water sprite
Example Sentences
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Asuka has an easy life with her doting fiancé—but everything’s about to change when she discovers her childhood friend has been reborn as a folkloric water sprite, and she decides to take him home….
From New York Times • Mar. 14, 2011
As I knew him 20-odd years ago, Hartmann was an off-beat character who ... resembled an aged water sprite.
From Time Magazine Archive
But now he is in danger of taking a dunking from a petite, persistent water sprite, Colleen O'Connor, 28.
From Time Magazine Archive
In the Broadway fantasy Ondine, Actress Audrey Hepburn, winner of the best-acting "Tony" award for her role, played the part of a water sprite with fatal charms.
From Time Magazine Archive
Many ballads tell of the beautiful huldre, of the fay who presages the destruction of fishermen, of the water sprite, and of the brownies who, living underground, are covetous of cattle.
From Norway by Jungman, Beatrix
