dryad
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Brilliantly rendered by Rebecca Benson, she shins up trees like a dryad, only to be told by her would-be boyfriend, "you smell like an infected bandage".
From The Guardian ● Jun. 15, 2013
If you stray off the path a jean-clad dryad yells you back on the right course.
From The Guardian ● Aug. 25, 2012
He waited another half hour before he said: “You know, the boat of the Immortal is dryad wood.”
From "Impossible Creatures" by Katherine Rundell
Ithilien, the garden of Gondor now desolate kept still a dishevelled dryad loveliness.
From "The Two Towers" by J. R. R. Tolkien
“It’s because no dryad would give her tree for wood. It would be like giving your own skin.”
From "Impossible Creatures" by Katherine Rundell
And dryades whom the mists have struck With ague—A Sceptre of Despair!
From Betelguese A Trip Through Hell by Jean de Esque
To hazards that the oils Eschewed, haste dryades that were taught To dance.
From Betelguese A Trip Through Hell by Jean de Esque
The branches of the trees lash one another like penitential dryades.
From Pictures of Sweden by H. C. (Hans Christian) Andersen
"We will be nymphs and dryades, and all sorts of woodland things."
From Anne by Constance Fenimore Woolson
In the woods the dryades Hear the sounding pipes of Pan, Leave their temples of the trees And return to haunts of man; This the song they sweetly sing— Ave!
From His Lady of the Sonnets by Robert W. Norwood
And her Greek dryads, the Karyatides, still dance today.
From Salon ● Dec. 18, 2023
The Peloponnese area of Greece, called Tsakonia, was once called Kynouria and became known for the hypnotic, serpentine dances of the dryads called Karyatides.
From Salon ● Dec. 18, 2023
The children meet other creatures based on classical myth - centaurs, minotaurs, satyrs and dryads.
From The Guardian ● Aug. 19, 2015
His horses are spindly, half-seen nags, and the dryads, babies and damsels in his decorative paintings are boneless stereotypes.
From Time Magazine Archive
The corridor was flanked on both sides by marble statues of creatures: nymphs and dryads, armed centaurs, a unicorn.
From "Impossible Creatures" by Katherine Rundell
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The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe
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