wood-nymph

This is an about-face from her last fall's collection -- a Robin Hood-style romp through wood-nymph caps and feathers that seemed more fairy tale than reality.

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This appears to have been a common wood-nymph Cercyonis pegala.

The trouble with compact cameras AYDIN 2007

It is not merely a repetition of what was worth repeating in the bell, but partly the voice of the wood; the same trivial words and notes sung by a wood-nymph.

Walden 2004

Did it not suggest the sanctuary of some wood-nymph chanting never so faint a death psalm — a monotone which the idlest zephyr might still?

Tropic Days 2003

Dian, a wood-nymph, and a sweet girl playing upon a lute, habited according to a picture of Calypso by David.

Travels through the South of France and the Interior of Provinces of Provence and Languedoc in the Years 1807 and 1808 Lt-Col. Pinkney

After viewing the wonders of Nature, Esock Mayall was returning to the wigwam along the path of flowers, when that wood-nymph, the chief's daughter, appeared before him, gentle as the ring-dove.

The Forest King Wild Hunter of the Adaca Hervey Keyes

And Atirupa laughed joyfully, and he exclaimed: O Chamu, thou art certainly bewitched, and this wood-nymph has cast over thee a spell: turning thee into a very breeze of sandalwood from Malaya.

Bubbles of the Foam Unknown

Pholoe > (A beautiful wood-nymph, loved by Pan) 106.16

The Faerie Queene — Volume 01 Edmund Spenser

Well, Echo was a beautiful wood-nymph, fond of the woods and hills, where she devoted herself to woodland sports.

Dawn Harriet A. Adams

The figure of Echo is repeated later in "The Crowning of the Elect," in Orvieto, though there it has lost much of the idyllic charm of this wood-nymph.

Luca Signorelli Maud Cruttwell