How To Use Dryad In A Sentence
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He slapped away a few dryads, but they still surrounded him.
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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
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He wasn't gloating," Aleneil said, then stopped as a dryad with beflowered, trailing willow-withies for hair asked what they would have.
Ill Met By Moonlight
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Anne paused by the Dryad's Bubble on her way back. She loved that old brook so.
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But I had expected, in simple ignorant faith, that the sacred mysteries of some marvellous cabala would be revealed, and not finding what I wanted (though indeed I discovered much that was worldly new to me), I returned to the good old ghost-haunted paths trodden by my ancestors, to dryads and elves and voices from the stars, and the _archaeus_ formed by the astral spirit (not the modern
Memoirs
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Alas, the taverns reputation declined over the years and by 1775 Garrick was referring to the frowsty bowers of the Dog and Duck as peopled with half-drunk fauns and dryads breaking lamps.
Bedlam
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O ye Napeas and Dryads! which do wontedly inhabit the thickets and groves, so may the nimble and lascivious satyrs, by whom (although in vain) you are beloved, never have power to interrupt your sweet rest, as you shall assist me to lament my disasters, or at least attend them, whilst I dolefully breathe them.
The Third Book. XI. Which Treats of the Strange Adventures That Happened to the Knight of the Mancha in Sierra Morena; and of the Penance He Did There, in Imitation of Beltenebros
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You know that dryad/mermaid of mine everyone loves? freyapax finished the shawl based on her.
Monday
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Any face might look out from that mist, any white feet of nymph or hamadryad pass among the glimmering aisles; in the dim, lilac-tinted distance it may be that Merlin still sleeps in his vaporous magic circle.
The Spring of Joy: A Little Book of Healing
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I suppose he was telling the truth when he said that he was attacked by dryads and was forced to abandon his friend,’ Kiya said thoughtfully.
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There was about Hazlitt's wooing of Rachel the pathos which might distinguish the love affair of a Baptist angel and the hamadryad daughter of a Babayaga.
Erik Dorn
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The dryads are passionate creatures, easily incited to anger about such things.
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So in some vague way Charlie felt he had to go and say that to the tree, as if his father lived hi it like a god damned hamadryad or something; he found it very embarrassing to remember the thing at all, but he remembered, he remembered.
Arcana Magi - c.1: Oryn Zentharis, Seeker of the Truth
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Was she salamander or sylph, naiad or undine, oread or dryad?
There & Back
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By this means, small poets have such a stock of able hard words lying by them, as dryades, hamadryades, aönides, fauni, nymphæ, sylvani, &c. that signify nothing at all; and such a world of pedantic terms of the same kind, as may serve to furnish all the new inventions and "thorough reformations" that can happen between this and
English Satires
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For a moment, she simply stares, as if I were a dryad materialized from the wood.
MOON PASSAGE
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Now, _Polyporus dryadeus_ and _P. igniarius_ are such fungi; their hyphæ excrete a ferment which completely destroys the starch grains in the cells of the medullary rays of the oak, a tree very apt to be attacked by these two parasites, though _P. igniarius_, at any rate, attacks many other dicotyledonous trees as well.
Scientific American Supplement, No. 643, April 28, 1888
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Therefore the world of nature is no longer seen as populated by capricious supernatural beings, by fates and furies, dryads and naiads, gods of war or goddesses of sex and fertility.
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Not only does it happen in poetry, but common people often go farther than the poet and begin believing in the hamadryad in the wood or the spirit of the waters.
Archive 2005-05-01
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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
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They were once the ancient guardians of the forests, along with dryads and sprites.
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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
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They enter a beautiful meadow, whereupon Don Quijote practices the part of a lunatic - loudly telling the gods, nymphs and dryads of the meadow of his scorned love for Dulcinea.
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A hamadryad gets her power from her tree, and a dryad gets her power from the whole forest.
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He will reawaken the dryads, who will become predatory while their wardens sleep.
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They were once the ancient guardians of the forests, along with dryads and sprites.
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Cyclops, Dryads/Nymphs or other nature spirits, Fey such as faeries, there are half-humans such as Centaurs, Harpies, Lamia and Naga to accompany your Mermaids, and any number of exotic creatures from other mythologies.
Yahoo! Answers: Latest Questions
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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
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The Spartan/dryad mix for your current WIP looks spectacular too.
Guest Author: Maree Anderson - Even Demons Get The Blues
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Mortals harmed the hamadryads by killing their trees.
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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
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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)
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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
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As dryads are generally spirits of oak trees, hamadryads exhibit more power over the forest.
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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
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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
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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
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Masquerading the satyrs and hamadryads as famous characters in the history of art is the primary burlesque idea of the Petite Commande.
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It turned out to be a dryad of some sort, looking exactly the way storybook fairies were portrayed.
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This hamadryad was destined in the outcome to dwindle into a village housewife, she would have taken a lively interest in the number of eggs the hens were laying, she would even have assured her children, precisely in the way her father spoke of John Hughes, that young people ordinarily have foolish fancies which their rational elders agree to disregard.
The Certain Hour
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As a druid/dryad it could be a nice and logical extention of your skills. gr,
Kederan XV Conquering Krimmhild
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From the start, I have recognized the dryads and spirits in the many trees I regularly pass and interact with.
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In Boucher, Olympians, dryads and shepherdesses are interchangeable.
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The dryads, the flower faeries and the nymphs dwelled in various trees and plants around the forest.
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A fat middle-aged dryad is a dreadful sight, I always think.
Try Anything Twice
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Among those attending were First Sea Lord Admiral Sir Alan West, retired First Sea Lord Admiral Jock Slater and several former commodores and captains of Dryad.
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For a moment, she simply stares, as if I were a dryad materialized from the wood.
MOON PASSAGE
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The dryads, the flower faeries and the nymphs dwelled in various trees and plants around the forest.
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She alone of the five would have known what "dryad" means.
Winnie Childs The Shop Girl
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But she was sure that the dryad was the key to passage, and that there was some kind of price that would persuade her.
Cube Route
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The Petite Commande, a suite of statues of satyrs and hamadryads, embodied the rustic character of the place.
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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
