While the mermaidswere examining and admiring their room, Cap'n Bill went to the Peony Room to see what it was like, and found his quarters very cosy and interesting.
That's what all the other folks said when they dove after the mermaids an' got drownded.
Exactly," laughed the Queen, and the other mermaids joined in her merriment.
Moreover, King Anko was now with them, his big head keeping pace with the mermaids as they swam, and this mighty preserver had a distinct claim upon both Trot and Cap'n Bill.
She now noticed that the mermaids were clothed, too, and their exquisite gowns were the loveliest things the little girl had ever beheld.
It may be he was ashamed to run while the mermaids were watching, but if this was so he made a great mistake.
So the girl and the sailor allowed themselves to float downward until they rested their bodies on two of the couches nearest the throne, which were willingly vacated for them by the mermaids who had occupied them until then.
Arriving at one of the central archways the band of sea maidens separated, Princess Clia and Merla leading Trot and Cap'n Bill into the palace, while the other mermaids swam swiftly away to their own quarters.
The mermaids and the girl and sailorman kept huddled close together, for, although they might be walled in by the sea devils, their captors could not touch them because of the protecting magic circles.
Only the nobility and favorites of Queen Aquareine were invited to partake of this repast, for Clia explained that tables were set for the othermermaids in different parts of the numerous palaces.
But in spite of Zog, I've enjoyed my visit, and I shall always love the mermaids for being so good to me.
Days are past, and it comes not, and the mermaids may be drinking their Tea out of his China for ought I know; but let's hope not.
Young poets take great liberties with all female kind; not that mermaids are such very unlawful game for them, and there be songs even about worse and staler fish.
Then to me, - "I hope we have done with verses, and are not to be befooled by the lad's nonsense touching mermaids or worse creatures.
The swan-maiden in Wieland's case was one of the Valkyries, and indeed the two mermaids in the Nibelungenlied appear, from the part assigned to them in the poem, to be genuine Choosers of the Slain.
By this well knew Sir Hagan that their dark doom decreed, As those wild mermaids warn'd him, 'twas all in vain to shun.
III "'Twas told me by two mermaids this morn without disguise, That back should we come never; now hear what I advise.
Barometz" than the artificial mermaids so cleverly made by the Japanese have had to do with the origin of the belief in fish-tailed human beings and divinities.
The tale is entitled the Mermaid, and is founded upon the fancy of Paracelsus, that the mermaids though created without a soul may acquire one by a union with a human being.
Even then, I think the iceberg would melt at your presence, and in short order you would be down among the mermaids explaining to them that it was error to get out on the rocks to do their hair and sing to sailors.
So he consented to bring me up here to meet his friends, and I shall be pleasantly surprised if you young ladies don't turn into mermaids right before my eyes, as they do in the movies, and pop off that beach into the water.
Columbus was disappointed in the mermaids that he saw in the Caribbean.
The doubters claim that he was asleep when the mermaids appeared, and that he saw nothing but the sea cow, or manatee, which is neither tuneful nor pretty.
The home of the mermaids was at the bottom of the deep.
The Black Prince, in his will, mentions certain devices that he appears to have used as badges; among the rest we find "Mermaids of the Sea.
Captain Kittridge," she said at last, "do the mermaids toll any bells for people when they are drowned?
I've reason to think there's as many hopefully pious mermaids as there be folks," said the Captain.
Mermaids and sich is common in foreign parts, and they has funerals for drowned sailors.
The only idols I can see are in the museums along with the stuffed mermaids and two-headed serpents.
The mermen and mermaids endeavored to dissuade Rosond and his mother from attempting what must be a fruitless task.
The sound so alarmed the mermaids that they let go their hold, and fled away in terror, to hide themselves in their coral homes, while Saint Patrick, looking up, beheld the Giant frowning down defiance at him.
Between the mermaids on one side, and his master on the other, hauling away with all their might, poor Terence was very nearly torn in pieces.
Crossing the Red Sea, he was once more shipwrecked, when, had not a troop of mermaids carried him and his Squire, with their horses and furniture to the shore, they would all have been drowned.
I know there used to be children in the water, and mermaids too, and mermen.
Ballad: The Captain And The Mermaids I sing a legend of the sea, So hard-a-port upon your lee!
Thus mermaids twain did tell me, / who spake to me this morn, That back we come not hither.
You see the grandmother called little birds fish, or the mermaids would not have understood her, as they had never seen a bird.
In the middle of the room was a broad stream of running water, and on this the mermaids and mermen danced to their own beautiful singing.
At last she could not bear it any longer, so she told one of her sisters, and from her it soon spread to the others, but to no one else except to one or two other mermaids who only told their dearest friends.
In an island in the blue sea through which the ship of Odysseus would sail toward home, lived some beautiful mermaids called Sirens.
Against these mermaids Circe had warned Odysseus, and he repeated her warnings to his men.
They love to look down at the shallows, At the mermaids On the sandy shore; They love to look into morning's face Cool in the water.
The mermaids he makes out of fishes' tails and Indian children--robs the graveyards, you know.
No more would the merry partner gather the crowd on the beach; no more would the twelve young Wilners gambol like mermen and mermaids in the surf.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "mermaids" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
