Oreads

There, I know, the beings whom I call Oreads, for want of a homelier word, haunt and are to be seen now and then.

Lore of Proserpine Maurice Hewlett 1892

Fleming too, who already stood much higher as a lyrist and had travelled widely, lacked the power of describing scenery, and must needs call Oreads, Dryads, Castor and Pollux to his aid.

The Development of the Feeling for Nature in the Middle Ages and Modern Times Alfred Biese 1893

These Oreads are peculiar: they come upon you with an unearthly charm, like some starlight evening; they inspire a wild but not warm delight; their beauty is the beauty of spirits: their grace is not the grace of life, but of seasons or scenes in nature: theirs is the dewy bloom of morning - the languid flush of evening - the peace of the moon - the changefulness of clouds.

Shirley, by Charlotte Bronte 2004

Of Oreads peeping through the leaves of silent moonlit trees.

Collected Poems 2003

But for the cathedral-builder, Dryads and Hamadryads, Oreads, Fauns, and Naiads did not exist, -- the Oak of Dodona uttered no oracles.

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 08, No. 45, July, 1861 Various

Grecian mythology -- I should scarcely have been surprised to find an assemblage of Dryads, Naiads and Oreads sporting on the plain beside us.

By Water to the Columbian Exposition Johanna S. Wisthaler

In the strictly mediaeval plays the shepherds are true French rustics, but with the progress of the Renaissance classical elements creep into the pastoral scenes; in a mystery printed in 1507 Orpheus with the Nymphs and Oreads is introduced.

Christmas in Ritual and Tradition, Christian and Pagan Clement A. Miles

(Pelasgi, Hellenes) the whole of nature was living, and his imagination peopled her everywhere with divine beings, who in wood and field, in rivers and on mountains (Oreads, Dryads, Naiads, Sileni, &c.), hovered friendly round him.

A Comparative View of Religions Johannes Henricus Scholten

"Pink: it is the color of youth, and joy, and love -- worn by the Graces and the Naiads, Oreads and Dryads; -- the color of the sea-shell, and the autumn leaves and flowers -- something like it at least," Jacques added, finding himself mounting into the realms of imagination.

The Youth of Jefferson A Chronicle of College Scrapes at Williamsburg, in Virginia, A.D. 1764 Anonymous

As he beheld their filmy draperies that swayed phantom-like among the crags overhead, he understood those pagan minds of olden days for whom such wavering exhalations were none other than sea-nymphs, Atlantides, offspring of some mild-eyed god of Ocean rising to greet their playfellows, the Oreads, on the hills.

South Wind Norman Douglas 1910