Vietnam or Thailand ? Vote for the TOP Country of the Week !
Updated: June 8, 2025
Now, as the three lay there, the lassie as flushed and damp as some water-nymph, Bobby panting and submitting to a petting, Tammy took the little dog's muzzle between his thin hands, parted the veil, and looked into the soft brown eyes. "Leak, Ailie, Bobby's wantin' somethin', an' is juist haudin' 'imsel'." It was true.
As she had been a water-nymph, so, now, she might have been some Druid maid dancing by an altar fire. The roughness of the ground did not annoy her her feet had not known dancing upon polished waxen wood; the lack of spectators did not deter her those whom she had learned to know and love, the mountains, trees, the squirrels, and birds, were there.
Since that may not be, I vow, should you be drowned, to weave such a pathetic story of your fate as shall call forth tears enough to drown you both anew. Do ye touch bottom, my young friends? Yes; they emerge like a water-nymph and a river-deity, and paddle hand in hand out of the depths of the dark pool.
"Beware, my friend, of crystal brook Or fountain, lest that hideous hook, Thy nose, thou chance to see; Narcissus' fate would then be thine, And self-detested thou would'st pine, As self-enamoured he." Clytie was a water-nymph and in love with Apollo, who made her no return. So she pined away, sitting all day long upon the cold ground, with her unbound tresses streaming over her shoulders.
"Fleur," came his voice, "don't be hard on a poor devil! I've been waiting hours." "For what?" "Come in my boat!" "Not I." "Why not?" "I'm not a water-nymph." "Haven't you ANY romance in you? Don't be modern, Fleur!" He appeared on the path within a yard of her. "Go away!" "Fleur, I love you. Fleur!" Fleur uttered a short laugh. "Come again," she said, "when I haven't got my wish."
But Narcissus himself was destined to fall in love with a shadow. For, leaning over the edge of a brook one day, he saw his own beautiful face looking up at him like a water-nymph. He leaned nearer, and the face rose towards him, but when he touched the surface it was gone in a hundred ripples.
That surely is the meaning of the old fairy-stories of men who have come upon the white woman in the woodland, and followed her, never to be seen again of their fellows, or of those who, like Hylas, have met the water-nymph by the lilied spring, and sunk with her down into the crystal deeps.
That was your condition when you returned home; but all the same, he said you looked like a water-nymph or a wood-nymph." "I think very little of him for such talk. There is nothing 'nymphy' about me. I should hate myself if there were. I am going to write, and ask Harry to get a furlough for a few weeks. I want to talk sensibly to some one.
"Fleur," came his voice, "don't be hard on a poor devil! I've been waiting hours." "For what?" "Come in my boat!" "Not I." "Why not?" "I'm not a water-nymph." "Haven't you any romance in you? Don't be modern, Fleur!" He appeared on the path within a yard of her. "Go away!" "Fleur, I love you. Fleur!" Fleur uttered a short laugh. "Come again," she said, "when I haven't got my wish."
And they are many tribes green, purple, brown, isabel-line; but all are one nation, and sacred to that fair god whom the Carian water-nymph loved not wisely but too well. And at last when autumn comes, won back from the cold god to his hot mother, they know love and wedlock, and die like all married things.
Word Of The Day
Others Looking