com. [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference
Fauns tended to be clumsy, carelessly crashing into bushes that a nymph knew how to pass without a tremor. From Wordnik.com. [Melliflua and the Fauns] Reference
"Acis is turned into a water nymph at the end, and I'm sure it's because they had a fountain there," said Walker. From Wordnik.com. [Washington Concert Opera's Antony Walker reads 'Scandal of the Season' and more] Reference
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