nixie
Example Sentences
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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
And all for a pair of white arms and two nixie eyes?
From The Children of the World by Paul Heyse
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
You were then a child; Now you are a nixie, spell-weaving, wild.
From The Feast at Solhoug by William Archer
The Nixie of the Mummel-lake The legend of the nixie of Seebach is one of gloom and tragedy, albeit as charming as most of the Rhine tales.
From Hero Tales and Legends of the Rhine by Lewis Spence
