Example Sentences

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He left as many wrought stones as a volcano �a giant's spawn, beyond precise inventory; countless groups of lovers, nymphs, Naiads, Tritons, Muses.

From Time Magazine Archive

Naiads and dryads tried to help, using nature magic songs to heal burns and poison.

From "The Last Olympian" by Rick Riordan

In the tenth Eclogue Gallus is thus identified with the Daphnis of Sicilian song, and is represented as the object of care to the Naiads and Pan and Apollo.

From The Roman Poets of the Augustan Age: Virgil by Sellar, W. Y.

The Naiads have welcomed me here for more than sixty years, and still they guard this sacred fountain for me.

From Rambles with John Burroughs by Loach, Robert John de

And then came tree-nymphs and light-footed Naiads, flocking to see the new-comer.

From Tales from Spenser; Chosen from the Faerie Queene by Spencer, Edmund