Pronunciation of the English word mermaids.
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1. | On that very night when the fern blooms — I’m just retelling what has been compiled in fairy tales by local people — the mermaids, wood and house goblins, werewolves, nixes, and different kinds of ghosts and sorcerers gathered together. | |
2. | I have heard the mermaids singing, each to each. I do not think that they will sing to me. | |
3. | He talked to her about her eyes, how that they were beautiful dark-blue seas, and that thoughts and feelings floated like mermaids therein; and he spoke of her brow, how that it was a fair snowy mountain, and many other such like things he told her. | |
4. | Like all the other mermaids, she had no feet and instead of legs she had a fish's tail. | |
5. | The grandmother called little birds fish, or the mermaids would not have understood her, as they had never seen a bird. | |
6. | When the elder sisters rose up in this manner, arm-in-arm, in the evening, the youngest remained behind quite alone, looking after them as if she must weep, but mermaids have no tears and so they suffer all the more. | |
7. | At last she could not bear it any longer, so she told one of her sisters, and from her it soon spread to the others, but to no one else except to one or two other mermaids who only told their dearest friends. | |
8. | The mermaids lost Odysseus' ship. |