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

It was whispered among them that she was a nixie from the Mummel-lake far under the mountains, for never mortal was so richly endowed with beauty and grace.

From Hero Tales and Legends of the Rhine by Spence, Lewis

On dancing ripples, a nixie is laughing to echoing horns and lures us back to the story.

From Symphonies and Their Meaning; Third Series, Modern Symphonies by Goepp, Philip H.

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.

He's pretty well set up now, and he evidently has his eye upon this brown-eyed nixie.

From A Fascinating Traitor An Anglo-Indian Story by Savage, Richard