9 examples of oreads in sentences

The lucky seer or poet who struck out the fancy would soon find imitators; and it would become, after a while, a common and popular superstition that Hamadryads haunted the hollow forest trees, Naiads the wells, and Oreads the lawns.

Naiads, Dryads, Oreads sigh, Dreaming of the time when they Danced in forest and in bay.

The representatives of our Lady, on the other hand, are such as the ancient Rhea,Latona, with her dark and starry veil,Tethys, the world-nurse,and the Artemis of the East, or Syrian Mother; to say nothing of Oreads, Dryads, and Nereids, that without number peopled the mountains, the forests, and the sea.

But for the cathedral-builder, Dryads and Hamadryads, Oreads, Fauns, and Naiads did not exist,the Oak of Dodona uttered no oracles.

About Emily Brontë there is no emerald and beryl and chrysoprase; there are no vine-leaves in her hair, and on her white Oread's feet there is no stain of purple vintage.

A nymph, he thought it wasa beautiful Oread from away up there among the silver peaks and purple canyonsor, perhaps, a lovely Dryad from among the oaks and pines.

I felt quite sure, though, that the nymph must be an Oread; because he said that she comes to gather colors from the roses, and that every morning and every evening she uses these colors to tint the highest peaks and crests of her mountainsmaking them so beautiful that mortals would always begin and end each day by looking up at them.

NYMPHS, in the Greek mythology maiden divinities of inferior rank, inhabiting mountains, groves, seas, fountains, rivers, valleys, grottoes, &c., under the several names of OCEANIDES (q. v.), NEREIDS (q. v.), NAIADS (q. v.), OREADS (q. v.), DRYADS (q. v.), &c.; they are distinguished by their grace and fascinating charms.

LIV How soon will all my lovely days be over, And I no more be found beneath the sun, Neither beside the many-murmuring sea, Nor where the plain-winds whisper to the reeds, Nor in the tall beech-woods among the hills 5 Where roam the bright-lipped Oreads, nor along The pasture-sides where berry-pickers stray

9 examples of  oreads  in sentences