dryad

Example Sentences

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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

There was a murmuring of surprise—some in pleasure, some in unease—and then each dryad turned to her own tree, snapped off a large branch, and came forward, holding it in her arms.

From "Impossible Creatures" by Katherine Rundell

Meanwhile, across the Archipelago, the news went out, from ratatoska to dryad to centaur.

From "Impossible Creatures" by Katherine Rundell

He waited another half hour before he said: “You know, the boat of the Immortal is dryad wood.”

From "Impossible Creatures" by Katherine Rundell