nixie's

That nixie's next stop would be a hamper marked "dead letter office."

Poor Penmanship Spells Job Security for Post Office's Scribble Specialists Barry Newman 2011

Fish darted in and out, minnows that fled at the nixie's approach and trout with iridescent scales that nuzzled her fingers.

Three Hearts and Three Lions Anderson, Poul, 1926- 1953

As if across light-years he heard the nixie's tone change to softness.

Three Hearts and Three Lions Anderson, Poul, 1926- 1953

Bare from her garters up her flesh appears under the sapphire a nixie's green.

Ulysses James Joyce 1911

Her wings were soft and transparent, like those of a white butterfly; and she ever declared that she had once alighted from a cloud, and been caught in a nixie's net spread upon the grass.

Fairy Book Sophie May 1869

I have fared as the minstrel who learned the nixie's songs in order to charm his sweetheart; -- he charmed and charmed so long that at length the magic wove itself round his own soul too, and he could never win himself free therefrom.

Early Plays — Catiline, the Warrior's Barrow, Olaf Liljekrans Henrik Ibsen 1867