Her face was flushed and her Nixie eyes were dancing to the mischief she contemplated.
"An Orkney Maid"
Amelia Edith Huddleston Barr
She has a kind of Nixie, tantalising, bewitching charm that would drive a crowd mad.
"A Singer from the Sea"
Amelia Edith Huddleston Barr
Thus the mysterious Nixie swam up and down the lake ten or twelve times, in the profoundest silence.
"The Children of the World"
Paul Heyse