Nixies

Barry Newman/The Wall Street Journal Nixies that can't be sorted out get dropped in the 'dead letter office' hamper.

Letters' Last Hope 2011

The motion-activation looks pretty slick: when you roll your wrist up to look at your watch the hours and then the minutes light up in the two Nixies in the watch.

Boing Boing 2007

My little love apprencisses, my dears, the estelles, van Nessies von Nixies voon der pool, which I had a reyal devouts for yet was it marly lowease or just a feel with these which olderman K.K. Alwayswelly he is showing ot the fullnights for my palmspread was gav to a parsleysprig, the curliest weedeen old ocean coils around, so spruce

Finnegans Wake 2006

It was thus the fountains were dancing to the moon in Arabia; it was thus the Nixies shook their white limbs on the haunted banks of the

Quest of the Golden Girl, a Romance Richard Le Gallienne 1906

It was thus the fountains were dancing to the moon in Arabia; it was thus the Nixies shook their white limbs on the haunted banks of the Rhine; it was thus the fairy women flashed their alabaster feet on the fairy hills of Connemara; it was thus the Houris were dancing for Mahomet on the palace floors of Paradise.

The Quest of the Golden Girl 1896

The Nixies, Undines, and Stromkarls were particularly gentle and lovable beings, and were very anxious to obtain repeated assurances of their ultimate salvation.

Myths of the Norsemen From the Eddas and Sagas 1894

Many of the lesser water divinities had fish tails; the females bore the name of Undines, and the males of Stromkarls, Nixies, Necks, or Neckar.

Myths of the Norsemen From the Eddas and Sagas 1894

Courage came with the beard, and so one day he presented himself before the Queen of the Nixies and bowing low, said:

Honey-Bee 1911 Anatole France 1884

And indeed he was only an ignorant child, and it was because of his great ignorance that he had escaped from the deadly and delicious kisses of the Queen of the Nixies.

Honey-Bee 1911 Anatole France 1884

At the end of the grotto was a great sea shell of mother-of-pearl iridescent with the tenderest colours, and this served as a dais to the throne of coral and seaweed of the Queen of the Nixies.

Honey-Bee 1911 Anatole France 1884