Submerged aquatic plant having narrow leaves and small flowers; of fresh or brackish water.
1Are you the guardian mermaid, or naiad or dryad, of this beach?
2Two others heard him-Wulfeand the naiad who guarded the spring.
3She was on the defensive, ready for headlong flight, like a naiad startled.
4Marry me, and I will make you the happiest naiad in the universe.
5The effect was of a cool, tall, distinctly superior naiad.
6Where else should I look for a naiad but in front of a water-splash?
7Many the time has she sprung from that projecting point to swim, naiad-like, underneath it.
8Willy Snyders called her a naiad, Ritter a moth.
9I might imagine myself "a nymph, a naiad, or a grace."
10Now, in the light of the patrolman's flare, he finally glimpsed a vision of my naiad.
11No naiad haunts the rushy margin of our lakes, or hallows with her presence our forest-rills.
12Surrounded by her followers, Lady Rosamond appeared as a naiad holding revel with her sylvan subjects.
13Having pocketed a queen for himself, he need not have encroached so keenly on my personal naiad.
14I confessed somewhat hoarsely that I had never been out on the town with a naiad before.
15She looked very pretty doing it, like a naiad or dryad scrubbing away at her forest toilet.
16Bold the difference between a naiad and a dryad, and dilated on vases and the shapes of urns.