hamadryad

• “So in some vague way Charlie felt he had to go and say that to the tree, as if his father lived hi it like a god damned hamadryad or something; he found it very embarrassing to remember the thing at all, but he remembered, he remembered.”

  Fictionaut: Arcana Magi - c.1: Oryn Zentharis, Seeker of the Truth

• “Not only does it happen in poetry, but common people often go farther than the poet and begin believing in the hamadryad in the wood or the spirit of the waters.”

  Enquiry Concerning the Origin of Religion

• “The dread hamadryad leered at him; poisonous toads and lizards scurried for cover.”

  The Adventures of Piang the Moro Jungle Boy A Book for Young and Old

• “In the pale, elusive moonlight, and with that startled poise of figure, she might well have been the hamadryad at bay of one of her most famous dances.”

  The Lamp of Fate

• “The poet's hamadryad and naiad, what are they, indeed, but cobwebby fictions, which must be brushed away if ideal truth is to be revealed?”

  The Poet's Poet : essays on the character and mission of the poet as interpreted in English verse of the last one hundred and fifty years

• “There was about Hazlitt's wooing of Rachel the pathos which might distinguish the love affair of a Baptist angel and the hamadryad daughter of a Babayaga.”

  Erik Dorn

• “Any face might look out from that mist, any white feet of nymph or hamadryad pass among the glimmering aisles; in the dim, lilac-tinted distance it may be that Merlin still sleeps in his vaporous magic circle.”

  The Spring of Joy: A Little Book of Healing

• “This hamadryad was destined in the outcome to dwindle into a village housewife, she would have taken a lively interest in the number of eggs the hens were laying, she would even have assured her children, precisely in the way her father spoke of John Hughes, that young people ordinarily have foolish fancies which their rational elders agree to disregard.”

  The Certain Hour

• “But when they raised her from the floor they discovered the real cause of her death, for a second hamadryad, which had been concealed by her skirts, darted noiselessly under the bed.”

  Where the Strange Trails Go Down Sulu, Borneo, Celebes, Bali, Java, Sumatra, Straits Settlements, Malay States, Siam, Cambodia, Annam, Cochin-China

• “The hamadryad, as you probably know, is perhaps the deadliest of all Eastern reptiles.”

  Where the Strange Trails Go Down Sulu, Borneo, Celebes, Bali, Java, Sumatra, Straits Settlements, Malay States, Siam, Cambodia, Annam, Cochin-China

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