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  • Elk Hair caddis by far my best dry fly, and Prince Nymph is my favorite wet fly.

    What's your favorite fly? 2009

  • Elk Hair caddis by far my best dry fly, and Prince Nymph is my favorite wet fly.

    What's your favorite fly? 2009

  • The Berry Nymph is new and stylish but appears to have just a little too much flash to be truly productive except for run-off.

    NFL Fly Challenge for Week #3 Office Pool Tim Romano 2007

  • This shall be called Nymph, even if she has no place in the books.

    The Little Lady of the Big House Jack London 1896

  • Cold indeed she must have been -- quite as of the tombstone temperament; but that objection would drop if she might only be called a Nymph, since nymphs were mild and moderate, and since discussion of a work of art mainly hung in those days on that issue of the producible _name_.

    A Small Boy and Others Henry James 1879

  • Last year Branson unveiled a three-person submarine called the Necker Nymph, which is available for $2,500 a day for guests of his private resort in the Caribbean.

    KansasCity.com: Front Page 2011

  • Last year Branson unveiled a three-person submarine called the Necker Nymph, which is available for $2,500 a day for guests of his private resort in the Caribbean.

    The Seattle Times 2011

  • Last year Branson unveiled a three-person submarine called the Necker Nymph, which is available for $2,500 a day for guests of his private resort in the Caribbean.

    KansasCity.com: Front Page 2011

  • Evagrius mentions a splendid building at Antioch called Nymphæum, remarkable

    A New System; or, an Analysis of Antient Mythology. Volume I. Jacob Bryant 1759

  • The Nymph is a rather unusual luxury lamp in the shape of an insect in its nymph life stage

    TREND HUNTER - The Latest Trends 2008

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