nixie
Example Sentences
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I think of the river and how, when one nixie detached from the others, Cardan waited until it paused and then left so we could get out of the water.
From "The Cruel Prince" by Holly Black
Thus the mysterious nixie swam up and down the lake ten or twelve times, in the profoundest silence.
From The Children of the World by Paul Heyse
"This is a nixie trying to lure me to the depth," I thought.
From A King's Comrade A Story of Old Hereford by Charles W. (Charles Watts) Whistler
On dancing rays and ripples is the laughing nixie; but suddenly breaks the first song of the main figures.
From Symphonies and Their Meaning; Third Series, Modern Symphonies by Philip H. Goepp
The male is called nix, the female nixie, the generic term for both being nicker, from a root which perhaps means ‘to wash.’
From Hero Tales and Legends of the Rhine by Lewis Spence
