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

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

The kitchen fire was this salamander's second element, for the first and native element of this dear nixie was water.

From Flower, Fruit, and Thorn Pieces; or, the Wedded Life, Death, and Marriage of Firmian Stanislaus Siebenkaes, Parish Advocate in the Burgh of Kuhschnappel. by Jean Paul

"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)

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