It occurred to Nils again, that unless the Nixy took pity on him and taught him that marvellous, airy strain he would never catch it.
The reason of this, his mother told him, according to the superstition of her people, was that the Nixy and the Hulder [3] and the gnomes favored him because he was a Sunday child.
Had not the Nixybestowed upon him her best gift already in permitting him to hear that exquisite ghost of a melody, that shadowy, impalpable strain, which had haunted him these many years?
It was evidently because he was yet far from being good enough that both Hulder andNixy eluded him.
After which crumb of ghostly consolation she proceeds to turn Nixy out of the house.
Illustration: The Miller Sees the Nixy of the Mill-pond] So the boy throve and grew big, and in the meantime all prospered with the miller, and in a few years he was richer than he had ever been before.
While he hesitated the nixy spoke, called him by his name, and asked him why he was so sad.
The miller thought she must mean one of his puppies or kittens, so promised the nixy at once what she asked, and returned to his mill full of hope.
Then the nixy spoke comforting words to him, and promised that she would make him richer and more prosperous than he had ever been in his life before, if he would give her in return the youngest thing in his house.
He realised at once that this could be none other than the nixy of the mill-pond, and in his terror he didn't know if he should fly away or remain where he was.
He had hardly dipped them in the pond when the nixy rose up in the water, and seizing him in her wet arms she dragged him down with her under the waves.
The nixy maidens readily complied: was not singing their most natural mode of expressing themselves?
THE NIXY LAKE In one of the wildest and most romantic parts of Germany, there is a high mountain which is as renowned for the strange stories that are told about it, as for its many natural peculiarities.
For though you are slender and though you are fair, Your treacherous waters, O nixy king's daughters, Can slay.
Do not be so cruel," said kind little Brigitte, who had blamed the nixy in the story.
Then the waters of the lake stirred and three waves arose, each one greater than the last, and in the third was the nixy king with a cruel expression on his face.
I am a night-bird, and your Rothenburg moonlight in addition to the Tauber-nixy will not allow me to rest just yet, I am sure.
Once more the three boys resumed their wild career, with the ominous words of the nixy ringing in their ears.
Presently Bergliot, in looking through the leafy branches of the willows at the surface of the water, saw, sitting on a tree trunk on the edge of the bank, what she thought was a nixy or water sprite.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "nixy" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
