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
A dryad brought him bread made from walnuts and a bowl of crushed apricots stewed with honey.
From "Impossible Creatures" by Katherine Rundell
Returning to the tree he was blinded by the dryad, who was angry at the disregard of her words and the injury to her messenger.
From "Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes" by Edith Hamilton
He waited another half hour before he said: “You know, the boat of the Immortal is dryad wood.”
From "Impossible Creatures" by Katherine Rundell
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
