Sea-elf

"Sea-elf" in a Sentence (3 examples)

You may dare to face a howitzer's mouth, You may brave a wild beast's rage, And you'll know less dread with the first or last Than this old sea-elf - I'll wage; Yet he seem'd such a downright sociable ghost That I flinched not from his gage.

TRITON. n seaelf, half man and half fish.

When the moon is afloat, And the ocean at rest, The sea-elf goes forth To the town he loves best: Up from his cave, over the wave, With joy in his breast.

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