sea-maiden
- a variation of sea-maid.
Example Sentences
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Huldbrand often said in his own mind, "This comes when like marries not like—when a man forms an unnatural union with a sea-maiden."
From Undine by La Motte-Fouqué, Friedrich Heinrich Karl Freiherr de
Our whole West Country is full of the most wonderful stories one might seek in vain for among the world of books and scholars—of giants and dwarfs, fairies, wizards, water-horse, and sea-maiden.
From John Splendid The Tale of a Poor Gentleman, and the Little Wars of Lorn by Munro, Neil
The king's son knelt beside her bed: She was his ere a month had passed; And the cold sea-maiden he had wed Grew a tender wife at last.
From Ranald Bannerman's Boyhood by MacDonald, George
I did not really know that she was a sea-maiden.
From The German Classics of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, Volume 05 Masterpieces of German Literature Translated into English by Various
Like Anderssen's little sea-maiden she went, every step on sharp knives, across the rough beds of barnacles; but she felt no pain, in the greatness of her terror and her love.
From Two Years Ago, Volume II. by Kingsley, Charles
