Mermaids

Examples

• We will see seals in Suderoe, and, doubtless, mermaids in Stromoe. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• We are aware that mermaids do not exist; why speak of them as if they did? Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• Mermaids and sharks! Jane Austen. Emma.
• I suppose you expect to see mermaids, Shirley? Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• Why, what can a man do when he takes to adoring one of you mermaids? George Eliot. Middlemarch.

Edited by Charlene