nixie
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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 Lewis Spence
You were then a child; Now you are a nixie, spell-weaving, wild.
From The Feast at Solhoug by William Archer
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 Philip H. Goepp
On dancing rays and ripples is the laughing nixie; but suddenly breaks the first song of the main figures.
From Symphonies and Their Meaning; Third Series, Modern Symphonies by Philip H. Goepp
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