Naiads

The Nixa of the Germans is one of those fascinating and lovely fays whom the ancients termed Naiads; and unless her pride is insulted or her jealousy awakened by an inconstant lover, her temper is generally mild and her actions beneficent.

Letters on Demonology and Witchcraft 1885

Next came the cave of the Nymphs called Naiads, with its curious shapes of stone, the work of the Nymphs to the old Greek eye, but named stalagmites and stalactites in modern speech.

Homer's Odyssey A Commentary Denton Jaques Snider 1883

The mariners, not willing to awake him, landed him softly, and laid him in a cave at the foot of an olive-tree, which made a shady recess in that narrow harbour, the haunt of almost none but the sea-nymphs, which are called Naiads; few ships before this Phaeacian vessel having put into that haven, by reason of the difficulty and narrowness of the entrance.

The Adventures of Ulysses Charles Lamb 1804

The Nixa of the Germans is one of those fascinating and lovely fays whom the ancients termed Naiads; and unless her pride is insulted or her jealousy awakened by an inconstant lover, her temper is generally mild and her actions beneficent.

Letters on Demonology and Witchcraft Walter Scott 1801

Naiads, as they belong to the elements of Air, Earth, Fire, or Water.

The Monastery 2008

The Dryads, Naiads, gods of gardens; those of shepherds, etc.

A Philosophical Dictionary 2007

Water-devils are those Naiads or water nymphs which have been heretofore conversant about waters and rivers.

Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

At its confluence with another stream, still arched by ohias, a man and two women appeared rising out of the water, like a vision of the elder world in the days of Fauns, and Naiads, and

The Hawaiian Archipelago Isabella Lucy 2004

I ordered the gardener to turn the rivulet into its old channel, to refresh the fainting Naiads, who had so long languished among mouldring roots, withered leaves, and dry pebbles — The shrubbery is condemned to extirpation; and the pleasure ground will be restored to its original use of corn-field and pasture —

The Expedition of Humphry Clinker 2004

Now Marina thought about all the times she'd been with the Undines and Naiads, the other elemental creatures of spring and stream-how they would appear and disappear, seeming to dissolve into the water only to appear elsewhere.

The Gates Of Sleep Lackey, Mercedes 2002