mermaiden

There must have been at least three, for it is said that the mother tended the youngest well; at least one girl, for the mother sighed for the strange eyes of a little mermaiden.

Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 10 The Guide Charles Herbert Sylvester

They would see the distant islands where the chief of Colonsay is still mourned for on the still evenings by the hapless mermaiden, who sings her wild song across the sea.

Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Vol. 12, No. 32, November, 1873 Various

"'A merry lilt o 'moonlight for mermaiden revelry,'" quoted Kenneth softly from one of Walter's poems.

Rilla of Ingleside Lucy Maud 1921

The pretty, pale child, strange in sleep, like a little mermaiden lost on earth.

Dangerous Ages Rose Macaulay 1919

And a pale mermaiden will beckon us, with mist on her night-black hair;

The Watchman and Other Poems Lucy Maud 1916

She is worse than a mermaiden, she is a witch, a sorceress! '

Undine Friedrich de la Motte Fouqu��e 1918

Sinclair, who wanted Scott to write a poem on the adventures and intrigues of a Caithness mermaiden, and who proffered him, by way of inducement, "all the information I possess."

Americans and Others Agnes Repplier 1904

The second has married a mermaiden, a beautiful water-wife.

0 451. The Two Friends by Charles Godfrey Leland. Stedman, Edmund Clarence, ed. 1900. An American Anthology, 1787-1900 1900

She loved it as if she had been such a mermaiden as old poets fable.

Marjorie 1898

Probably he now forms one of the pieces of statuary so prized by the mermaiden, and stands decked with sea-blossoms, with gold heaped at his feet.

Cornwall's Wonderland Mabel Quiller-Couch 1895