It seemed to me a happy tree, so fresh and fair and grand, as if its guardian Dryad would not suffer it to be defaced.
These are indeed the scenes of the Dryad and the Faun.
The Faun and the Dryad had deserted the earth, no sweet superstition, the faith of the grotto and the green hill, could stamp with a delicate and undying spell the labours of man.
It appears that in trying to escape from the shepherd she was bitten by a deadly snake, for in the third scene a dryad tells the story of the tragedy to her sisters.
In Padre Affo's edition it is at this point that a dryad tells Orpheus of Euridice's death.
Before long they came to the great oak tree in which the Dryad had lived, and at a distance they saw that beautiful creature herself coming toward them.
The moment Old Pipes saw his mother, he knew that the Dryad had been there; but, while he felt as happy as a king, he was too wise to say anything about her.
When I was old myself, I did not notice how very old my mother was; but now it shocks me to see how feeble her years have caused her to become; and I am looking for the Dryad to ask her to make my mother younger, as she made me.
As he did so, a large part of the side of the tree was pushed open, and a beautiful Dryad stepped quickly out.
Upon hearing these words the dwarf skipped quickly out, and the Dryadentered the tree and pulled the door shut after her.
This was, that a kiss from a Dryad made a person ten years younger.
I had already thought of making you still happier in this way, and several times I have waited about your cottage, hoping to meet your aged mother, but she never comes outside, and you know a Dryadcannot enter a house.
Old Pipes had never, to his knowledge, seen a Dryad tree, but he knew there were such trees on the hill-sides and the mountains, and that Dryads lived in them.
When the Dryad came up, Old Pipes lost no time in telling her about his mother, and what he wished her to do.
At first, theDryad answered nothing, but stood looking very sadly at Old Pipes.
Old Pipes then sat down on a stone, so that he should be nearer the ear of his small companion, and he told what the Dryad had done for him.
She had sometimes felt that way herself, and she forbade him ever to mention a Dryad to her again.
Your business with the Dryad is more important than mine; and you need not say anything about my having suggested your plan to you.
The Dryad sped away to the woods, shrugging her shoulders as she felt the cool evening wind.
And then, the Dryad by his side, he hurried to his cottage.
The roses can be smelled from the banks, and if you will speak to the mockingbirds we shall have music, dryad Audrey, brown maid of the woods!
My dryad in this enchanted wood is the most enticing spirit ever clothed in the graces of woman.
As the Dryad raised its head, with glittering eyes and forked tongue, Stoffles crouched with both front paws in the air, sparring as I had seen her do sometimes with a large moth.
Watching the Blue Dryad as it glided across the patch of sunlight streaming in from the open window, and knowing what it was, I confess to being as nearly frightened out of my wits as I ever hope to be.
I'd be certain to dream I was a dryad or a woodnymph then.
I'm a dryad living in an old pine, or a little brown wood-elf hiding under a crinkled leaf.
Grandma says the salt spray killed it; but I think the dryad belonging to it was a foolish dryad who wandered away to see the world and got lost.
You look like a real dryadunder that birch tree," he said teasingly.
And when the poor, foolish little dryad gets tired of the world and comes back to her tree HER heart will break," said Anne.
As successive sorrows cast their shadows on our hearts, as the mothers slipped away, as the Dryad was smitten down in her brightness, a star fallen from midsummer sky, Sigurd proved himself a very comforter.
Then we lowered the box, dropping upon it the white rosebuds that the Dryadhad sent and the white carnations that Jack's mistress had brought.
Njal was so determined not to be budged that the tender-hearted Dryad took his part and pleaded against our amateur efforts at discipline.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "dryad" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
