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

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

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.

Her face was flushed and her nixie eyes were dancing to the mischief she contemplated.

From An Orkney Maid by Barr, Amelia Edith Huddleston