Nymphs have faded into fairies, and gods subsided into men.
And now the boy was holding out the wide-mouthed pitcher to the water, intent on dipping it; but the nymphs all clung to his hand, for love of the Argive lad had fluttered the soft hearts of all of them.
The people round Parnassus hold it sacred to the Corycian nymphs and to Pan.
On a Picture Painted by her self, representing two Nymphs of Diana's, one in a posture to Hunt, the other Batheing.
You are compassionate to poornymphs to-night, Charles.
Nymphs raved, Satyrs danced, and garlanded leopards jigged to one wild inspiration.
He made seven portions, whereof he dedicated one to the Nymphs and to Hermes, son of Maia, and of the rest he gave one portion to each of his table companions; but to honour his guest Ulysses he offered him the whole chine of the pig.
She fled into the monumental fireplace, where on the Angevin slate were engraven the loves of the nymphs and the metamorphoses of the gods.
The Older, which flourished during the rule of Cronus, was founded by the Titans, Oceanus and Tethys, from whom sprang three thousand rivers and ocean-nymphs unnumbered.
In modern painting, noteworthy are the Diana and her Nymphsof Rubens; Correggio's Diana (Fig.
The nymphs mourned for Narcissus, especially the water-nymphs; and when they smote their breasts, Echo smote hers also.
These nymphshad consequently sent a sea monster to ravage the coast.
This was Arachne, a maiden who had attained such skill in the arts of carding and spinning, of weaving and embroidery, that the Nymphs themselves would leave their groves and fountains to come and gaze upon her work.
Nymphs and Satyr; 195, The Judgment of Paris (Dresden) Gladstone, W.
These nymphs had the power, as has been already said, of charming by their song all who heard them, so that mariners were impelled to cast themselves into the sea to destruction.
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.
Then he said: Dear, did thy father never tell thee of the nymphs that have their homes beneath the water?
One of the nymphs as she went by turned and aimed her gilded javelin at his heart.
He refused to attend any of the rehearsals of the ballet, but one day a group of Diana and hernymphs passed him in the great gallery of the palace.
Their bath completed, the maidens emerged from the water on to the farther bank, paused for a moment to arrange their hair, like wood nymphs of the Golden Age, then wound their gorgeous kains about them and vanished amid the trees.
The enchanted Tritons left their noisy sport, And nymphs cerulian in their crystal court; Regardless of their frowns, or jealous smiles, While beauty's queen each eager eye beguiles.
Nymphs dance and sing to the piping of celestial elves, and merry laughter ever blends with the strains of alluring music.
To avenge her death, her companion nymphs sent this destruction to your bees.
Neptune drove his chariot up onto the land, dismounted, and blew a mighty blast on his trumpet to call the nymphs of the waters and the spirits of the winds to his aid.
He held a tuft of dripping water reeds in his hands through which the nymphs had allowed the goddess to escape.
Nymphs of the forest who had clustered about her to watch her work asked.
And the nymphs say that the two lived always happily together in a coral palace with a sea garden of anemones and green water plants all about it.
Nymphs played in the sea, rode on the backs of fishes or sat on the rocks and dried their long hair.
His mother heard these complaints as she sat in her palace at the bottom of the river with her attendant nymphs around her.
Not only the farmers and shepherds, the nymphs and fauns of Arcadian woods and fields were softened and drawn by his tunes, but the wild beasts as well laid by their fierceness and stood, entranced, at his strains.
The wood-nymphs and the water-nymphs came and twined the horn with vines and crimson leaves and the last bright flowers of the year.
You won't believe me because I am alone here in Greece, cared for by one of the nymphs and learning the lessons that all Greek boys do.
So Paris, all unknowing that he was a prince, had grown up among his flocks, as good to look upon as a young god and greatly beloved by all the hamadryads and nymphs of the woods and streams.
On her mother's side was the Pleiades family, daughters of old Atlas who held the earth on his shoulders and nymphs in the train of Diana, the huntress.
Under the silvery branches delicate as smoke-wreaths, and among the gnarled gray trunks, it seemed that at any moment a band of nymphs or dryads might pass, streaming away in fear from the noises of civilization.
Roses and jasmine mingled on the terrace-walls, citron-trees ingeniously grafted with red and white carnations stood in Faenza jars before the lemon-house, and marble nymphs and fauns peeped from thickets of flowering camellias.
Remember nearly all thenymphs have flat bodies, and dark backs.
Considering this fact, it is obvious that nymphswill take trout throughout the entire season.
Raise your landing net, and notice the numerous nymphs that have been washed from under the stones, and have attached themselves to your net.
My choice of the standard pattern wet flies, Feather Streamers, Bucktail Streamers, and nymphs would be a little more difficult.
Illustration: Page sized photograph of Fan Wings, Dry Flies, and Nymphs tied by the author.
All the various common nymphs can be faithfully copied, by learning to tie the various styles of those herein illustrated.
He always kept her for his Queen; but he cared for a great many Titanesses and nymphs much more than he did for her, and married more of them than anybody can reckon, one after another.
He therefore diligently asked everybody he met where the gardens were to be found, and, among others, some nymphs whom he met on the banks of the river Po, while he was passing through Italy.
O}reads were nymphs who lived upon hills and mountains.
The nymphs were rather shy, and Echo was the very shyest of them all.
And then Hercules found out what had made the nymphs laugh so.
Naiads were nymphs belonging to brooks and rivers.
I suppose he was afraid of Apollo's loving her for a time, and then leaving her to be miserable and unhappy, as happened to many nymphs and princesses in those days besides Clytie.
The nymphs were a sort of fairies--some of them waited upon the goddesses; some of them lived in rivers, brooks, and trees.
Which of the nymphs have you come to meet here in these woods all alone?
She goes hunting all night among the hills and woods, attended by the Nymphs and Oreads, of whom she is queen.
Here eloquence has fixed her seat, The nymphs here learn by heart In mode and figure still to speak, By modern rules of art.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "nymphs" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
