Hence it was the constant endeavour of the female spirits to captivate the admiration of men, and of the male gnomes, sylphs, salamanders, and undines to be beloved by a woman.
In the same way, to the Syrian fish deities, Dagon and Artergatis, must we look for the origin of our Undines and fish-maidens, and mermaidens.
It must, on the other hand, not be imagined that all Undines are as gentle and resigned as these three sisters.
The only thing was, that people remembered how the hems of their garments had frequently been wet, a sure sign by which Undines can be recognized.
Here they are disciplined with the utmost severity, as is abundantly proven by a great number of terrible stories, such as the account of the three Undines of Sinzheim, which the two brothers Grimm report in their great work.
Under the deceptive beauty of some of their apparitions, they might find some day the sylphs and fair undines of the Rosicrucians playing in the currents of psychic and odic force.
The Gnomes have no intercourse with theUndines or Salamanders, nor the Sylvestres with either.
The Sirens are merely a kind of monstrous fish, and are related to the Undines much as giant and dwarf monsters are related to the Sylvestres and Gnomes.
Sir Walter Scott also endowed the White Lady of Avenel with many of the attributes of the undines or water-sprites.
The air was peopled with sylphs, the water with undines or naiads, the bowels of the earth with gnomes, and the fire with salamanders.
His eager look follows the undines in their charming play, and, unable to reach them, he calls to them: He, He!
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "undines" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
