dryad
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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
“If she can’t walk,” said the dryad, “how is she going to go through the maze?”
From "Impossible Creatures" by Katherine Rundell
Returning to the tree he was blinded by the dryad, who was angry at the disregard of her words and the injury to her messenger.
From "Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes" by Edith Hamilton
The dryad who would have perished with it told him to ask anything he desired and she would give it.
From "Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes" by Edith Hamilton
The branches of the trees lash one another like penitential dryades.
From Pictures of Sweden by H. C. (Hans Christian) Andersen
"We will be nymphs and dryades, and all sorts of woodland things."
From Anne by Constance Fenimore Woolson
And dryades whom the mists have struck With ague—A Sceptre of Despair!
From Betelguese A Trip Through Hell by Jean de Esque
To hazards that the oils Eschewed, haste dryades that were taught To dance.
From Betelguese A Trip Through Hell by Jean de Esque
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 Robert W. Norwood
And her Greek dryads, the Karyatides, still dance today.
From Salon ● Dec. 18, 2023
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
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
“Perhaps very few humans know why. But some creatures do. We sphinxes take in news from everything—the ratatoskas, the stars, the naiads and dryads and nereids. Even the manticores.”
From "Impossible Creatures" by Katherine Rundell
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