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单词 hamadryad
例句 hamadryad
“A hamadryad is a wood-nymph, also a poisonous snake in India, and an Abyssinian baboon,” Hermes points out. Books of The Times: John Banville?s ?Infinities? and ?Elegy for April? 2010-04-04T21:27:00Z
If the gentle hamadryad which, for aught I know, still dwelleth in every living tree, saw this gross affront, there were utterances which were nigh unto cursing. A Breeze from the Woods, 2nd Ed. 2012-04-23T02:00:29.820Z
"If there were fauns and hamadryads!" she said softly, turning to him to soothe his misery. 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
I have just sent people to Abyssinia to fetch me some big silver-gray lion-monkeys, sometimes called hamadryads. McClure's Magazine, Vol. 1, No. 1 2011-07-17T02:00:36.813Z
Farther on, the insatiable Siren exhausting expiring Glaucos; the god Pan standing upright and possessing an hamadryad with flying hair; the Sphinx raising her croup to the level of the horse Pegasos. Ancient Manners Also Known As Aphrodite 2011-06-13T02:00:23.863Z
I love trees as if I were suckled by a hamadryad. Romantic Spain A Record of Personal Experiences (Vol. I) 2010-12-27T03:00:17.990Z
"He called me 'Diana of the Mountains,'" she thought, "his 'hamadryad,' his 'huntress of the morn.'" The "Genius"
His brooks and trees are the abode of dryads and hamadryads—they live and talk. Alaska Days with John Muir
My friend killed all the hamadryads on the spot, and gave the boys some coppers, and we went on. The Soul of a People
But when they raised her from the floor they discovered the real cause of her death, for a second hamadryad, which had been concealed by her skirts, darted noiselessly under the bed. Where the Strange Trails Go Down Sulu, Borneo, Celebes, Bali, Java, Sumatra, Straits Settlements, Malay States, Siam, Cambodia, Annam, Cochin-China
Old oaks and beeches open wide their doors And hamadryads veiled in golden sheen Floating diaphanous o'er robes of green Walk with still feet the forest's russet floors. The Path of Dreams Poems
The trees seemed just as unconscious of any nymphs or hamadryads as they could be. The "Genius"
They were also bitten in large numbers by the venomous hamadryads which used to abound there, and from the poison of which some died. Prisoners Their Own Warders A Record of the Convict Prison at Singapore in the Straits Settlements Established 1825
However it may be, the Burman is not ready to kill the hamadryad. The Soul of a People
One afternoon, while she was out at tea with some friends, the Malay gardener brought to the house the carcass of a hamadryad which he had killed in the garden. Where the Strange Trails Go Down Sulu, Borneo, Celebes, Bali, Java, Sumatra, Straits Settlements, Malay States, Siam, Cambodia, Annam, Cochin-China
One never knows what hideous ogre or what exquisite hamadryad one may encounter. Visions and Revisions A Book of Literary Devotions
The red-coat they had heard of, and in a general way they knew what he signified; but a white woman to them was as fabulous a creature as a mermaid or a hamadryad. The Woman from Outside [on Swan River]
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
The dread hamadryad leered at him; poisonous toads and lizards scurried for cover. The Adventures of Piang the Moro Jungle Boy A Book for Young and Old
The hamadryad, as you probably know, is perhaps the deadliest of all Eastern reptiles. Where the Strange Trails Go Down Sulu, Borneo, Celebes, Bali, Java, Sumatra, Straits Settlements, Malay States, Siam, Cambodia, Annam, Cochin-China
Many monstrous tribes of enemies supervene; also a Forest of Maidens, kind but of hamadryad nature—"flower-women," as they have been poetically called. The Flourishing of Romance and the Rise of Allegory (Periods of European Literature, vol. II)
He sighs and weeps and calls upon dryads, hamadryads and oreads to pity his consuming passion. Some Forerunners of Italian Opera
The "Faërie Queene" is the typical work of the English renaissance; there hamadryads, satyrs, and river gods mingle unblushingly with knights, dragons, sorcerers, hermits, and personified vices and virtues. A History of English Romanticism in the Eighteenth Century
The old Japanese, like the old Greeks, had their flower-spirits and their hamadryads, concerning whom some charming stories are told. The Romance of the Milky Way And Other Studies & Stories
The bark opened not; the hamadryad had lost the spell. Audrey
Dermot patted the quivering trunk outstretched to smell the dead snake and then went forward and grasped the hamadryad's tail with both hands, striving to hold it still. The Elephant God
The judges were hamadryads and the defeated mortals were punished for their presumption. Some Forerunners of Italian Opera
She looked the very hamadryad of some blossoming tree, a sweet capricious daughter of the blameless earth. At a Winter's Fire
As the flower-spirits and hamadryads of the Far East are as yet little known to Western readers, the following Chinese story may be found interesting. The Romance of the Milky Way And Other Studies & Stories
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
From its size and the fact that it was attacking the elephant it could only be that most dreadful and almost legendary denizen of the forest, the hamadryad, or king-cobra. The Elephant God
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
These include one very formidable venomous snake, the Indian hamadryad, or giant cobra, and several non-poisonous snakes. Through the Brazilian Wilderness
He leaned over, and administered with his bare hand a vicious dig to a magnificent hamadryad, that lay coiled upon itself in its open basket. An Essence of the Dusk, 5th Edition
"Why, you'll look like a hamadryad, all in these wood browns!" A Summer in Leslie Goldthwaite's Life.
"A barb steeped in the venom of a hamadryad went in there!" The Insidious Dr. Fu Manchu
Shall three moons wane, And yet not found?—Ah, surely it was pain Of old, for mortal youth his heart to lend To any hamadryad! Ride to the Lady And Other Poems
A couple of years ago I was informed of a case where one of these king-snakes was put into an enclosure with an Indian snake- eating cobra or hamadryad of about the same size. Through the Brazilian Wilderness
His informant was a hamadryad, whom Jurgen encountered upon the outskirts of a forest overlooking the city from the west. Jurgen A Comedy of Justice
Practical men are not so scarce, one would think, and I am not sure that the tree was a gainer when the hamadryad flitted and left it nothing but ship-timber. Among My Books Second Series
To her companion she gleamed, as if a wood- thing, a hamadryad, had slipped out from the laurel-tree and come to dine with him in the dusk. Literary Love-Letters and Other Stories
The poet's hamadryad and naiad, what are they, indeed, but cobwebby fictions, which must be brushed away if ideal truth is to be revealed? The Poet's Poet : essays on the character and mission of the poet as interpreted in English verse of the last one hundred and fifty years
In entire consistence with botany, geology, science, or what not, he endues his very seas and woods with passion, more than the old hamadryads or tritons. The Writings of John Burroughs — Volume 05: Pepacton
At first Jurgen could not believe her, but presently Jurgen was convinced, through at least two of his senses, that what Chloris told him was true about hamadryads. Jurgen A Comedy of Justice
Walking through the woods he almost expects to catch glimpses of hamadryads peering from their trees, nymphs rising from the fountains, and startled fauns with shaggy skins and cloven feet scurrying away among the bushes. A History of English Literature
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"
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
Without removing his gaze, he leaned his gun carefully against a bush—firearms have an abominable effect upon hamadryads—and said: "I knew you were here all the time." The Ne'er-Do-Well
I am upon terms of some intimacy with a hamadryad just at present. Jurgen A Comedy of Justice
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
In the pale, elusive moonlight, and with that startled poise of figure, she might well have been the hamadryad at bay of one of her most famous dances. The Lamp of Fate
From these painful and humiliating retrospections, the emperor's thoughts wandered to the beautiful being, who, like a hamadryad, had blended her life with the tree of Polish liberty. Joseph II. and His Court
The nymphs of the wood and the spring, the hamadryads of the forests, the fauns and satyrs should reign once more in the woods before they placed the sceptre in the hands of winter. Frederick the Great and His Family
Into the uneventful life of a hamadryad, here in this uncultured forest, could not possibly have entered much pleasurable excitement, and it seemed only right to inject a little. Jurgen A Comedy of Justice
In the shadowed spots fauns and hamadryads wooed, unconscious of the gaze of mortal eyes. The Four Million
"Dear me, though; but that is investing the hamadryad with novel and terrible functions," exclaimed Dr. Middleton. The Egoist
The ladies and gentlemen had been transformed, therefore, into gods and goddesses, nymphs, and hamadryads, fauns, satyrs, and wood-spirits. Frederick the Great and His Family
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