Synonyms:
undine
Meaning: any of various female water spirits
Usage examples
Undine found Mrs. Van Degen putting on her cloak.
Undine's face burned as she turned to receive her cloak.
But though Undine thought silent people awkward she was not easily impressed by verbal fluency.
"--TO DINE WITH ME TOO?" That must be what she was going to say, and Undine's heart gave a bound.
Something in her tone made all Undine's perceptions bristle, and she strained her ears for the answer.
Though she would not for the world have owned it to her parents, Undine was disappointed in the Fairford dinner.
We'll dine together first--Peter's got a club dinner." They exchanged what seemed a smile of intelligence, and Undine heard the young man accept.
But she was more elaborately dressed and jewelled than the other ladies, and her elegance and her restlessness made her seem less alien to Undine.
Undine sat between Mr. Bowen and young Marvell, who struck her as very "sweet" (it was her word for friendliness), but even shyer than at the hotel dance.
She took particular pains to give Undine her due part in the performance; but the girl's expansive impulses were always balanced by odd reactions of mistrust, and to-night the latter prevailed.