nixie
Example Sentences
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I think of the river and how, when one nixie detached from the others, Cardan waited until it paused and then left so we could get out of the water.
From "The Cruel Prince" by Holly Black
On dancing rays and ripples is the laughing nixie; but suddenly breaks the first song of the main figures.
From Symphonies and Their Meaning; Third Series, Modern Symphonies by Philip H. Goepp
The kitchen fire was this salamander's second element, for the first and native element of this dear nixie was water.
From Flower, Fruit, and Thorn Pieces; or, the Wedded Life, Death, and Marriage of Firmian Stanislaus Siebenkaes, Parish Advocate in the Burgh of Kuhschnappel. by Jean Paul
And all for a pair of white arms and two nixie eyes?
From The Children of the World by Paul Heyse
Thus the mysterious nixie swam up and down the lake ten or twelve times, in the profoundest silence.
From The Children of the World by Paul Heyse
