water-nymphs

Sinking for the last time, the water-nymphs wrapped their arms around me and held me tight: they sang me to my death.

How Did You Die, the First Time? 2010

Songs were from the Rusalka Cycle, a series involving rusalki, who are the spirits of women who die before their time and who, like Greek water-nymphs, have been known to lure swimmers to their doom.

Archive 2008-01-01 Walter Jon Williams 2008

Victor Aurelius XIV built a magnificent bridge, on which his own statue rises, surrounded by water-nymphs and emblems of victory, peace, and plenty; he has his foot on the neck of a prostrate

Vanity Fair 2006

When the water-nymphs, who were hiding in readiness, had caught her and dragged her out of the sight of her terrified maidens, she herself had not had time to be frightened.

The Brown Fairy Book 2003

There they were, disporting themselves in the clear water, swimming, diving, floating, while around them laughed and splashed fourteen bright-eyed water-nymphs, half a dozen of them as bewitching as any Nixes that ever spread their nets for soft-hearted young _Ritters_ in the old German romance waters.

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 17, No. 101, March, 1866 Various

-- The first act shows a forest, peopled by water-nymphs and fairies, who enjoy their dances in the light of the full-moon.

The Standard Operaglass Detailed Plots of One Hundred and Fifty-one Celebrated Operas Charles Annesley

The first of these was Fred Walker, A.R.A., whose first drawing, printed in the "Almanac," shows a number of water-nymphs sea-bathing around

The History of "Punch" M. H. Spielmann

Centaur water-nymphs are tending, though he still craves thy mother milk, it is fated that he be the husband of Medea, Aeetes 'daughter; do thou aid thy daughter-in-law as a mother-in-law should, and aid Peleus himself.

The Argonautica Apollonius Rhodius

The classical Howard was awfully industrious in grouping some swans, together with several kind-hearted ladies from the adjoining purlieus of Tothill-street, who had been most willingly secured as models for water-nymphs.

Punch, or the London Charivari. Volume 1, July 31, 1841 Various

The floor was of Carrera marble, curiously tesselated, rising in the centre to the support of a fountain, where water-nymphs breathed forth shattered columns of fragrant spray, whose parabolic curves filled a spacious lake below.

The Continental Monthly, Vol. 1, No. 2, February, 1862 Devoted To Literature And National Policy Various