The kelpie is a working sheepdog, a participator in dog trials, public displays of skill in marshaling sheep into pens.    From Wordnik.com.  [VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol XIV No 3] Reference

It won't be long until my 14 year old kelpie needs an Emma.    From Wordnik.com.  [back on the roundabout] Reference

The first employee it may surprise some would be a brown kelpie.    From Wordnik.com.  [Cheeseburger Gothic » Calling all Texans…] Reference

She encounters the powerful kelpie Whiskey and manages to bind him.    From Wordnik.com.  [Review: _Blood and Iron_ by Elizabeth Bear] Reference

"A water-kelpie," murmured another of the Captain's gigs, a Scotchman.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 20, No. 579, December 8, 1832] Reference

I just got to the kelpie in chapter 1 when my mom said dinner was ready.    From Wordnik.com.  [seanan_mcguire: The Three Sisters: Fantasy, Horror, and Marchen.] Reference

For a recent book featuring a kelpie, check out Elizabeth Bear's Blood and Iron.    From Wordnik.com.  [HH Com 461 (460 is ice skating at Rockefeller Center)] Reference

Simon watched a kelpie skip past, carrying a glass of blue fluid, and raised an eyebrow.    From Wordnik.com.  [City of Glass] Reference

Pop this water-kelpie in the bath-tub and then bed her with two hot bricks, a dram and a basin of broth.    From Wordnik.com.  [My Bones Will Keep]

The dog in the story is not a gentle kelpie but a fearsome fighting hound, and he dies from battle wounds.    From Wordnik.com.  [Writer Unboxed » Blog Archive » Love, loss and deadlines] Reference

It's based on "Bridle" (Sirenia Digest #3, February 2006), which a few of you might remember, the kelpie story.    From Wordnik.com.  ["...my words will turn to anger. Malevolence in need..."] Reference

You'd have found a kelpie at every ford-and on moonlit nights, the woods and meadows would be thick with dancing parties.    From Wordnik.com.  [Born To Run]

In "Bridle," an equally unhappy woman begins to have unnerving dreams about a kelpie trapped in a small pond near her home.    From Wordnik.com.  [Bonkus on the Konkus] Reference

According to legend, the stone is cursed and guarded by a malevolent water-demon, or kelpie-type entity, who protects it savagely.    From Wordnik.com.  [the black dog and the scottish play, indeed] Reference

Coupled with the amoral creatures of Faery like Whiskey the kelpie, the characters keep the book entertaining with their conflicts.    From Wordnik.com.  [Review: _Blood and Iron_ by Elizabeth Bear] Reference

I skirted them as far off as I could, as though they were the lochans of a nightmare that drag the traveller to their kelpie tenants 'arms.    From Wordnik.com.  [John Splendid The Tale of a Poor Gentleman, and the Little Wars of Lorn] Reference

Many wonderful exploits are attributed to the kelpie.    From Wordnik.com.  [Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland, Volume XXIV.] Reference

"Hoo kenned ye it was a kelpie -- it's maist as dark's pick?".    From Wordnik.com.  [Warlock o' Glenwarlock] Reference

He went down at once to the pool and stood by the kelpie willow.    From Wordnik.com.  [Foes] Reference

One day, the water-kelpie appeared to him in the form of an old man.    From Wordnik.com.  [Fairy Book] Reference

"A water -- kelpie," murmured another of the Captain's gigs, a Scotchman.    From Wordnik.com.  [Tom Cringle's Log] Reference

Sometimes I know that in sleep or dream I have been beside a kelpie pool.    From Wordnik.com.  [Foes] Reference

When the kelpie haunted the shadowed flood, and the dryad dwelt in the tree.    From Wordnik.com.  [Double Trouble Or, Every Hero His Own Villain] Reference

As kelpie said "humanizing a non-human animal" is a selfish act by the human.    From Wordnik.com.  [Wrong Planet Asperger / Autism Forums] Reference

"Then," said the kelpie "go home, and to-morrow you shall see Moneta and her child.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Fairy Book] Reference

A brown dog is a red kelpie, said to be able to digest everything except poison bait.    From Wordnik.com.  [VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol XIV No 3] Reference

Red Dog is based on the life of a russett-coloured kelpie (Australian sheep dog) who became.    From Wordnik.com.  [Latest News - Yahoo!7 News] Reference

Queensland floods: Canine airlift saves stranded kelpie IN the southeast Queensland town of.    From Wordnik.com.  [NEWS.com.au | Top Stories] Reference

England we find her congener in the water-kelpie, who lurks in pools lying in wait for victims.    From Wordnik.com.  [Hero Tales and Legends of the Rhine] Reference

'' We reckon they're around eight or nine weeks old and they are kelpie cross puppies, '' she said.    From Wordnik.com.  [Townsville Bulletin Latest News] Reference

He mentions, as instances of popular beliefs that have poetic capabilities, the kelpie, the will-o'-the-wisp, and second sight.    From Wordnik.com.  [A History of English Romanticism in the Eighteenth Century] Reference

I lain in snow with only my plaid for cover, and heard the spirits call in the icy wind, the kelpie shriek beneath the frozen loch.    From Wordnik.com.  [Audrey] Reference

As to the others, what's the difference between a kelpie and a pixy? ".    From Wordnik.com.  [Patty in Paris] Reference

One is a kelpie, and one is a pixy; that's about all the difference. ".    From Wordnik.com.  [Patty in Paris] Reference

"She came down here once as a bit of a girl, dancing over the sands like a water kelpie.    From Wordnik.com.  [Killykinick] Reference