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Word: dryad (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1880-1880
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...last one is "Jessie," and Jessie appears to be a New Hampshire girl that he met when he was on that tramp last summer. He talks about her as if she were a dryad, or naiad, or something of the sort, and exhibits a cardinal flower that he says formed part of a garland with which he twined her brows. He wrote a poem about her, too, and has got it published in the Echo...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE LOVER'S FRIEND. | 2/20/1880 | See Source »

...Dryad to her trysting-place...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: MYTHOLOGY. | 2/6/1880 | See Source »

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