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

Her face was flushed and her nixie eyes were dancing to the mischief she contemplated.

From An Orkney Maid by Barr, Amelia Edith Huddleston

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 Goepp, Philip H.

The teasing motive of the nixie returns while the trumpet sounds a shadowy echo of its phrase, again to dying peal of bells.

From Symphonies and Their Meaning; Third Series, Modern Symphonies by Goepp, Philip H.

And all for a pair of white arms and two nixie eyes?

From The Children of the World by Heyse, Paul