When The trembling grove confessed its fright, The wood-nymphs started at the sight; Ilissus backward urg'd his course, And rush'd indignant to his source.

One turned often to the other, held back a branch, or proffered such service as he might over rough places, for Betty Dalrymple's movements were no longer those of a lithe wood-nymph; she had never felt so weary before.

"Oh-h!" breathed Migwan in rapture, sinking down among the ferns and lilies that bordered the spring and dabbling her fingers in the limpid water, "I feel just like a wood-nymph, or a naiad, or

Love never calculates so nicely; love never fears the future; and yet you do love me, Lesbia,' he said, trying to fold her in his arms; but again she drew herself away from himthis time with a look almost of horrorand stood facing him, clinging to one of the pine trunks, like a scared wood-nymph.

Upon the huge rock at the centre was the Wood-nymph, who held in her hand a pine torch which burned in a big red flame.

"The bell cow led the procession all the way up to the Wood-nymph, who stood on the boulder at the top of the mountain.

"As the creatures filed past, the dean saw the Wood-nymph lower her pine torch over one and another of them.

Surely he had heard that the animals in Delsbo assembled on Black's Ridge every New Year's Eve, that the Wood-nymph might mark out which among the tame beasts would that year be prey for the wild beasts.

These came in the same order as the first and marched past the Wood-nymph, who stood there, stern and solemn, indicating animal after animal for death.

'They would risk their own lives rather than let their cattle wander amongst bears and wolves, to be doomed by the Wood-nymph!'

"'So it is your turn now to pass before the Wood-nymph to receive your sentence,' the dean said to the horse.

"The fine cattle from the parsonage farm emerged from the forest and marched to the Wood-nymph and the wild beasts.

The dean did not leave the saddle, but let the animal take him to the Wood-nymph.

The dean's cattle filed past the Wood-nymph in the same order as the others had done.

The Wood-nymph uttered a loud, shrill cry and let the torch drop from her hand.

So just as he had told the Queen Patmadhavrani, he told Queen Chimadevrani all the rites which he had seen the serpent-maidens from Patala and the wood-nymphs perform.

Almost actually she saw herself as she appeared to him, a wood-nymph, kneeling by the flowing water, vital, exquisite, strong, radiant in a cool flush, her uncovered hair gleaming in a thousand loosened waves.

Mathilde, now simply insatiable, pressed nearer to him and asked: "And what do you think of Mrs. Wayne?" He raised his eyes from the envelope, and answered with a certain absence of tone: "I thought she was an elderly wood-nymph.

I told you that Mrs. Wayne was an elderly wood-nymph; but I was wrong.

Robert Browning, The Return of the Druses. DRYAS or DRYAD, a wood-nymph, whose life was bound up with that of her tree (Greek, [Greek: dryas, dryados].)

Once, he dashed all the green of the wood-nymph's forest, with one stroke, into green water, intending to put in Undine, with a boat.

" "But," says Minnie, doubtfully, looking at the easel where the golden curls and heavenly eyes of an angel are obscured by the russet-brown of a beginning wood-nymph, "why don't you keep to one idea, Fred?"

The poem recounts how the wood-nymph Ambra, beloved of Lauro, is pursued by the river-god Ombrone, one of Arno's tributary divinities, and praying to Diana in her hour of need, is by her transformed into a rock.

As the dance went on and she grew more and more like an untamed wood-nymph, even the caballeros became vaguely uneasy, hotly as they admired the beautiful wild thing enchaining their gaze.

HAMADRYAD, a wood-nymph identified with a particular tree that was born with it and that died with it.