dryad

Example Sentences

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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

Ithilien, the garden of Gondor now desolate kept still a dishevelled dryad loveliness.

From "The Two Towers" by J. R. R. Tolkien

The dryad who stepped from the tree was so beautiful that he forgot, for a moment, the logistics of how to breathe.

From "Impossible Creatures" by Katherine Rundell

“It is dryad fruit. It will do more for you than any other food.”

From "Impossible Creatures" by Katherine Rundell