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• The splinters of every form lay scattered where the currents of electricity in their fearful descent had rent in fragments some giant of the forest, torn out its oaken heart and scattered its ribs and limbs upon the forest floor After viewing the wonders of Nature, Esock Mayall was returning to the wigwam along the path of flowers, when that wood-nymph, the chief's daughter, appeared before him, gentle as the ring-dove And the glory of youth clung around her I felt her ambrosial breath on my cheek Like the scent and perfume of wild roses She seemed to appear in all the beauty of innocence. —  The Forest King Wild Hunter of the Adaca
• And following slow The zigzag of its to-and-fro And so intent upon its flight She neither look'd to left nor right Came a tall girl with floating hair Light as a wood-nymph, and as fair O Dea certй!_--thought poor Dick And thereupon his memories quick Ran back to her who flung the ball In HOMER'S page, and next to all The dancing maids that bards have sung Lastly to One at home, as young As fresh, as light of foot, and glad Who, when he went, had seem'd so sad O Dea certй! —  Collected Poems In Two Volumes, Vol. II
• Selima, the cat, is called a nymph, with some violence both to language and sense; but there is no good use made of it when it is done: for of the two lines What female heart can gold despise What cat's averse to fish The first relates merely to the nymph, and the second only to the cat. —  The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D. in Nine Volumes Volume the Eighth: The Lives of the Poets, Volume II
• They are so brightly colored that they can easily be seen and most boys and girls have seen them on the leaves of squashes or pumpkins Illustration: Cluster of golden-brown eggs of squash stink-bug showing two recently hatched nymphs In a few days after they are laid they hatch and out of each crawls a small, long-legged blackish or greenish young bug called the nymph. —  An Elementary Study of Insects
• Yet she is wholly an earth-nymph, and the son of Aurora must not only leave her, but himself slay her; the myth of Semele desiring to see Zeus, and of Apollo and Coronis, and this having all the same main interest. —  Lectures on Landscape Delivered at Oxford in Lent Term, 1871

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