dryades
- plural of dryad.
Example Sentences
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In the woods the dryades Hear the sounding pipes of Pan, Leave their temples of the trees And return to haunts of man; This the song they sweetly sing— Ave!
From His Lady of the Sonnets by Norwood, Robert W.
And dryades whom the mists have struck With ague—A Sceptre of Despair!
From Betelguese A Trip Through Hell by de Esque, Jean
"We will be nymphs and dryades, and all sorts of woodland things."
From Anne by Woolson, Constance Fenimore
To hazards that the oils Eschewed, haste dryades that were taught To dance.
From Betelguese A Trip Through Hell by de Esque, Jean
The branches of the trees lash one another like penitential dryades.
From Pictures of Sweden by Andersen, H. C. (Hans Christian)
