The presidency over this fountain is generally monopolized by a piscatory nymph who expects a grano for the trouble of filling you a glass or two.
Ballerina, the Nymph reclining, and this group of the Graces.
The luxurious contour of the form of this Nymph is beyond expression and reminded me of the description of Olympia: Le parti che solea coprir la stola Fur di tanta eccellenza, ch'anteporse A quante n'avea il mondo potean forse.
The next object that engaged my attention was a group representing a Nymphreclining on a couch semi-supine, and a Cupid at her feet.
After the first surprise of admiration her father's lodgers ceased to follow the abstracted nymph except with their eyes,--partly respecting her spiritual shyness, partly respecting the jealous supervision of the paternal Nott.
Twelve cups of tea (with grief I speak) Had now constrain'd the nymph to leak.
How could a nymph so chaste as Chloe, With constitution cold and snowy, Permit a brutish man to touch her?
And since the same resemblance held In gifts wherein you both excell'd, I fancied every nymph would run From you, as from Latona's son.
Such was the plat on which my Venus lay, But secret our love, more glorious the day, When all around was bright, and as the nymph as gay.
Hunting the buck, I found him sitting by a fountain's side, Of which he borrowed some to quench his thirst, And paid the nymph again as much in tears.
There is a young nymph here who seems to own the place, but I haven't had any chance to meet her socially.
I have got a lot of work to do before I get dressed to go to a dinner of that nymph I was telling you about.
And each is nymph or shepherdess designed; Some e'en are goddesses, that move below, From whom celestial bliss of course must flow.
O nymphmore bright Than moonshine night, Like kidlings blithe and merry!
Then what the nymph answered to this isn't said, The very next morn, to be sure, they were wed.
How happy will the shepherd be Who calls this nymphhis own!
Another nymph was getting into the boat with her back turned to the spectator, thus showing the glorious slope of her back and her voluminous white buttocks and thighs.
Number seven, labeled A Scene In The Rocky Mountains, represented a naked nymph seated on a rock, while in front of her stood her lover with her thigh resting on his arms.
Studniczka[1126] to identify a scene on a fragmentary cup found there with the figure of the nymph Kyrene, the patron goddess of that city, and thereby to establish definitely the origin of this class.
This nymph is dead, and my intention is to raise a flower from her precious remains, to be Queen of all the flowery race.
Asklepios), the legendary Greek god of medicine, the son of Apollo and the nymph Coronis.
Cretan coins represent the infant Zeus being suckled by the goat; other Greek coins exhibit him suspended from its teats or carried in the arms of a nymph (Ovid, Fasti, v.
Not only is the Prince in search of a nymph and a flower, not only does he wish to behold Orange, he wishes also to learn the language in which the Countess of Die sang lays of love with Raimbaud of Orange.
What answer does the lovelorn swain receive from the nymphhe adores?
And what of the hyacinth maid, Nymph of the Flowery Land?
With broad blight side beneath the broad bright sun, Like sea-nymph tired, on cushioned mosses sleeping.
Nevertheless, it was the very next year that he exhibited The Weeping Nymph, his magnificent nymph prostrate upon the ground, sobbing with her face in her hands and her whole body writhing with anguish.
With elbows leaning on the margin of a well, a nymph of resplendent beauty stands upright in an attitude of reverie.
Yes, Ned, they would speak of thenymph of the dragon fly, and the nymph of the May fly and the nymph of the cricket and the katydid, but they would speak of the larva of the corydalus.
Some books speak of the nymph of the grasshopper, and never of the larva of the grasshopper.
I only want you to know how the word nymph is used, so that when you see it in reading about insects you will know what it means.
Nymph of the roguish smile, which thousands seek Give me another, and another steak, A kingdom for another steak, but given By thy fair hands, that shame the snow of heaven.
There is a remarkable Cornish tale of a nymph or mermaiden, who thus vanished, leaving a daughter who loved to linger on the beach rather than sport with other children.
And there some kindlier whim of path would show Rocks that might echo to a piping Faun, Or hide a huntress nymphwith spear and bow.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "nymph" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
