Nymphe

For the word Nymphe in Greeke signifieth Well water, or otherwise a Spouse or Bryde.

Shepheardes Calendar 1579

Alexander Wilder,2 states that the term "Nymphe" and its derivations was used to designate young women, brides, the marriage chamber, the lotus flower, oracular temples and the labiae minores of the human female.

The Journal of Abnormal Psychology 1916

Thursday, a Marblehead schooner was ransomed by the "Nymphe" for $400.

Sea Power in its Relations to the War of 1812 Volume 2 1877

The captain of a schooner burned by the British frigate "Nymphe" is told by her commander that he had orders to destroy every vessel large enough to carry two men.

Sea Power in its Relations to the War of 1812 Volume 2 1877

_In this place Poliphilus being left alone, a most fayre Nymphe (when hee was forsaken of the lasciuious company) came vnto him, whose beautie and apparell Poliphilus dooth amourously describe.

Hypnerotomachia The Strife of Loue in a Dreame Francesco Colonna

One pleasant Nymphe spake thus merrily vnto mee saying, giue mee thy hand, thou art verie welcome.

Hypnerotomachia The Strife of Loue in a Dreame Francesco Colonna

The gallant and pleasant Nymphe there stayed; and I also stood still:

Hypnerotomachia The Strife of Loue in a Dreame Francesco Colonna

From Annapolis Lafayette proceeded to Trenton, where Congress was then in session, and on Christmas day he embarked at New York for France in the frigate Nymphe.

Life and Times of Washington Schroeder, J. F. 1903

But as _Le Paon_ followed from the same quarter, with the _Nymphe_ and the _Belle Julie_ heading down as fast as oars could take them, Captain Barker cast a look back and touched his old friend's arm.

The Blue Pavilions Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch 1903

The British 38-gun frigate _Nymphe_ had been lying before the port, but she disappeared long before the

The Naval War of 1812 Or the History of the United States Navy during the Last War with Great Britain to Which Is Appended an Account of the Battle of New Orleans Theodore Roosevelt 1888