Previous to a drowning accident the nixies can be seen dancing on the surface of the water.
On fine sunny days the nixies may be seen sitting on the banks of rivers, or on the branches of trees, combing their long golden locks.
Now several centuries ago, before the time of railways and steamboats, a mighty king of the water-sprites lived in this lake with his three beautiful daughters, the famed nixies of the lake.
Surely they were the nixies of the magic pool, and his doom had fallen upon him.
Wonderful fairy creatures, nixies and gnomes and goblins arrived every minute as guests for the castle.
O nixies come back, or your proud hearts must break; The moonbeams are glancing, the fairies are dancing, Come back.
I have seen the nixies of the pool," thought the young man, who was the son of a rich peasant farmer in the village.
When they had left the room, a storm of conjecture burst forth; at last everyone agreed that they must be the nixies of the lake.
With a weird cry and their white arms raised over their heads, thenixies disappeared in the lake.
Songs were proposed; everyone joined in; the voices of the nixies were heard above all, clear and beautiful as a bell.
Clothilde scornfully; for the cruelty of the nixies coursed through her veins.
The nixies then brought him some food, and that also was green, and he ate of it.
And Oh had water-nixies for serving-maids, and they were all as green as rue.
She was silent a moment, and then added: "I do not know if it is right, but Father Christopher thinks it is no harm; I have always pitied the nixies and the kobolds.
I wish the nixies would avenge the contempt now shown them and the intended destruction of their home," said Gabrielle, in a tone which was meant to be playful, but which vibrated with real anger.
I see you still preserve your childish respect for the old hobgoblin stories, and are in right earnest afraid of the nixies and the phantom-folk.
I promised to give nix naught nothing to the giant who carried us over the whirlpools where the nixies and water-wraiths live.
I have heard that one night, on a distant shore, a band of water-nixies were dancing to gentle music, their golden sandals twinkling like stars.
Then the nixies stormed in fierce wrath, their willowy figures swaying to and fro as if blown by the wind.
The water-nixies soon forgot her, for they could not hold her memory in their little humming-bird hearts.
This ubiquitous Bagnigge was in all probability Big Nigge or Big Nicky-- Know you the Nixies gay and fair?
As the traditions of Fairyland give no hint for the assumption of any rationing or food-shortage it seems hardly necessary to consider either the pixies, the farisees, or the nixies as either half-starved or even impoverished.
In Scandinavia and Germany the nixies are known as the nisses, and they there correspond to the brownies of Scotland: according to Grimm the word nisse is "Nicls, Niclsen, i.
The child recognised the nixies and tried to flee.
They then remembered what the Duchess had told them of these beautiful and dangerous waters where the nixies dwell.
And while I search for the beautiful waters in which the nixies live you shall stay alone at home like a good girl.
But, Honey-Bee, do you not also love King Loc a little, who delivered me out of the glass dungeon in which the nixies held me captive far away from you?
But none must approach it for in it dwell the nixies who lure passers by into their crystal abodes.
No murmur can it be; The Nixies they are singing 'Neath the wave their melody!
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "nixies" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
