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

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 Spence, Lewis

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

"This is a nixie trying to lure me to the depth," I thought.

From A King's Comrade A Story of Old Hereford by Whistler, Charles W. (Charles Watts)

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