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
"Cat eyes," "nixie eyes," are samples of the epithets bestowed upon them.
From The Song of Songs by Hermann Sudermann
And all for a pair of white arms and two nixie eyes?
From The Children of the World by Paul Heyse
On dancing ripples, a nixie is laughing to echoing horns and lures us back to the story.
From Symphonies and Their Meaning; Third Series, Modern Symphonies by Philip H. Goepp
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
