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
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 Philip H. Goepp
On dancing ripples, a nixie is laughing to echoing horns and lures us back to the story.
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
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
