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

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 Heyse, Paul

She has a kind of nixie, tantalising, bewitching charm that would drive a crowd mad.

From A Singer from the Sea by Barr, Amelia Edith Huddleston

"Cat eyes," "nixie eyes," are samples of the epithets bestowed upon them.

From The Song of Songs by Sudermann, Hermann

"This is a nixie trying to lure me to the depth," I thought.

From A King's Comrade A Story of Old Hereford by Whistler, Charles W. (Charles Watts)