Sentences with word «nymph»

One of the first examples of Chinese landscape painting is the, unfortunately, now lost original of Nymph of the Luo River by Gu Kaizhi, the Sung dynasty version of which can be found in the Palace Museum in Beijing and Freer Gallery in Washington D.C..

1 I think that judgment is too severe, but certainly these images of nymphs in distress in picturesque landscapes seem to identify Eilshemius as a very wayward 18th - century French painter.

The wall painting Apollo and Daphne, After Bernini, 1991, depicts the Greek myth in which the wood nymph Daphne is transformed into a tree whilst fleeing from the god Apollo.

There's a charming tale in Greek mythology that perfectly illustrates these 3 traits, and it goes a little something like this: there once was a water nymph who was madly in love with the god of the sun, Apollo.

In light of our recent performances and the phrase «worst start to a season» has suddenly vanished from the websites and papers, the gunning faithful are once again puking rainbows, making out with mermaids, frolicking with nymphs and dancing with unicorns and all is well in the world.

The virus infection rate in nymph stage ticks from one farm owned by a patient was about one in five hundred over the study period.

Once fully engorged, the larvae fall off the host and molt into nymphs.

Translating to Sea Nymph from Greek, Nerissa is similar in pattern to Morgaine, a Wrapsody Breeze named for Kristi's eldest child.

Premise: Opening in hick - town Oklahoma during the»80s, this indie dramedy stars Juno Temple as a trailer - trash nymph who befriends a plump, closeted gay outcast (Jeremy Dozier).

All periodical species follow the same basic life cycle, living underground as nymphs for 13 or 17 years, and then emerging simultaneously in great numbers in the summer.

The ixodes tick nymph is passed to your dog by small mammal carriers where it feeds on your dog and transfers the borrelia organism to your dog.

Nymphs then find a suitable host, feed again and drop to the ground to molt into adults.

A fun fact about Les Néréides is that the name derives from Greek Mythology in which the Néréides were the sea nymph daughters of Nereus, the Old Man of the Sea.

Bite: A. americanum larvae and nymphs feed on birds and deer, even lizards and have been known to transmit STARI, ehrlichiosis, tularemia, and other Lyme - like diseases, but the CDC does not recognize the lone star as a transmitter of true Lyme.

The eggs hatch two weeks later producing the 6 legged nymph stage.

The middle figure on my painting of «Three Nymphs on a Bluff» was essentially done with yellow ochre, white and black.

But Lita had a vision of doing a Forest Nymph photoshoot where we would be in the woods wearing white and flower crowns.

«Hypertext Characters» is organized alongside the premiere of PSYCHO NYMPH EXILE by Porpentine Charity Heartscape, Neotenomie, and Sloane, copresented by Rhizome and the New Museum as part of First Look: New Art Online.

However, every new tidbit of the yarn discloses additional danger for the waif - like nymph, including dog - like creatures hiding in the grass waiting to attack.

Between this car and the tiny 356s, I'm starting to get the sense that bygone decades were populated by a race of delicate woodland nymphs.

Risk of human infection is greatest in late spring and summer, in the northeast, as nymphs become adults.

These days she resides in the fantasy realm of the Fairy Whisperer where she writes the magical poetry and stories that the fairy nymphs whisper to her in her dreams.

Book the Necker Nymph for a day of once - in - a-lifetime exploration of the underwater world.

I'm convinced it turns into Narnia (pre-White Witch) with little nymphs and animals dancing around.

Your words about nymphs and wizards make my heart sing.

What did it matter if the tick species were the same, if scapularis nymphs didn't bite people in the South?

Infected larvae release from the mice and grow into adolescent nymphs.

In the lab, researchers deprived 56 five - day - old nymphs of food, and offered 28 of them faeces from their siblings.

In their study, Mann and Heck show that in psyllid nymphs, Wolbachia and CLas reside within the same cells.

Natural bug repellent is especially useful (and proven effective) for repelling those tiny nymph ticks you can't see in a tick check.

The gentle tree nymph has a reputation for being slow and sleepy - but an unexpected toxin lies within its wings.

True to her nature, when she found she had not been invited to the wedding of King Peleus with the sea nymph Thetis, she hurled into the Olympic banqueting hall a single golden apple with two words on it, Toei kallistoei (to the fairest).

Cover Image: Porpentine Charity Heartscape, Neotenomie, and Sloane, PSYCHO NYMPH EXILE, 2016 (detail).

And why wouldn't you prefer wizardy over nymph - hood?

Maybe, on some plane of which we know nothing, the delicate nymph Corinthia greeted the final whistle in Munich with paroxysms of tears, while her wicked sister Pragmatia gyrated provocatively around her stricken form.

Painted - in, a bevy of nymphs frolic in a pastoral scene, and a surprising spectral appearance floats in the sky.

Lying on the floor dressed up as a wood nymph making a scene?

Although the adults of these species look like the crickets they are, the young nymphs closely resemble ants, most likely to confuse visual predators.

In a land submerged in a thousand years of fog, demons and nymphs do battle.

A medieval tome is filled with illustrations of medicinal plants, astrological diagrams, naked nymphs — and indecipherable script, says MacGregor Campbell

Overlooking Gozo's Ramla Bay beach is the legendary Calypso Cave, where Odysseus was imprisoned by a beautiful nymph in Homer's epic poem.

Titled Swallow, the sun - drenched, sensual film features water nymphs eating fruit beside a waterfall, a play on an epicurean exploration of Italy.