wood-nymph

• “This is an about-face from her last fall's collection -- a Robin Hood-style romp through wood-nymph caps and feathers that seemed more fairy tale than reality.”

  The Wall Street Journal: Lean Times Beget Fresh Fashion Ideas

• “This appears to have been a common wood-nymph Cercyonis pegala.”

  The trouble with compact cameras

• “It is not merely a repetition of what was worth repeating in the bell, but partly the voice of the wood; the same trivial words and notes sung by a wood-nymph.”

  Walden

• “Did it not suggest the sanctuary of some wood-nymph chanting never so faint a death psalm — a monotone which the idlest zephyr might still?”

  Tropic Days

• “And Atirupa laughed joyfully, and he exclaimed: O Chamu, thou art certainly bewitched, and this wood-nymph has cast over thee a spell: turning thee into a very breeze of sandalwood from Malaya.”

  Bubbles of the Foam

• “Well, Echo was a beautiful wood-nymph, fond of the woods and hills, where she devoted herself to woodland sports.”

  Dawn

• “The figure of Echo is repeated later in "The Crowning of the Elect," in Orvieto, though there it has lost much of the idyllic charm of this wood-nymph.”

  Luca Signorelli

• “Dian, a wood-nymph, and a sweet girl playing upon a lute, habited according to a picture of Calypso by David.”

  Travels through the South of France and the Interior of Provinces of Provence and Languedoc in the Years 1807 and 1808

• “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.”

  The Forest King Wild Hunter of the Adaca

• “Pholoe > (A beautiful wood-nymph, loved by Pan) 106.16”

  The Faerie Queene — Volume 01

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