water sprite
Example Sentences
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Asuka has an easy life with her doting fiancé—but everything’s about to change when she discovers her childhood friend has been reborn as a folkloric water sprite, and she decides to take him home….
From New York Times • Mar. 14, 2011
She will almost certainly become the acting sensation of the season, for in Ondine, she has found a part she can act out ravishingly, whether as water sprite or woman.
From Time Magazine Archive
In the Broadway fantasy Ondine, Actress Audrey Hepburn, winner of the best-acting "Tony" award for her role, played the part of a water sprite with fatal charms.
From Time Magazine Archive
As I knew him 20-odd years ago, Hartmann was an off-beat character who ... resembled an aged water sprite.
From Time Magazine Archive
Martin shut the door, put the bulging suit-case on a chair and watched the girl as she whirled about the hall, as graceful as a water sprite, with eyes alight with mischief and animation.
From Who Cares? a story of adolescence by Hamilton, Cosmo
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