How To Use dryad In A Sentence
- He slapped away a few dryads, but they still surrounded him.
- The Spartan/dryad mix for your current WIP looks spectacular too. Guest Author: Maree Anderson - Even Demons Get The Blues
- Mortals harmed the hamadryads by killing their trees.
- William Howell, who had been a boatswain at Trafalgar and a sergeant at Waterloo, turns up in the journals years later, aged 55, on the Dryad, described as "very much dissipated and suffered much from stricture and perineal tumours". Amputations, acid gargles and ammonia rubs: Royal Navy surgeons' 1793-1880 journals revealed
- Meursius is of opinion, that the Greeks borrowed their notion of these divinities from the Phœnicians, for _nympha_, in their language, signifying _soul_, the Greeks imagined that the souls of the ancient inhabitants of Greece had become Nymphs; particularly that the souls of those who had inhabited the woods were called Dryads; those who inhabited the mountains, Oreădes; those who dwelt on the sea-coasts, Roman Antiquities, and Ancient Mythology For Classical Schools (2nd ed)
- Across the gallery and down the stair -- it might have been the Golden Stair linking Near with Far -- came a score of exquisite women in all the glory of their youth, of perfect physical beauty and splendid strength and fullness of life; and the wonder was not their beauty more than a kind of dryad delicacy of that beauty, which was yet not frailty but a look of angelic strength. Romance Island
- As dryads are generally spirits of oak trees, hamadryads exhibit more power over the forest.
- Vuurdoorn is a druid/dryad and a ritualist with a fascination for silly humans without really caring for their well-being. Kederan XV Conquering Krimmhild
- 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
- Cocyti metuet tortosque Ixionis anguis immanemque rotam et non exsuperabile saxum. interea Dryadum siluas saltusque sequamur40 intactos, tua, Maecenas, haud mollia iussa. te sine nil altum mens incohat: en age segnis rumpe moras; uocat ingenti clamore Cithaeron. Exordium
