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
Even the people on the shore, peasants with their carts and solitary pedestrians, stopped as if enchanted, and gazed at the black ship slowly dividing the waves bearing a singing nixie on her deck.
From The Romance of the Canoness A Life-History by Paul Heyse
And all for a pair of white arms and two nixie eyes?
From The Children of the World by Paul Heyse
"This is a nixie trying to lure me to the depth," I thought.
From A King's Comrade A Story of Old Hereford by Charles W. (Charles Watts) Whistler
"Here I am, papa!" cried a clear girlish voice, "wet as a nixie; we were up on the Wolkenstein all through the storm; just see how we look, Griff and I!"
From The Alpine Fay A Romance by Elisabeth Buerstenbinder (AKA E. Werner)
