dryad

Brilliantly rendered by Rebecca Benson, she shins up trees like a dryad, only to be told by her would-be boyfriend, "you smell like an infected bandage".

From The Guardian ● Jun. 15, 2013

If you stray off the path a jean-clad dryad yells you back on the right course.

From The Guardian ● Aug. 25, 2012

He had been given a woven bag of apples, of plums and pears and apricots: dryad fruit, like nothing else on Earth.

From "Impossible Creatures" by Katherine Rundell

“It is dryad fruit. It will do more for you than any other food.”

From "Impossible Creatures" by Katherine Rundell

Could I put a face in my tree, like a dryad from Greek mythology?

From "Speak" by Laurie Halse Anderson

"We will be nymphs and dryades, and all sorts of woodland things."

From Anne by Woolson, Constance Fenimore

And dryades whom the mists have struck With ague—A Sceptre of Despair!

From Betelguese A Trip Through Hell by de Esque, Jean

In the woods the dryades Hear the sounding pipes of Pan, Leave their temples of the trees And return to haunts of man; This the song they sweetly sing— Ave!

From His Lady of the Sonnets by Norwood, Robert W.

The branches of the trees lash one another like penitential dryades.

From Pictures of Sweden by Andersen, H. C. (Hans Christian)

To hazards that the oils Eschewed, haste dryades that were taught To dance.

From Betelguese A Trip Through Hell by de Esque, Jean

The Peloponnese area of Greece, called Tsakonia, was once called Kynouria and became known for the hypnotic, serpentine dances of the dryads called Karyatides.

From Salon ● Dec. 18, 2023

And her Greek dryads, the Karyatides, still dance today.

From Salon ● Dec. 18, 2023

The children meet other creatures based on classical myth - centaurs, minotaurs, satyrs and dryads.

From The Guardian ● Aug. 19, 2015

Centuries later, the dryads have died from the trees and the naiads from the pools.

From Time Magazine Archive

The dryads came from the wood at the edge of the sands.

From "Impossible Creatures" by Katherine Rundell