The girl was eighteen; her name was Estelle, and he called her "the hamadryad of St. Eynard.
He tried to reconstruct from the victim of three-and-sixty years the pink-slippered hamadryad who had haunted him all his life.
Hast thou not dragged Diana from her car, And driven the Hamadryad from the wood To seek for shelter in some happier star?
The poet's hamadryad and naiad, what are they, indeed, but cobwebby fictions, which must be brushed away if ideal truth is to be revealed?
Whether or not he got into the graces of this Hamadryad did not greatly matter, one way or the other: and in consequence Jurgen talked with such fluency, such apposite remarks and such tenderness as astounded him.
Since the life of a hamadryad is linked with the life of her tree, nobody can harm me so long as my tree lives: and if they cut down my tree I shall die, wherever I may happen to be.
I am upon terms of some intimacy with a hamadryadjust at present.
With the dawn Jurgen arose, and left this Hamadryad Chloris still asleep.
So Jurgen hid his staff where Chloris could not possibly see it; and he drew the Hamadryad close to him, and he laughed contentedly.
Then Jurgen dusted himself, and trudged home to an early supper with the Hamadryad who contented him.
The Hamadryad replied, "But I see only my own face.
And after that Jurgen and Chloris lived very pleasantly together, though Jurgen began to find hisHamadryad a trifle unperceptive, if not actually obtuse.
The Hamadryad told him that her name was Chloris, and that she always looked a fright with her hair arranged as it was to-day, and that he was a strangely impudent fellow.
But in a while Jurgen and the Hamadryad were speaking again, just as inconsequently, and the locusts were whirring just as obstinately.
He led the Hamadryad to a forest pool hard-by the oak-tree in which she resided.
It seems ridiculous that I should have done so," he went on apologetically, "but the bite of the hamadryad is absolutely fatal.
With the rare intelligence which makes the hamadryad such a favorite among collectors, it had circled the lake and was waiting for me.
The hamadryador king cobra," returned the professor.
It was held, therefore, to be an act of wanton cruelty to destroy or even mar a tree, lest the Hamadryad who inhabited it should be hurt and possibly killed.
It was the Hamadryad who had expected to die with her stricken tree, and was now so grateful to Rhoecus that she bade him ask of her any reward he wished.
Pindar speaks of a Hamadryad as "doomed to a term of existence coeval with the Oak.
He got up to meet her as she approached, a Hamadryad in white muslin, across the grass.
Perhaps, too, she had at last recognised herself in the Hamadryad of the poplar sapling; the slim Hamadryad whose movements were like the swaying of a young tree in the wind.
A very intelligent Hindu told Torrens how he had seen the way in which the Hamadryad procures the snakes that form its favourite food.
Cantor’s experiments show that the venom of the Hamadryad is extremely rapid in its action.
The Hindu in question happened to be on the flat roof of his house, when a young Hamadryad appeared quite close to him.
The Hamadryad is dreaded with good reason, for not only is it aggressive, and hurls itself boldly upon its adversary, but it also pursues him, a trait exhibited by no other poisonous snake.
A couple of years ago I was informed of a case where one of these king-snakes was put into an enclosure with an Indian snake- eating cobra or hamadryad of about the same size.
I mentioned, over the right ear; all in bright browns, in lovely harmony with the rest of the hamadryad costume.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "hamadryad" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
