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

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.

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

"Cat eyes," "nixie eyes," are samples of the epithets bestowed upon them.

From The Song of Songs by Sudermann, Hermann

Even the people on the shore, peasants with their carts and solitary pedestrians, stopped as if enchanted, and gazed at the black ship slowly dividing the waves bearing a singing nixie on her deck.

From The Romance of the Canoness A Life-History by Heyse, Paul