kelpie

How To Use kelpie In A Sentence

• a kelpie is an imaginary water sprite, you know, and a pixy is a-- a-- why, a sort of make-believe fairy who lives in the water. Patty in Paris
• 'There are naiads, nymphs, nixes, kelpies - loreleis, selkies, sirens - though the last two prefer the sea. THE GREENSTONE GRAIL: THE SANGREAL TRILOGY ONE
• Suddenly out of the blue my 35 kg kelpie Jessica bolts from around the other side of the house nearly knocking me of my feet.
• This book was plenty dark with murder most foul and kelpies on the streetcorners, but even though many of the fae were not particularly good, many of them did not seem particularly amoral which is how I tend to think of the fae. Archive 2009-08-01
• It is unforgettable -- for the boy and for readers -- as are the magical reappearance of the berserker Thorgil from a burial by moss; new characters Pega, a slave girl from Jack's village, and the eager-to-marry-her Bugaboo (a hobgoblin king); kelpies; yarthkins; and elves (not the enchanted sprites one would expect but the fallen angels of legend). The Land of the Silver Apples by Nancy Farmer: Book summary
• Inspector Stephen Marais says he is looking for German shepherds, Rottweilers, Border collies, cocker spaniels, Labrador retrievers and kelpies to be trained in police work.
• She was a fine young chocolate working kelpie with plenty of personality and well-loved by our neighbours as well as ourselves.
• Sometimes the beast was a land animal, a lizard, etc, but the true _taniwha_ is a water kelpie. Day Symbols of the Maya Year Sixteenth Annual Report of the Bureau of American Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1894-1895, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1897, pages 199-266.
• Oh, you'll read about a very interesting take on gnomes, selkies, kelpies, vampires, succubi, and more but you won't find a kick-ass heroine living in a dark and gritty city. Review: Tempest Rising by Nicole Peeler
• In close work (pens, yards, and chutes) in Australian summer heat, the kelpie (another variety of collie) has more stamina than a Border Collie.