"Water sprite" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... d'Aqua,' she exists!" cried the naive Lina; "they say that she still walks on the banks, but disappears like a water sprite as soon ...
— Eight Hundred Leagues on the Amazon • Jules Verne
... he forgot everything but to watch for this water sprite. When the moon and stars came out, there it was just the same as in the sunshine, and so he lingered from day to night ...
— Classic Myths • Retold by Mary Catherine Judd
... on something out of the ordinary "he scented mischief" and believed himself unclean and befouled with dishonor, and fancied himself disgraced before God and man; and forthwith he would hie himself away to do penance at the shrine of the nearest water sprite. This superstition they brought from Asia, their ...
— Tales of Aztlan • George Hartmann
... gazing at the scene with all his eyes, yet thinking of the land of his birth, which was so different. Then he looked again at the sea, which was already turning to steel, and in the distance he saw something moving on the waves. As it came nearer he discovered it was a young Nixie, or water sprite, and she held a lyre in her hand, and sang a song which blended with the murmur of the waves and the notes of the bird. And the song put new life and courage into his heart, for it told him that if he would endure and wait the pleasure of the gods, joy would ...
— The Book of Romance • Various |
