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"It's the Dryads and Hamadryads and Silvans," said Trufflehunter.
Prince Caspian Lewis, C. S. 1951
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The Dryads and Hamadryads, Nymphs of the woods and forests.
Roman Antiquities, and Ancient Mythology For Classical Schools (2nd ed) Charles K. Dillaway
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Never did our sylvan sojourn look so fair as when we quitted it, and seemed to see among the streaming sunbeams in the shadows the Hamadryads of the spot returned, and waving us adieux.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 10, No. 62, December, 1862 Various
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The cardinal himself took part in them; but the chief performers were the young King, his brother Gaston d'Orleans, and the maids of honour, figuring as Apollo and the Muses, or Hamadryads adoring some sylvan divinity.
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 55, No. 341, March, 1844 Various
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None of his characters can ever _quite_ make out whether the latest noise is a mewing cat, the wind in the trees or the Great God Pan flirting with the Hamadryads.
Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 152, March 14, 1917 Various
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But for the cathedral-builder, Dryads and Hamadryads, Oreads, Fauns, and Naiads did not exist, -- the Oak of Dodona uttered no oracles.
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Hamadryads veiled themselves, each in her conscious tree, eluding human approach.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 2, No. 14, December 1858 Various
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The Dryads and Hamadryads lived, according to old legend, within the trunks of trees and perished with their homes.
The Sculpture and Mural Decorations of the Exposition A Pictorial Survey of the Art of the Panama-Pacific international exposition Stella George Stern Perry 1916
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The Hebrew genius, unlike that of the Hellenes, was not given to myth-making; it abhorred the personifications of nature to which we are indebted for gods of the elements, for Nereids and Hamadryads; it seldom pursued an allegory to any length; and its "realism" in treating of landscape and visible phenomena strikes most forcibly on the modern imagination.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 11: New Mexico-Philip 1840-1916 1913
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Here is wood and water, meadows and mountains, the Dr.ads and Hamadryads; but here's no Mr. Pepys, no Dr. Gale.
Selected English Letters Various 1913
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