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
Ithilien, the garden of Gondor now desolate kept still a dishevelled dryad loveliness.
From "The Two Towers" by J. R. R. Tolkien
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
There was a murmuring of surprise—some in pleasure, some in unease—and then each dryad turned to her own tree, snapped off a large branch, and came forward, holding it in her arms.
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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