These nymphs guarded streams and fountains of fresh water and, like the Naiad who speaks in the following verses, kept them sacred for Diana or some other divinity.
Immediately the Naiad showed the quality of her love by striking him blind.
A Naiad fell in love with the handsome shepherd and made him promise eternal fidelity to her, threatening him with blindness if he violated his vow.
Then the Naiad invokes Care, the goddess whose hand rests heavily upon monarchs, and implores her to grant the great King an hour's respite from the business of State and from his anxiety for his people.
I could not but compare it to some familiar spirit, guiding us through the earth, and I dabbled my fingers in its tepid water, which sang like a naiad as we progressed.
Moreover, from time to time the slopes were much greater, the naiad sang more loudly, and we began to dip downwards in earnest.
She was a child of the whole world, as the naiad is the child of the river, and the oread of the mountain.
Was she salamander or sylph, naiad or undine, oread or dryad?
On desperate seas long wont to roam, Thy hyacinth hair, thy classic face, Thy Naiad airs have brought me home To the glory that was Greece, And the grandeur that was Rome.
Hast thous not torn the Naiad from her flood, The Elfin from the green grass, and from me The summer dream beneath the tamarind tree?
Look deep and see thenaiad rise To meet the sunshine of your eyes.
What naiad of them can compare With you for good and dear and fair?
The naiad weeps your face to see, Your beauty is more rare than hers, And you are more beloved than she.
The play was the Naiad Queen, or Fairies under the Rhine, a meaningless piece, but the most brilliant and beautiful scenes I have ever seen.
Naiad Queen" or "Fairies Under the Rhine," drama, 283.
Hast thou not torn theNaiad from her flood, The Elfin from the green grass, and from me The summer dream beneath the tamarund tree?
For one hath heard the dryad's sighs Behind the covering bark; And one hath felt the satyr's eyes Gleam in the bosky dark; And one hath seen the naiad rise In waters all a-spark.
In this sweet hour of peace and love, I chanced from restless joy to move, When by my side a being stood Fairer than Naiad of the flood, Or her who ruled the forest scene In days of yore, the Huntress Queen.
But what interested me most, and what pleased Charley and Talbot even beyond the Naiad Queen herself, was the little violinist who came to the German Court, and played before Prince Rupert and his bride.
Day after day he came to the bank and begged the lovely naiad to come out of the water, and roam with him through the flowery meadows of earth.
They liked to believe that every stream had a naiad sporting in its waters, that dryads lived in the graceful trees, and that shrubs and flowers were the outward forms of spirits imprisoned there.
One day, while looking into a quiet stream, he thought he saw a lovely naiad in the water gazing up at him.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "naiad" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: deity; goddess; kelpie; mermaid; naiad; siren
