nymphs

Young grasshoppers are sometimes called nymphs instead of larvæ.

The Insect Folk Margaret Warner Morley 1890

Depends on where you are. for the southeast where I am browns are still srtiking on certain nymphs. you might be able to get a few emergers in as well.

Fly type 2009

Depends on where you are. for the southeast where I am browns are still srtiking on certain nymphs. you might be able to get a few emergers in as well.

Fly type 2009

I like to think of an hour as the singular of Houri which the Mohammedans call nymphs of paradise, because they were, or are, beautiful-eyed.

Reveries of a Schoolmaster Francis B. Pearson

For that day they sat together and talked of all that had happened in the weary months gone by; but the next morning Ceres mounted her dragon-car for the first time in many, many days, and set forth to the fields to tend the new grain, while Proserpina ran to the seashore and with a happy shout called the nymphs, her old companions, from their seaweed beds.

Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 2 Charles Herbert Sylvester

I have often fancied that these local features may have given rise to the idea of nymphs and mermaids, especially at night, when, in the setting sun, the colors fade in vapory exhalations, and the waters seem haunted by the spirits of their own beauty -- pale, tremulous, waiting the vitalizing ray of the morning light.

Continental Monthly, Vol. 4, No 3, September 1863 Devoted to Literature and National Policy Various

It was evening when I returned again to the Temple of Venus The moon was like a sickle of silver, far away the waves fawned along the shore as though to call the nymphs from the woods; the sun was set; out of the east night was coming.

Florence and Northern Tuscany with Genoa With Sixteen Illustrations In Colour By William Parkinson And Sixteen Other Illustrations, Second Edition Edward Hutton 1922

The mock-coaxing of the nymphs might be a parody of the Venusberg scene in Tannhaeuser; and later on there occurs a passage that might be a parody on parts of

Richard Wagner Runciman, John F 1913

But the watchful Venus perceived the peril of her Lusians, and calling her nymphs together, beguiled the storm gods until the storm ceased.

National Epics Kate Milner Rabb 1901

The mock-coaxing of the nymphs might be a parody of the

Richard Wagner Composer of Operas John F. Runciman 1891