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
She has a kind of nixie, tantalising, bewitching charm that would drive a crowd mad.
From A Singer from the Sea by Amelia Edith Huddleston Barr
And all for a pair of white arms and two nixie eyes?
From The Children of the World by Paul Heyse
Thus the mysterious nixie swam up and down the lake ten or twelve times, in the profoundest silence.
From The Children of the World by Paul Heyse
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
