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
“I thought dryad wood doesn’t burn,” Christopher said.
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
Behind them, he glimpsed a girl-formed dryad step from the apple tree from which he had plucked the apples.
From "Impossible Creatures" by Katherine Rundell
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The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe
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Tolkien Reading Day, List 7
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Circe
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