Vietnam or Thailand ? Vote for the TOP Country of the Week !
Updated: June 9, 2025
He held her off at arms' length, and looked at her pridefully, but under his gaze her eyes fell, and her face flushed with a sudden diffidence and a new shyness of realization. She wore a calico dress, but at her throat was a soft little bow of ribbon. She was no longer the totally unself-conscious wood-nymph, though as natural and instinctive as in the other days.
"Now you're something like a wood-nymph," he laughed. "Only, wouldn't a real wood-nymph have an apron?" he asked, looking down at her dress. "Oh, it won't hurt the dress. You must begin now, or they'll be calling us." He was standing and gazing at her with a distracted enjoyment of her pose. "Oh yes, yes," he answered, coming to himself, and he set about his work.
After viewing the wonders of Nature, Esock Mayall was returning to the wigwam along the path of flowers, when that wood-nymph, the chief's daughter, appeared before him, gentle as the ring-dove. And the glory of youth clung around her, I felt her ambrosial breath on my cheek Like the scent and perfume of wild roses. She seemed to appear in all the beauty of innocence.
What if he joined the conspiracy to marry him to this weak-eyed, weak-headed wood-nymph, or backwoods nymph? If Ralph felt it a misfortune to be loved by Mirandy Means, he found himself almost equally unfortunate in having incurred the hatred of the meanest boy in school.
They all laughed at her picture of their "wood-nymph," as they had named Aline. "And Eugene talking anarchy, and washing the dishes, it sounds like a Weber and Field's farce," gurgled Conny. "He wrote Percy about lecturing in New York, wanted to come East. But Percy couldn't do anything for him. It isn't a combination to make a drawing-room impression."
Bright gleamed her gray eyes by the light of the flambeau; limpid, and deep, and earnest, they looked at Stern. Her wonderful hair, shaken out in bewildering masses over the striped, tawny savagery of the robe, made colorful contrasts, barbarous, seductive. Half hidden, the woman's perfect body, beautiful as that of a wood-nymph or a pagan dryad, roused atavistic passions in the engineer.
June stood against it like a wood-nymph just emerged from its sun-dappled trunk stood stretched to her full height, her hands behind her, her hair tossed, her throat tense under the dangling little cross, her face uplifted. At her feet, the play-house was scattered to pieces.
To-day, she would neither threaten nor inspire; she was only a smiling, joyous, simple peasant-girl, who had returned wild with joy to her native village, and whose rapture found expression in the gay and graceful mazes of the dance. She floated here and there, like a wood-nymph, smiling, happy, careless, wonderful to look upon in her loveliness and beauty, but more wonderful still in her art.
"As the creatures filed past, the dean saw the Wood-nymph lower her pine torch over one and another of them. "Every time this occurred the beasts of prey broke into loud, exultant roars particularly when it was lowered over a cow or some other large creature.
Although during her visit in New York Mrs. In writing of it to her husband she says: "Well, we have heard Jenny Lind, and the affair was a bewildering dream of sweetness and beauty. Her face and movements are full of poetry and feeling. She has the artless grace of a little child, the poetic effect of a wood-nymph, is airy, light, and graceful.
Word Of The Day
Others Looking