Nixy

CHRISTINA PURCELL, a happy, pure girl, whose sheltered life and frank innocence contrast strongly with the heavy shadows glooming over outcast "Nixy" in _Hedged In. _

Character Sketches of Romance, Fiction and the Drama, Vol. 1 A Revised American Edition of the Reader's Handbook Ebenezer Cobham Brewer 1853

Nixy, you rock with your very detailed explanation.

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This is one of the instances in which he is lured from the plain path by the Nixy _Onomatopoeia_.

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 06, No. 34, August, 1860 Various

"Where's Nixy?" he inquired angrily of his neighbor on the right.

The Boy Scout Treasure Hunters The Lost Treasure of Buffalo Hollow Charles Henry Lerrigo 1916

"Nixy dream book," declared Peter, with the dignity which comes of much knowledge.

Boy Scouts in the Canal Zone The Plot Against Uncle Sam 1909

"Nixy I've got to look over some papers in connection with my coming election as president of a big club."

Raspberry Jam Carolyn Wells 1902

The master told him simply to banish such folly from his brain, to apply himself diligently to his scales, and not to bother himself about the Nixy.

Boyhood in Norway 1892

The reason of this, his mother told him, according to the superstition of her people, was that the Nixy and the Hulder1 and the gnomes favored him because he was a Sunday child.

Boyhood in Norway 1892

If it had not been for his desire to see the Hulder and the Nixy, and making them promise the fulfilment of the three wishes, he would have given up the struggle, and resigned himself to being a bad boy because he was born so.

Boyhood in Norway 1892

It occurred to Nils again, that unless the Nixy took pity on him and taught him that marvellous, airy strain he would never catch it.

Boyhood in Norway 1892