| 单词 | dryad |
| 例句 | The dryad who would have perished with it told him to ask anything he desired and she would give it. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z The camp had started to look the way it should look: the meadows were green and lush; the white columns gleamed on the Greek buildings; dryads played happily in the woods. The Sea of Monsters 2006-04-01T00:00:00Z The satyrs and dryads worked to repair the damage to the woods. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z In the books she read, every stream might be a river god, every tree a dryad in disguise, every old woman a powerful fairy, every pebble an enchanted soul. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z Another enemy warrior shot flaming arrows into the trees, sending our archers and dryads into a panic. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z His servants shrank from the sacrilege when he ordered them to fell it; whereupon he seized an ax himself and attacked the mighty trunk around which the dryads used to hold their dances. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z Naiads and dryads tried to help, using nature magic songs to heal burns and poison. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z Could I put a face in my tree, like a dryad from Greek mythology? Speak 1999-10-01T00:00:00Z Last I’d heard he was in Central Park organizing the dryads, but nobody had seen or heard from him in two months. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z Returning to the tree he was blinded by the dryad, who was angry at the disregard of her words and the injury to her messenger. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z Hellhounds had appeared in all sorts of places, shadow-traveling inside our lines, and the dryads and satyrs had been fighting them off. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z A giant was ripping up trees in Bryant Park while dryads pelted him with nuts. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z “I was at the other end of the park. The dryads had this great idea of passing me through the trees to get me here. They don’t understand height very well.” The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z The dryads hastened to Ceres to tell her what had happened, and the goddess, deeply offended, told them she would punish the criminal in a way never known before. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z I sat at the top of Half-Blood Hill and watched the dryads come and go, singing to the dying pine tree. The Sea of Monsters 2006-04-01T00:00:00Z The knockers— hardy mountain dwellers accustomed to the cold—carried those who would have otherwise frozen: some of the dryads, or the winged sylphs, whose bodies were limp in the wintry air. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z I’d been hanging around dryads for years, but I never really talked to them much. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z I could smell the warm scent of the strawberry fields, and hear the laughter of the dryads as they chased owls through the forest. The Sea of Monsters 2006-04-01T00:00:00Z The grove was filled with satyrs and dryads and naiads up from the water—hundreds of them, anxious to hear what would happen. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z Even the dryads were armed with bows, and the satyrs trotted around with wooden cudgels and shields made of rough tree bark. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z There were rows of stone steps for the spectators— Tantalus, the satyrs, a few dryads, and all of the campers who weren’t participating. The Sea of Monsters 2006-04-01T00:00:00Z If you stray off the path a jean-clad dryad yells you back on the right course. Walking; Ark-ive; Cesario – review 2012-08-25T23:06:03Z Brilliantly rendered by Rebecca Benson, she shins up trees like a dryad, only to be told by her would-be boyfriend, "you smell like an infected bandage". Let the Right One In; The Amen Corner; Sweet Bird of Youth – review 2013-06-15T23:05:22Z Toreadors, Gypsies, dryads, kids pretending to be puppets, reams of classical dance and a standard story of two lovers outwitting the girl’s father — all in under three hours. Review: ‘Don Quixote’ Ballet Unites Lovers, Dryads and Toreadors 2015-05-15T04:00:00Z The children meet other creatures based on classical myth - centaurs, minotaurs, satyrs and dryads. From Harry Potter Latin to Hunger Games Rome: the classical jokes hiding in your favourite children's books 2015-08-19T04:00:00Z This dies away to make room for the grumbling of All-Mother Erda and her dryads, who bring charge against the fire giver. Franz Liszt 2012-05-22T15:16:50.923Z "Shall we," cried Sir William, heartily, "bid the nymphs and dryads farewell forever, lad, and save our learning for Roderick Random and a bowl of cider and the bitter nights of December?" Cardigan 2012-02-24T03:00:29.073Z The blossomed elder rests like white fog in the hollows, scenting all the country ways and promising elder-blossom wine, the dryad’s draught. Minstrel Weather 2012-01-24T03:00:25.640Z Folded in the twilight, these conquered flowerets are sad like forlorn little friends of dryads. The White Peacock 2012-01-14T03:00:21.627Z The "genius loci," the "dryad" or "hamadryad," is the counterpart of the cherubim guarding the ark and the mercyseat of the Jewish temple. Ancient Faiths And Modern A Dissertation upon Worships, Legends and Divinities 2011-11-24T03:00:37.917Z Or it might have been the dryads, those beautiful creatures of the wood the Greeks knew so much about. The Adventures of a Grain of Dust 2011-11-22T03:00:12.257Z Loudly laughing danced the dryads through the whirling leaves. Psyche 2011-11-15T03:00:18.293Z The bacchanal may have dreaded November, not the dryad. Minstrel Weather 2012-01-24T03:00:25.640Z I said to myself that the dryads were looking out for me from the wood's edge. The White Peacock 2012-01-14T03:00:21.627Z When trees grew old and fell, the dryads died, too. Peter and Polly in Winter 2011-10-26T02:00:31.240Z The hostess was as distinguished as her visitors; and never, before I went to Chenonceaux, did I associate naiads and dryads and poems of welcome with Catherine de'Medici. Atlantic Classics 2011-10-16T02:00:18.497Z “There she comes! there she comes!” shouted the mad dryads, and in handfuls they cast the leaves into the air, which whirled over the nymphs and fell down on the water. Psyche 2011-11-15T03:00:18.293Z The woods are quiet and the oak-tree soon The ruffled dryad in her trunk receives. Poems 2011-10-14T02:00:29.763Z A fair form Made of the garner'd relics of a tree, In which of old a dryad of the lea Did live and die. Love Letters of a Violinist and Other Poems 2011-10-08T02:00:23.627Z They believed that in some lived beings called dryads. Peter and Polly in Winter 2011-10-26T02:00:31.240Z The hill was high and thinly wooded; finely veiled in the mist and the faint sunshine it was the very spot for the dryad length and lightness of Christina's movements. "Persons Unknown" 2011-09-28T02:00:23.683Z "I also believe in fairies, nymphs, dryads, and angels," answered Gronski. Whirlpools A Novel of Modern Poland 2011-09-16T02:00:19.893Z Again, on page 33 appears the beautiful weird fantasy that I have named a dryad. William Blake A Study of His Life and Art Work 2011-09-13T02:00:35.943Z In the woods the dryades Hear the sounding pipes of Pan, Leave their temples of the trees And return to haunts of man; This the song they sweetly sing— Ave! His Lady of the Sonnets 2011-09-10T02:00:23.740Z If a tree was cut down, the lovely dryad who lived in it died. Peter and Polly in Winter 2011-10-26T02:00:31.240Z Oh, little dryad, you are the same as then, for all that you have grown so tall and beautiful! Only a Girl: or, A Physician for the Soul. 2011-07-13T02:00:14.230Z I remember also that whenever we discussed Boecklin's pictures, those fauns, nymphs, and dryads which he painted, I always regretted that all that did not exist in reality. Whirlpools A Novel of Modern Poland 2011-09-16T02:00:19.893Z Is it a dryad who lies outstretched on page 23 with the rising sap of her vegetable life stirring within her fibrous extremities, and awakening her to some dim half-painful consciousness. William Blake A Study of His Life and Art Work 2011-09-13T02:00:35.943Z You would have thought her, with her eyes of brown, Flushed cheeks and hazel hair, A dryad dreaming there. Kentucky Poems 2011-07-11T02:00:07.060Z No one knows exactly, Polly, because no one ever saw a dryad. Peter and Polly in Winter 2011-10-26T02:00:31.240Z This is delightful!" cried Johannes, much amused; "you are really, then, a dryad in disguise? Only a Girl: or, A Physician for the Soul. 2011-07-13T02:00:14.230Z You smiled when I pointed where A group of birches shivered in the green wood-shadow, Up to their knees in water, white and fair As dryads bathing. Eight Harvard Poets 2011-06-26T02:00:08.617Z The Princess, however, expressed an especial disgust to the awkwardly cut gods and goddesses in freestone, naiads and dryads, with which the park, in former days, was filled. The Devil's Elixir Vol. I (of 2) 2011-06-23T02:00:27.103Z Here are expanses of dryads, globe flowers, alpine firewood, and a wealth of others. Glacier National Park [Montana] 2011-06-21T02:00:29.217Z "Now I shall think of this story, when I see our fire burning a dryad's house," said Polly. Peter and Polly in Winter 2011-10-26T02:00:31.240Z Well, you pale little dryad, can you not speak? Only a Girl: or, A Physician for the Soul. 2011-07-13T02:00:14.230Z There, in the lustre of the full moon, the dryads can tell their tales, the water-sprites seize the golden harp, and believe that one can be blessed, at least for one single night, like this. The International Monthly, Volume 4, No. 1, August, 1851 2011-05-18T02:00:11.200Z Time and civilization have slain the dryads and sweet sylvan populace, as Herod slew the innocents. From the Easy Chair, series 3 2011-05-14T02:00:12.237Z It seemed no far cry to the storied Mediterranean and Pan and dryads and naiads, as Hezekiah bound her reeds to the music of couplets. The Siege of the Seven Suitors 2011-04-25T02:00:08.730Z I shall play that there are dryads in our trees, too. Peter and Polly in Winter 2011-10-26T02:00:31.240Z "Now I know what a dryad is," she said. Only a Girl: or, A Physician for the Soul. 2011-07-13T02:00:14.230Z Each particular tree or wood was the habitation of its own special dryad. The New Gresham Encyclopedia Volume 4, Part 1: Deposition to Eberswalde 2011-04-14T02:00:57.977Z Spring Hill is full of joy and dryads.' Non-combatants and Others 2011-04-11T02:00:11.563Z After a short scene with Mistress Page, Anne Page is heard as Fairy Queen summoning her wood nymphs, dryads, and goblins. Shakespeare and Music 2011-04-01T02:00:29.867Z The dryads and the Fauns begged one, at least, of the apples, but Pomona refused them all. Wonder Stories The Best Myths for Boys and Girls 2011-03-31T02:00:19.150Z That a dryad is nothing bad, for--don't you know?--he called me that. Only a Girl: or, A Physician for the Soul. 2011-07-13T02:00:14.230Z It would merely be necessary to shadow the censor until he met his first dryad. Pieces of Hate And Other Enthusiams 2011-03-28T02:00:24.120Z He sang of nymphs, of dryads with wondrous beauty. Memories of a Musical Life 2011-03-09T03:00:44.777Z Now I should like to be a young dryad up there in the wood to cradle myself in the topmost branches and be rocked the livelong night. The Awakening of Spring A Tragedy of Childhood 2011-02-13T03:00:19.567Z The dryads were those favored children of the gods who lived in the ancient woods and groves, each in her special tree. Wonder Stories The Best Myths for Boys and Girls 2011-03-31T02:00:19.150Z Water-sprites and dryads do not agree, I had to hear a while ago from your own mouth. 'Clear the Track' A Story of To-day 2011-02-09T03:00:49.283Z Such things are not conditions resultant from culture and refinement; they belong to the human organism, and so, by virtue of her being, the dryad must possess them. A Maid of the Kentucky Hills 2011-02-04T03:00:15.877Z He was horrified at the expenses which mythology involved; every wood-nymph, every dryad, did not cost less than a hundred francs a day. Dumas' Paris 2011-02-02T03:00:23.057Z A dryad whom clinging ivy holds while laughs The swarthy centaur pursuing; and a troop Of small Pans delicate and deformed. Eidola 2011-01-17T03:00:49.097Z Pomona was a dryad, and Venus had given her a wild apple tree to be her home. Wonder Stories The Best Myths for Boys and Girls 2011-03-31T02:00:19.150Z "Are you the lord and master in this enchanted cottage, or is it that little gray dryad cowering over yonder on that bench?" 'Clear the Track' A Story of To-day 2011-02-09T03:00:49.283Z Now, when I come to think about it, I realize that the dryad has been in my mind a very great deal during the last fortnight. A Maid of the Kentucky Hills 2011-02-04T03:00:15.877Z “All that it needs,” mused the man whimsically and aloud, “is the music of Pan’s pipes—and perhaps a small chorus of dryads.” The Law of Hemlock Mountain Each sombre gorge, where twisted roots clasp the moss-coated walls, discloses fabled gnomes and dryads. The Girl From Tim's Place “What, my little dryad!” laughed out Charley, brightening in an instant. By Birth a Lady The dryads peer from the thicket as she passes by, and the brown fauns smile strangely at her when she comes near them. Miscellaneous Aphorisms; The Soul of Man Two weeks have passed since I talked with the dryad in the glade. A Maid of the Kentucky Hills 2011-02-04T03:00:15.877Z Suddenly your eyes may see, Stepping softly from her tree, Slim of form and wet with dew, The brown dryad; lips the hue Of a berry bit into. A Voice on the Wind and Other Poems Naturally the artist turned at the unwonted sound, to catch an astonishing vision of two dismayed faces peeping like dryads from the greenery behind him. The Jolliest Term on Record A Story of School Life The walls were hung with studies of cocottes pretending to be naiads and dryads, horrible women posed in the silvanity of a photographer's studio. Sinister Street, vol. 2 It was the dryad that he sought to put on canvas. The Key to Yesterday In addition to their remarkable color, the dryad's eyes have very white lids which droop the least bit, perpetually shading the iris. A Maid of the Kentucky Hills 2011-02-04T03:00:15.877Z The nymphs and dryads ceased to haunt the sylvan solitudes. Valeria The Martyr of the Catacombs One dryad after another was despoiled of her shelter; one after another, the green tents of the bird and the wind were folded to make that sacred tabernacle—a home. The Day of His Youth And look at the nymphs and dryads which those hair-dressers present. The Truth About Tristrem Varick A Novel She was a dryad, and these were her woods. The Key to Yesterday The girl—or dryad, for I was beginning to doubt if she was real—paid no immediate heed to the squirrel, but went on droning her song and toiling patiently at the flowers. A Maid of the Kentucky Hills 2011-02-04T03:00:15.877Z The crystal dishes were filled with sweetmeats of all shapes—fountains of rosewater, windmills, dryads, soldiers on horseback, pleasure gardens, the planetary system, etc. The Children of Westminster Abbey Studies in English History Spellbound, she held in her hand a small head of a dryad, and modestly covered up with her handkerchief a tiny figure whose sweet nudity had startled her. Fairfax and His Pride In the first place, nymphs and dryads are as overdone as the assumption of Virgins and the loves of Leda. The Truth About Tristrem Varick A Novel "We will be nymphs and dryades, and all sorts of woodland things." Anne I began my chronicle to-night by saying it had been two weeks since I talked with the dryad in the glade. A Maid of the Kentucky Hills 2011-02-04T03:00:15.877Z One evening while I was stealthily watching the dryads of Boulogne, who gleamed amid the leaves like the moon rising above the horizon, I was arrested as a suspect, and put in prison. Anatole France The Revolt of the Angels I knew that a living being dwelt here, a dryad, as she is called, who is born with the tree and dies with it. Hans Andersen's Fairy Tales Second Series Some call me Elder Mother, others a dryad, but my real name is Memory. Hans Andersen's Fairy Tales First Series Just a dainty little mist fit for dryad robes lingered about. Helen Grant's Schooldays Cassandra waiting there might have been the dryad of the tree come out to worship in the evening light and grow beautiful. The Mountain Girl This is the fairest tarrying place I have seen this way, and fit for a ball-room of the dryads. Seeds of Pine He called her his dryad, she said, and the tree his tree, for the grand old oak with its gnarled trunk was just to his taste. Hans Andersen's Fairy Tales Second Series Elves an' dryads, he used to call 'em. The Boy With the U.S. Miners They are much more spirits of nature than the dryads and nereids and mermaids conceived by the Germans to express in symbol the natural forces. Artists Past and Present Random Studies She paused on tiptoe, a green dryad, one little hand, fair as a flower-petal, curled about her startled ear. Pemrose Lorry, Camp Fire Girl And paw-paw buds, whose dark Deep auburn blossoms shake On boughs,—as 'neath the bark A dryad's eyes awake,— Brown as a midnight lake. The Garden of Dreams Such a poem could only have been written by his listening virgin, his dreaming dryad. The Return of the Prodigal When the Flood came," the old man resumed, "the elves an' dryads what used to live in the coal-trees were swallowed up in the water. The Boy With the U.S. Miners Hope told a flattering tale: I put aside the leaves; and behold! in place of the expected dryads, a pair of all too solid ladies squatting over a clay pipe in the ungraceful ridi. The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 18 (of 25) Most of the paintings of that time were classical, including Greek temples, shepherds, nymphs, or dryads, and such trees as cedars and palms. Stories Pictures Tell Book Four The turtle-heads have none of the frail loveliness of the jewel-weeds that suggest half-visible dryads, but they have a stanch beauty of their own which I think makes them seem very comely. Old Plymouth Trails What had he to do while painting queens of comedy, or dryads of the opera, with the heart, tears, or divine sentiment? The International Monthly, Volume 5, No. 3, March, 1852 The elves, who were the men-spirits o' the forest, became knockers; the dryads, who were the women-spirits o' the trees, became the sprites o' the gas damps. The Boy With the U.S. Miners Some vague stir—the wind perhaps, or perhaps a light-footed dryad—flitted past and was gone. The Mystery of Witch-Face Mountain and Other Stories The odds were immensely in the dryads' favour; the pines and hardwoods might have laughed in every leaf at the puny power threatening their immemorial empire, and settled that vis inertiæ alone must overcome. Cedar Creek From the Shanty to the Settlement Most surprising of all, however, was a tinkling tattoo of musical notes as if a dryad within were tapping out woodland melodies on a xylophone. Old Plymouth Trails His brooks and trees are the abode of dryads and hamadryads—they live and talk. Alaska Days with John Muir Whose eye explored the dim arcade Impatient of the uncoming shade— Shy elf, or dryad pale and cold, Or mystic lingerer from of old: Vainly. The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 14 (of 25) And dryades whom the mists have struck With ague—A Sceptre of Despair! Betelguese A Trip Through Hell Did I know in those days of nymphs and dryads and fauns and all those happy soulless beings with which the desire of man's heart has animated the wilderness. The Passionate Friends At any rate, it was a most delightful musical entertainment of which I fancy myself the discoverer, and I hope it was the dryad. Old Plymouth Trails If she had ceased to be a dryad in a wood, it was to become the Armida of an enchanted garden. The Side Of The Angels A Novel The Spaniards were struck with admiration, believing that they beheld the dryads of the woods and the nymphs of the ancient fables. Due South or Cuba Past and Present To hazards that the oils Eschewed, haste dryades that were taught To dance. Betelguese A Trip Through Hell And when the band his "Rhymes and Roses," played, The dryads' voices made the woodlands ring! The Loom of Life While these things happen I think I can see the dryads quiver with delight and their jewels dance and flash, living creatures rather than gems. Old Plymouth Trails Two mornings later M. Dumaresque stood in the Caron reception room staring with some dissatisfaction across the breadth of green lawn where the dryad and faun statues held vases of vining and blooming things. The Bondwoman "Well, then, what do you say to fauns and dryads?" Great Men and Famous Women, Vol. 8 A series of pen and pencil sketches of the lives of more than 200 of the most prominent personages in History It was a dressing-room for a nymph of the woods, for a dryad, for Diana herself. The Innocent Adventuress The Ramapo Valley is a dream of loveliness all the way, with its lakes like wide-open blue eyes of dryads, and its laced silver ribbon of river. The Lightning Conductor Discovers America At noon, when the sun shines direct into the marshy glade, the dryads have gone back into their trees for a noonday nap and the jewel-weeds are but weeds after all, though beautiful ones. Old Plymouth Trails She fled away from the little, purple-red button-chrysanthemums like a frightened dryad, the bright yellow little chrysanthemums smelled so strong, her feet seemed to dither in a drunken dance. The Rainbow "Who in Paris cares for fauns and dryads?" Great Men and Famous Women, Vol. 8 A series of pen and pencil sketches of the lives of more than 200 of the most prominent personages in History Masters, from the barn, watched them and noted what a goodly couple, what a faun and dryad in clothes, they were. The Readjustment For the woods convene Their dryad forces when the nights are clear, And nymphs and fawns carouse upon the green. A Lover's Litanies In the November birch or maple the dryad herself stands revealed. Old Plymouth Trails Of all the ages’ gain, the ages’ loss, A wealth of wonders and so much away— When now hears one the woodland elves at play, Or angry dryads where tall tree-tops toss. The Rose-Jar World of Romance Sometimes the birches were shy dryads, fleeing before the wrath of some unknown god. Master of the Vineyard Could this nymph, this dryad be a product of the same planet that had given birth to Mary, Eliza, and Jane? The Wall Between The Pipes of Pan were calling, and up in the aisles of the hills moonbeams slyly sought and found bare-limbed dryads darting from the eagerness of wooing fauns. The Orchard of Tears Yet the dryad dwells within them as well, and on gentler days they show her in many phases of queenly womanhood. Old Plymouth Trails I knew that a living being dwelt here, a dryad as she is called, who is born with the tree and dies with it. Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen The tables were served by two hundred attendants, habited as dryads, wood deities, and fawns. Louis XIV. Makers of History Series Then I can have autographs on them, and mottoes, and when I cover myself up with it I shall really feel like a dryad.” The Associate Hermits Gone were the fairies from the meadows, gone the dryads from the woods. The Orchard of Tears The songs of the pines went with me, especially the tinkling xylophone dance music of the dryad, deep within the ancient trunk. Old Plymouth Trails He called her his dryad, she said, and the tree his tree; for the grand old oak, with its gnarled trunk, was just to his taste. Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen Hence we have genii, dryads, naiads, ghosts, angels, demons, etc. The New Avatar and The Destiny of the Soul The Findings of Natural Science Reduced to Practical Studies in Psychology What are the celestial gods, the nymphs, the fauns, the dryads, but the definite apperceptions of that haunting spirit which we think we see in the sky, the mountains, and the woods? The Sense of Beauty Being the Outlines of Aesthetic Theory "I will build an altar to your dryad, Don; for there is certainly something miraculous in your appearance at Hatton Towers." The Orchard of Tears No wonder the other creatures of the glade adore these slim green dryads of the swamp. Old Plymouth Trails There would have been one wild, tempestuous outbreak of indignation, and then my dryad maiden would have known my “foreknowledge” indeed. The Jessica Letters: An Editor's Romance He called her his dryad, she said, and the tree his tree. The Sand-Hills of Jutland Here and there were clumps of holly and yew, from the midst of which some fawn or dryad, some Hebe or Flora, in Italian marble, had long kept watch. Peak's Island A Romance of Buccaneer Days "Some kindly coy dryad of the woods has guided my footsteps to this blessed spot," declared Don. The Orchard of Tears No jeweller could make these: they are such as a fairy prince might, hang on the pale green breast of a dryad, a nuptial gift of surpassing value out of fairy coffers. Old Plymouth Trails I am no longer Jessica, the wind-souled dryad of the forest, but merely a woman in definition, facing a new world of pain and joy. The Jessica Letters: An Editor's Romance At the tree no fair dryad awaited him. The Book of Stories for the Story-teller She is the union of the pastoral and romantic with the classical and poetical, as if a dryad of the woods had turned shepherdess. Characteristics of Women Moral, Poetical, and Historical This riante dryad of the birches could be nothing to him. The Opened Shutters If he had been some sharper claimant come to fleece them, their visitor knew this young dryad’s eyes would have smiled at him just as gratefully. In Connection with the De Willoughby Claim And then with a cry of defiance and one swift bound, you tore yourself loose from me and ran like a frightened dryad deeper into the forest. The Jessica Letters: An Editor's Romance All his life he longed to see the dryad whom he had lost for ever. The Book of Stories for the Story-teller In other arms I have sighed divinely for my dryad; but I know she will prove rarer than my most adorable guesses. The Proud Prince "Doesn't she look like a dryad?" he said to his companion. The Opened Shutters This story is based upon the old mythical belief that the trees are inhabited by guardian deities known as dryads, or hamadryads. Children's Literature A Textbook of Sources for Teachers and Teacher-Training Classes And I wonder if you will recognise in the poor little bedraggled vixen that I now am, the gay lady dryad with whom you walked that day in the forest when we met the witch. The Jessica Letters: An Editor's Romance Do you not know that a dryad haunts this garden of Fernley? Fernley House With these she decorated her hair, and her young waist, and became a nymph-child, or an infant dryad, or whatever else was in closest sympathy with the antique wood. The Scarlet Letter Two of Pan's dryads turned loose for a holiday could not have sported more irrationally. When Grandmamma Was New The Story of a Virginia Childhood On the other hand, to protect a tree would bring some token of appreciation from the dryad. Children's Literature A Textbook of Sources for Teachers and Teacher-Training Classes No dryad queen ever floated through the leafy aisles of her forest with more grace than they displayed in every movement. Mizora: A Prophecy A MSS. Found Among the Private Papers of the Princess Vera Zarovitch There were places where she looked to see Pan piping on his reed, and dryads and nymphs coming out of the groves. A Little Girl of Long Ago Then she ran up and down the rocks, hid in the nooks, came out again in dryad fashion. A Little Girl in Old Quebec The ladies in their102 most summery gowns fluttered like white dryads from shade to shade, uttering bird-like pipings of surprise at the preparations made for their entertainment. Aladdin & Co. A Romance of Yankee Magic And Theology comes in with a glib explanation: the fairies, dryads, gnomes and gods made everything, and they can do with it all as they please. Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great Philosophers, Volume 8 And I shall never be so ill-advised as to seek it, for the wraith, like a mocking dryad, would flit from tree to tree, as beautiful and as elusive as the rainbow. Reminiscences of a South African Pioneer "Oh, no; but Arcady, you know, was the abode of sylvan queens—dryads and oreads and naiads," said the classic Jacques; "and you are like them." The Youth of Jefferson A Chronicle of College Scrapes at Williamsburg, in Virginia, A.D. 1764 He drew nearer and then he espied the dryad. A Little Girl in Old Quebec "Our little town," writes the correspondent who sends us the above cutting, "was warned by dryads and wombats." Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 150, March 15, 1916 "You can wade up there,"—the dryad who led him gestured to a sun-lit shallows above a tiny falls—"but I always cross here." Pygmalion's Spectacles The larches, like slender dryads, wear a feathery garb of tender green, and under the trees of the woods the primroses look up, like fallen stars. A Book of Myths She might have been a dryad returning to her tree, or as an artist in the group on the porch remarked, "a nymph in a Corot setting." Glory of Youth I think that in the trees, the dryads, the leaf-haunters invisible, so sad in childlessness, ceased their swinging to look upon the boy and girl so enviable in their innocence and happiness. Gilian The Dreamer His Fancy, His Love and Adventure As a result of this some unique and original Hallow E'en sprites, nymphs, dryads or witches foregathered in the big laundry, "cleared for action," Polly said, and two or three aroused little cries of admiration. Peggy Stewart at School As if in demonstration of her assertion she rose with a dryad lightness and stepped forward for inspection into a spot of moonlight, where she stood illuminated—and smiling. The Tyranny of Weakness It was a day of merry-making for nymphs and fauns and dryads, and all those who lived in the lonely solitudes of Phrygia came to listen to the music of the god who ruled them. A Book of Myths "It's all very well to say 'cheer up' when you're standing safe on the top," said the gloomy voice of the imprisoned dryad. For the Sake of the School And the dryads, no whit older as they swung among the trees, still all childless, must have laughed at this revelation of an age of dream. Gilian The Dreamer His Fancy, His Love and Adventure "It should have opened and imprisoned you, as a truant dryad," said he. Ernest Linwood or, The Inner Life of the Author At the appointed hour the pupils, wreathed and attired like nymphs and dryads, assemble in the halau, sweet with woodsy perfumes. Unwritten Literature of Hawaii The Sacred Songs of the Hula When all the world was young, and nymphs and fauns and dryads dwelt in the forests, there was no nymph more lovely and more gay than she whose name was Echo. A Book of Myths "I feel like a released Slave of the Lamp, or a freed dryad, or something fairy-taley or mythological," she declared. The Jolliest School of All A faint breath from a new point came through the trees, the dryads sighing for all this pitiful illusion. Gilian The Dreamer His Fancy, His Love and Adventure Her rich brown hair and her deep blue eye might have become a dryad; but her brow denoted intellect of a high order, and her mouth spoke inexorable resolution. Tancred Or, The New Crusade And Nora looked in the smiling face of the dryad, but said nothing. Childhood's Favorites and Fairy Stories The Young Folks Treasury, Volume 1 He sighs and weeps and calls upon dryads, hamadryads and oreads to pity his consuming passion. Some Forerunners of Italian Opera No wood creature, no skipping faun or startled dryad dancing under the moon could have belonged more utterly than she to the fragrant, mysterious world around her. While Caroline Was Growing There was an Italian garden, with marble benches, fawns and dryads, which was exactly like those depicted in Country Life: and here it was, and she was free of it! The Woman's Way I will pilot ahead with Colonel Burr, and you, Mr. Arlington, shall be taken care of by Miss Hale, who is as familiar as a dryad with these glades. A Dream of Empire Or, The House of Blennerhassett And now the dryad took Nora's hand and she found herself in a little boat, no bigger than a leaf, sailing across the pond but still beneath its surface. Childhood's Favorites and Fairy Stories The Young Folks Treasury, Volume 1 It appears that in trying to escape from the shepherd she was bitten by a deadly snake, for in the third scene a dryad tells the story of the tragedy to her sisters. Some Forerunners of Italian Opera The thick shade entreated secrecy; he stood still, and saw his dryad, a green apparition, kneeling at the foot of a beech tree, and looking down. The Best Short Stories of 1921 and the Yearbook of the American Short Story However this Broadway faun piped in vain: no white-footed dryad came stealing through the ferns to gaze, perhaps to dance to the concertina's plaintive melodies. Police!!! Somehow the boy of the fountain has always seemed to me to be alive, and to have in him some human quality, like a faun or a dryad. Contrary Mary So the dryad took her by the hand and they walked gaily into the beech-tree door, and the door shut behind them. Childhood's Favorites and Fairy Stories The Young Folks Treasury, Volume 1 At the conclusion of this chorus the dryads leave the stage. Some Forerunners of Italian Opera She had the look of a dryad at odds with the world, a whimsical and elfish intellectual. Dangerous Ages Their voices through the quiet Of haunted Catskill break; Or rouse those dreamy dryads, The nymphs of Echo Lake. Point Lace and Diamonds There were nymphs in the sea, dryads in the trees, kindly or destructive spirits in the air, household gods who watched over the home, and greater gods who managed the affairs of the world. Myths That Every Child Should Know A Selection Of The Classic Myths Of All Times For Young People So Nora took the pellet from the platter and thanked the gnome kindly and she ate it down, and no sooner had she swallowed it than she was no bigger than the dryad herself. Childhood's Favorites and Fairy Stories The Young Folks Treasury, Volume 1 "What luck, to find a dryad in the woods!" he cried. Mrs. Red Pepper At length we come to feel that the Greeks were not far wrong in thinking each tree had a dryad in it, animating it, protecting it against destruction, dying when the tree withered. The Art of Public Speaking Naiads, and dryads, and fauns, and the great god Pan everywhere; oh, to think we may be actually surrounded by these wonders of beauty, and yet unable to talk to any of them! Austin and His Friends But he was passionately grateful for the tense moment when Joan had seemed to turn to him for sympathy, a wild and lonely dryad of a girl in a mended gown. Kenny Yes, better than a fairy, a dryad, that is a fairy of the tree. Childhood's Favorites and Fairy Stories The Young Folks Treasury, Volume 1 It was nymphs, nymphs, dryads, bacchantes, running down from the heights into the plain…. A Reckless Character And Other Stories The sylphs and naiads and dryads had already gone out of business. T. De Witt Talmage As I Knew Him A shy, small, oval, half-wild face like that of a dryad's. Tramping on Life An Autobiographical Narrative An icy blast wailed up from the sea, and the rocking trees were like dryad specters in writhing agony. The Baronet's Bride Presently the voice seemed to come quite close to me, so near that it might have been the voice of a dryad singing to me out of the tree against which I was leaning. Famous Modern Ghost Stories And if Ena had been treacherous or hateful, then it would be a sort of poetical justice if she lost Raygan through making her brother lose his dryad. Winnie Childs The Shop Girl Or one might say it was a book of the primitive kind, written on the bark of trees by some shy dryad, unconcious translator into speech of the rustlings and whisperings of the woodland. Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 15, No. 86, February, 1875 Unity, red and beautiful, released herself, looked about her like a startled dryad, and made again for the catalpa. Lewis Rand The woods are peopled for her by fauns and dryads. My Friend Prospero She looked like a dryad fresh from the winter woods. Santa Claus's Partner She guessed that he had put aside his reserve and told her about the "dryad girl" because Ena had put him up to think that she—Eileen—had "begun to care." Winnie Childs The Shop Girl Man of a world that was corrupt enough, he was of course quietly assured that he could bend this woodland creature—half child, half dryad—to the form of his bidding. Audrey You're going altogether too hard—working like a Trojan all day and dancing like a dryad all night. Queed Then the Arab took a reed instrument, not unlike the pipe which Pan in the hills of Greece played to the dryads, and he piped a weird, monotonous tune. The Magician It was not without some insight that the ancient poets pictured dryads as inhabitants of the woods, and made the tinkling springs and rippling streams the abiding-places of their nymphs. Gordon Keith Superior as Miss Child was to the other dryads, she would surely keep up communication with them. Winnie Childs The Shop Girl She was of the woods, like a dryad. Audrey I followed the ripple Of the stream; I crept Where the waters wept - The floss in the foss Gurgling across The bosses of moss, Like a dryad's nipple In the mouth of Pan! Household Gods Jakob looked like a mountain dryad, his broad-brimmed beaver being completely covered with purple Michaelmas daisies, glowing amongst sheaves of silvery edelweiss, falling round in a soft gray woolen fringe. Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 12, No. 30, September, 1873 "I will pretend that you are a charming dryad, and I--what shall I be?" Gordon Keith Next morning the room of the mirrors was destitute of dryads. Winnie Childs The Shop Girl The poor nymph and the great god Kelly!" she said; "a new hero for the pantheon: a new dryad to weep over. The Common Law We have neither fay nor fairy, ghost nor bogle, satyr nor wood-nymph; our very forests disdain to shelter dryad or hamadryad. The Backwoods of Canada Being Letters From The Wife of an Emigrant Officer, Illustrative of the Domestic Economy of British America Long ago," he said, "you gave me an oak-leaf, dryad, and I have kept it still. Halcyone There were depicted groups of fauns and dryads, fondly reclining in summer bowers, and listening to the liquid piping of the reed; or the wanton satyrs, surprising some wood-nymph during her noontide slumber. Bracebridge Hall, or The Humorists She was like my idea of a dryad. Winnie Childs The Shop Girl Here are wooded slopes where a dryad might have her dwelling; yonder some ragged giant towers toward heaven, his scarred rocky shoulders capped with snow. The Light That Lures Her appearance had been so dim and fleeting that he could have fancied her the dryad of a dream, had it not been for his surroundings. The Wild Olive Then have compassion upon me, sweet dryad!" he pleaded, "who am but a pilgrim who cannot see his way. Halcyone Its chief charm to me is its obscurity; no curiosity-hunter or ordinary tourist has ever frightened away the dryads from its chestnut groves or the naiads from its fresh streams. The Cross of Berny For her the lost dryad was but a shadowy figure in the background, necessary to the picture, perhaps, yet not of poignant, personal interest. Winnie Childs The Shop Girl Also the fairy wand can do its work, the little dryad can come from the tree. The Art of the Moving Picture It was thus that the ancients believed that the dryads, hamadryads, satyrs, pans, nereids, watched over the fountains, forests, and seas, attributing to each force in nature a presiding divinity. De Orbe Novo, Volume 1 (of 2) The Eight Decades of Peter Martyr D'Anghera —By all the dryads of wood and wold! The Poets and Poetry of Cecil County, Maryland Here, in the lustre of the full moon, the dryads can tell their tales, the water-sprite seize the golden harp, and believe that one can be blessed, at least for one single night like this. Pictures of Sweden "Where did Lady Eileen see my dryad girl—in the dream?" he asked. Winnie Childs The Shop Girl After this the news of her death is reported to Orfeo--by a shepherd in the original, by a dryad in the revised version. Pastoral Poetry and Pastoral Drama A Literary Inquiry, with Special Reference to the Pre-Restoration Stage in England Nor have the dryads and the fauns been frighted away for good. Vanishing Roads and Other Essays There was a handsome mantel, set with terra-cotta tiles, on which fauns and satyrs, nymphs and dryads, disported themselves in idyllic abandon. The Marrow of Tradition The branches of the trees lash one another like penitential dryades. Pictures of Sweden He would not have known that there was hope—indeed, almost a certainty—of finding the lost dryad in one of New York's great department stores. Winnie Childs The Shop Girl It was young, elemental joy, every step of it; sexless, no Bacchante dance, but rather a paeon of ecstasy, such as a dryad might have danced in the woods. Bambi The ancient Italian tradition made it the home of fauns and dryads, wild woodland creatures, intermediate links between vegetable life and that of sentient and reasoning humanity. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 07, No. 43, May, 1861 Creator A silver stream is the Coln hereabouts, the abode of fairies and fawns, and nymphs and dryads. A Cotswold Village Instinctively did earlier man See fauns and dryads in the trees, And find in universal Pan The soul of Nature's mysteries. Poems They had been—sprawling is not a word to use in connection with dryads—yet certainly reclining, in easy chairs and on sofas, and had started up as the door opened to stare at him. Winnie Childs The Shop Girl There was silence, except for a faint mysterious stirring, as of dryads beginning to wake and dress for their night-flitting when a moonbeam should tap on their shut doors. The Port of Adventure The dryads peer from the thicket as she passes by, and the brown fauns smile strangely at her when she comes near them. Intentions Whose eye explored the dim arcade Impatient of the uncoming shade— Shy elf, or dryad pale and cold, Or mystic lingerer from of old: Vainly. Songs of Travel Was it with a dryad of the sycamores? The Conquest of Canaan As for the visions themselves, only one had spirit enough left in her to be able to laugh at being thought a dryad or a mystery. Winnie Childs The Shop Girl I'm a dryad living in an old pine, or a little brown wood-elf hiding under a crinkled leaf. Anne of Avonlea The town spoke in her well-cut gown and a few simple adornments, but the dryad still moved inside. Quest of the Golden Girl, a Romance Every night before I go to bed, I look out of my window and wonder if the dryad is really sitting here, combing her locks with the spring for a mirror. Anne of Green Gables With these she decorated her hair and her young waist, and became a nymph child, or an infant dryad, or whatever else was in closest sympathy with the antique wood. The Scarlet Letter She alone of the five would have known what "dryad" means. Winnie Childs The Shop Girl "And when the poor, foolish little dryad gets tired of the world and comes back to her tree HER heart will break," said Anne. Anne of Avonlea Neither fairies nor fauns, dryads nor nymphs of the forest pools, have really passed away from the world. Quest of the Golden Girl, a Romance "You know there is no such thing as a dryad," said Diana. Anne of Green Gables An ideal head, I presume," he went on; "a fanciful representation of one of the pagan goddesses—a Diana, a Flora, a naiad or dryad? Roderick Hudson "For heaven's sake, what are you giggling at?" snapped the longest, slimmest, most abnormal dryad, diaphanously draped in yellow, when she could gasp out an intelligible sentence after an exhausting bout of agony. Winnie Childs The Shop Girl "Yes; but if dryads are foolish they must take the consequences, just as if they were real people," said Paul gravely. Anne of Avonlea The little dryad long since fled away weeping,—fled away, said evil tongues, fled away to the town. Quest of the Golden Girl, a Romance As a result Diana had abstained from any further imitative flights of imagination and did not think it prudent to cultivate a spirit of belief even in harmless dryads. Anne of Green Gables "She is neither a naiad nor a dryad," said Roderick, "and her name is as good as yours or mine." Roderick Hudson "I was thinking of leopards," explained the fifth dryad. Winnie Childs The Shop Girl Grandma says the salt spray killed it; but I think the dryad belonging to it was a foolish dryad who wandered away to see the world and got lost. Anne of Avonlea The cherry-tree was dead, for its dryad had gone,—fled, said evil tongues, fled away to the town! Quest of the Golden Girl, a Romance Or was he an untaught heathen, and down this vista of entrancing loveliness did Pan come piping, and dryads, nymphs, and fairies dance for him? Freckles Into what beech or silvern birch, O friend Suspected ever of a dryad strain, Hast crept at last, delighting to regain Thy sylvan house? Ride to the Lady And Other Poems Miss Devereux and her attendant dryads turned their eyes to him. Winnie Childs The Shop Girl "You look like a real dryad under that birch tree," he said teasingly. Anne of Avonlea The face of the dryad smiling through the young grape leaves was that of a withered hag, and the leaves of the vine were dead and flapped on sapless stems! Quaint Courtships How the couching dryads seem To root themselves as in a dream, And the naiads, wan and whist, To melt into an evening mist! Georgian Poetry 1911-12 And, since Tmolus could not leave his home, to him went Pan and Apollo, each with his followers, oreads and dryads, fauns, satyrs, and centaurs. Old Greek Folk Stories Told Anew "Nothing," said the smallest dryad meekly, though she gurgled under her breath. Winnie Childs The Shop Girl Just to walk, sit, lie around out of doors, to loiter, gaze, watch with a heart fresh as a young dryad, following birds, playing hide-and-seek with the brook-these were her halcyon hours. Youth: Its Education, Regimen, and Hygiene It was the nymphs, nymphs, dryads, Bacchantes, hastening from the heights down to the plain…. Dream Tales and Prose Poems Was she salamander or sylph, naiad or undine, oread or dryad?—But then she had such a head, and they were all rather silly! There & Back On earth she delighted in the wild life of the chase, keeping holiday among the dryads, and hunting with all those nymphs that loved the boyish pastime. Old Greek Folk Stories Told Anew This would have seemed to settle the matter, and did for Lord Raygan, who sat down beside her, abandoning further thought of the dryads. Winnie Childs The Shop Girl Dian's faith I keep intact, And declare that thy dryads dance Still, and will, in thy green expanse! Poems Little is left of the adjoining monastery except some subterranean vaults and the gaping oven of the ruined bakery; all ferny, mossy, given up to the faun and the dryad. Two Summers in Guyenne No, but one of the nymphs of the Thames, or rather, for they are somewhat oozy hereabouts, a dryad of the Richmond woods, indeed as beautiful a person as ever I saw in my life. The Ladies A Shining Constellation of Wit and Beauty The very nymphs would gather about her loom, naiads from the water and dryads from the trees. Old Greek Folk Stories Told Anew A poor, drenched dryad, thousands of miles from her native woods. Winnie Childs The Shop Girl In the olden time, everything that happened some deity produced, some spirit, some devil, some hobgoblin, some dryad, some fairy, some spook, something except nature. Lectures of Col. R. G. Ingersoll, Volume I Including His Answers to the Clergy, His Oration at His Brother's Grave, Etc., Etc. There is a rather pretty legend—recalling the old Greek dream of dryads—about a willow-tree which grew in the garden of a samurai of Kyoto. Glimpses of Unfamiliar Japan Second Series Divine imaginings, like gods, come down to the groves of our Thessalies, and there, in the embrace of wild, dryad reminiscences, beget the beings that astonish the world. Redburn. His First Voyage Classical mythology, along with dryads and tree-nymphs of all sorts, furnishes us with a multitude of myths of the metamorphosis of human beings into trees, plants, and flowers. The Child and Childhood in Folk-Thought Studies of the Activities and Influences of the Child Among Primitive Peoples, Their Analogues and Survivals in the Civilization of To-Day Not a dryad of the true dryad family left, and this one is practically forgotten already. Winnie Childs The Shop Girl In dryad eyes beholding The dancing, leaping, touching hands and racing Rapturous moment of the arisen sun; And the first drop of day out of this cup of Favrile. Toward the Gulf It was covered with tiny heads, and figures of mermaids, dancing nymphs, and dryads. The Nest Builder Here and there the oaks assumed Satyr aspects; shadows gloomed, Hiding, of a dryad look; And the naiad-frantic brook, Crying, fled the solitude, Filled with terror of the wood, Or some faun-thing that pursued. Poems I have always thought it must be a wonderful thing to believe in the dryad. Memoirs of My Dead Life That was why he could not be certain whether he had seen five dryads or five times five. Winnie Childs The Shop Girl I never saw trees that so nearly conveyed the idea of being the visible prison of tortured dryads. Castilian Days Half hidden, the woman's perfect body, beautiful as that of a wood-nymph or a pagan dryad, roused atavistic passions in the engineer. Darkness and Dawn Why, it's the girl in brown, the one who started out of a tree like a dryad, and showed me the way Philip had gone, last night. The Wishing-Ring Man Perhaps if I had spoken more tenderly, displayed a more Christian spirit—all that paganism, that talk about nymphs and dryads and satyrs and fauns frightened her. Memoirs of My Dead Life "The dryad door," he apostrophized it romantically, keeping his balance by standing with his feet apart, as old men stand before a fire. Winnie Childs The Shop Girl Who knows but some dryad enclosed within them was conscious of my gratitude, and noted it down on the bark of her tree? Dreams, Waking Thoughts, and Incidents The trees get back the voices of their dryads, and the children fill the aisles with glancing movement and graceful sport. Venetian Life The dryads came suddenly through Mrs. Noxon's imported shrubs, puncturing them with rhythmic attitudes. We Can't Have Everything Beyond meadow and cornfield to right and left gloomed woods, remote and full of mystery, in whose enchanted twilight elves and fairies might have danced or slender dryads peeped and sported. Peregrine's Progress Then it came out that moddam was Lady Eileen O'Neill, and the four tallest dryads visibly brightened, not so much for the owner of the name as for her brother. Winnie Childs The Shop Girl The poets of the Augustan age would have celebrated such a meadow with the warmest raptures; they would have discovered a nymph in every flower, and detected a dryad under every tree. Dreams, Waking Thoughts, and Incidents It had the unearthly appearance that made the imaginative minds of the ancients people the silent woods with devils and dryads. The White Waterfall The dryads tried to lure them with gestures and dances. We Can't Have Everything Their lives seemed linked to the trees like those of fauns or dryads. Paul and Virginia from the French of J.B.H. de Saint Pierre "I began to think it must be a trick of dryads to wait themselves ashore without waiting for the clumsy old ship to dock." Winnie Childs The Shop Girl It’s hardly religious to expose her thus to temptation, in a cave on the banks of a river—it smacks of nymphs and dryads. The Reign of Greed Tread with respectful awe Windsor's green glades; where Denham, tuneful bard, Charmed once the listening dryads, with his song Sublimely sweet. The Poetical Works of Addison; Gay's Fables; and Somerville's Chase With Memoirs and Critical Dissertations, by the Rev. George Gilfillan Ah, surely, this is some sportsman,—"the hunter's call, to faun and dryad known." The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 02, No. 11, September, 1858 While, like the rest, the knight expects to hear Loud peals of thunder breaking on his ear, A dulcet symphony his sense invades, Of nymphs, or dryads, warbling through the shades. Travels in Morocco, Volume 2. "I was busy packing this morning," replied the alleged dryad, with a hard, undryadic expression on her "heart-shaped" face. Winnie Childs The Shop Girl Call, assemble the nymphs—hamadryad and dryad— the echoes who court From the rock, who the rushes inhabit, in ripples who swim and disport. The Vigil of Venus and Other Poems by "Q" They think you a dryad—the queen of all the dryads, with the most glorious eyes and hair and the most tempting lips in all the forest. The Rivet in Grandfather's Neck A Comedy of Limitations If there were a dryad or other such nimble creature on the street, she would come leaping as though Orpheus strummed a tune, but the dance is too fast for our languid northern feet. There's Pippins and Cheese to Come Springs no bed of wild blossom but limbs of dryad have pressed it. In Divers Tones He thought of dryads, because in pictures, beings called by that name were taller, slimmer, more graceful, more beautiful, and had longer legs than young females of mortal breed. Winnie Childs The Shop Girl The old Greek mythology is full of images of joy, of lightness, and vivacity; nymphs and fauns, dryads and hamadryads, and all sportive creations. Sunny Memories of Foreign Lands, Volume 2 She was a wood nymth, a dryad, a jewel, a flower, I could keep it up indefinitely. A Romance of Billy-Goat Hill It was her mother in a dress whose spring-like tint made her a sort of slim dryad. The Head of the House of Coombe Let all the woods be sought, Let every dryad, every gamesome faun10 Tell where they last beheld her snowy feet Tread the soft, mossy paths of the wild wood. Proserpine and Midas It would have been ungracious to refuse the offered introduction so well meant, but the fifth dryad was not looking forward to it with pleasurable sensations. Winnie Childs The Shop Girl Now as for him, he had actually beheld naiads and dryads, nixies and pixies, at play—at least he had practically been upon the point of seeing them. Flowing Gold No tale of fairy, no story of dryad, of Aladdin's lamp, or of winged sandal had ever carried magical meaning to his unimaginative literal mind, and he proceeds to disenchant the children. History of American Literature Look, now, at these fauns and dryads among the shrubs upon the stage, pausing in startled wonder at the first blast of music which proclaims the exit of the goddess from her temple.' Hypatia — or New Foes with an Old Face Between some hanging willow branches further down they were visible a moment, like dryad figures peering and flitting through the cataract of waving green. The Extra Day She was nice to him, too, in dryad land, when he paid his visits to the sisterhood, but she did not "belong on his deck." Winnie Childs The Shop Girl Beings something like dryads, who resent intrusion into their territory, on to their rock, past their promontory, or tree. Travels in West Africa He loves the nymphs of mythology, the dryads, naiads, and the fairies. History of American Literature Where the lover hears the flute and the nightingale, the hunter hears the horn and the hounds; one pictures to himself the nymphs and dryads, the other sees the horses, the huntsman, and the pack. Emile The wonderful flower, nodding to his touch, was no more perfect than this dryad whom he had surprised. The Ne'er-Do-Well The last dress she had worn on the first day of their acquaintance, the "Yielding Heart," had to a certain extent prophesied her attitude with the one man who knocked at the dryad door. Winnie Childs The Shop Girl When she reached the woods, where the white birches stood like shy dryads among the oaks, she heard once more the robin's flutelike call. Old Rose and Silver The little spot was as dreamy and witching and evasive as any retreat of fairies and dryads in ancient forests. Rainbow Valley I dreamed of nymphs and satyrs, of fauns and dryads, and of the young Endymion who, on just such another night, in just such another leafy bower, waited the coming of his goddess. The Broad Highway The place seems to have been fashioned as a dwelling for dryads and hamadryads, for nixies and pixies, and all the fabled spirits of forest and stream. Rainbow's End But the dryads were previously engaged by the prostrate Nadine—all except one. Winnie Childs The Shop Girl Indeed, but for their wings they might have been dryads. Angel Island Had they been two fabled denizens of the wood—she a nymph and he a dryad—they could not have been more closely linked with sky and earth. Tides of Barnegat So, like a dryad he moved from tree to tree, and like any fabulous creature was gone again. Don Rodriguez; chronicles of Shadow Valley It was no dryad, no distressed pagan clad maid we saw as we passed back into the room of the pool. The Metal Monster They were, to be sure, theoretically able to take exercise at certain hours, weather permitting; but weather did not permit, and four of the dryads, when free, sought distraction in lying down rather than walking. Winnie Childs The Shop Girl She was a child of the wilderness, a dryad among her kindred trees. Such Is Life It was dreadful to be thus dissevered from his dryad and sent howling back to a Barchester pandemonium just as the nectar and ambrosia were about to descend on the fields of asphodel. Barchester Towers Mr. Hamlin had vague ideas of dryads and fauns, but at that moment would have bet something on the chances of their survival. A Sappho of Green Springs Rushing into the forest, he ran, with others, examining who of the dryads seemed most beautiful. Quo Vadis: a narrative of the time of Nero Being "not a bit like the rest" of her sister dryads, she refrained from mentioning this habit to Mr. Rolls, whose prowling place was on higher decks. Winnie Childs The Shop Girl In such a spot as this, fauns and dryads surely lived; nymphs, white as the crab-apple blossom, retired within those trees; fauns, brown as the dead bracken, with pointed ears, lay in wait for them. Five Tales And then they took a stroll out among the trim parterres, and Mr. Arabin explained to Mrs. Bold the difference between a naiad and a dryad, and dilated on vases and the shapes of urns. Barchester Towers He was horrified at the expenses which mythology involved; not a wood nymph, nor a dryad, that cost less than a hundred francs a day! Ten Years Later But the drivers, through miles of dark squalid road, poured out their souls to the dryads and the saints, and Lucy poured out hers to her cousin. A Room with a View The lost dryad, needing money more than she needed a smart evening gown, might well have disposed of Ena's gift. Winnie Childs The Shop Girl Those dryads of the wood, that some Call the wild hyacinths, now are come, And hold their revels in a night Of emerald flecked with candle-light. The Home Book of Verse — Volume 3 A terraced walk occupied one side of the long parallelogram; at intervals and along the opposite bank, half shadowed by willows, tinted marble figures of tritons, fauns, and dryads arose half hidden in the reeds. Under the Redwoods Montalais required nothing to make her resemblance to a dryad as complete as possible. Ten Years Later It was dreadful to be thus dissevered from the dryad, and sent howling back to a Barchester pandemonium just as the nectar and ambrosia were about to descend on the fields of asphodel. Barchester Towers And yet Petro had—strangely enough it had seemed to him then—thought of Winifred and the mysterious "dryad door" on the Monarchic the moment he came into this place. Winnie Childs The Shop Girl It did not seem ungraceful to Hale, already attracted by her delicate profile, her large dark eyes, and a certain weird resemblance she had to some half-domesticated dryad. Snow-Bound at Eagle's For he was looking at the dryad who had come upon him out of the ferns three years before. The Vision Splendid Ye shall never know Summer again like this; Ye shall play no more with the Fauns, I wis, No more in the nymphs' and dryads' playtime Shall echo and answer kiss and kiss. Rhymes a la Mode And then they took a stroll out among the trim parterres, and Mr Arabin explained to Mrs Bold the difference between a naiad and a dryad, and dilated on vases and the shapes of urns. Barchester Towers Only in the possession of a dryad would it have retained this scent. Winnie Childs The Shop Girl He knew all about Jupiter—like David Copperfield’s Tom Jones, “a child’s Jupiter, an innocent creature”—all about every god, goddess, fawn, dryad, nymph—and he never forgot this useful information. Essays in Little Out of the ferns a dryad was coming toward him, lance straight, slender, buoyantly youthful in the light tread and in the poise of the golden head. The Vision Splendid Their springs and groves were peopled by their fancy with naiads and dryads, not with trolls and grotesque goblins. The Unseen World and Other Essays You can almost fancy it some dryad decked for her bridal, in maidenly day-dreaming too lovely to last. The Soul of the Far East Suddenly the scene struck him as very strange, almost unreal—Winifred Child, his lost dryad, found in his father's store, separated from him by a dignified barrier of oak and many other things invisible! Winnie Childs The Shop Girl The fairies, or "White Ladies," were not originally spirits of darkness, but were nearly akin to the swan-maidens, dawn-nymphs, and dryads, and though their wrath was to be dreaded, they were not malignant by nature. Myths and myth-makers: Old Tales and Superstitions Interpreted by Comparative Mythology On the high hill No ivory dryads play, Silver and still Sinks the sad autumn day. Charmides and Other Poems If the dryad had sold her dress, would the fresia fragrance haunt it still? Winnie Childs The Shop Girl As for dryads and nymphs, the beautiful creatures never inhabited Eastern Asia. The Soul of the Far East Unless luck were with him on his search, he might not reach the dryad for days. Winnie Childs The Shop Girl He trusted his instinct before everything, and though he thought that his lost dryad had been in this shut-up house with Jim Logan, he knew that she had come innocently. Winnie Childs The Shop Girl |
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