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
"Here I am, papa!" cried a clear girlish voice, "wet as a nixie; we were up on the Wolkenstein all through the storm; just see how we look, Griff and I!"
From The Alpine Fay A Romance by Elisabeth Buerstenbinder (AKA E. Werner)
She has a kind of nixie, tantalising, bewitching charm that would drive a crowd mad.
From A Singer from the Sea by Barr, Amelia Edith Huddleston
You were then a child; Now you are a nixie, spell-weaving, wild.
From The Feast at Solhoug by Archer, William
The teasing motive of the nixie returns while the trumpet sounds a shadowy echo of its phrase, again to dying peal of bells.
From Symphonies and Their Meaning; Third Series, Modern Symphonies by Goepp, Philip H.
