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
"This is a nixie trying to lure me to the depth," I thought.
From A King's Comrade A Story of Old Hereford by Whistler, Charles W. (Charles Watts)
And all for a pair of white arms and two nixie eyes?
From The Children of the World by Heyse, Paul
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
"Cat eyes," "nixie eyes," are samples of the epithets bestowed upon them.
From The Song of Songs by Sudermann, Hermann
