Female vampire

Usage examples of lamia.

But in Mundania creatures like the lamia, manticora, and dragon never evolved.

He thought of Lamia, and Hunter, and Anaesthesia, and even Door, but none of them were someones in the way that she meant.

Inoltre provava una strana agitazione fisica e mentale: den­tro di lui si rincorrevano sensazioni di sconfitta e tradimento che, associate al rischio di perdere la vita a causa di Lamia, al danno inflittogli da mister Vandemar e all'esperienza sulla passerella là in alto, lo facevano sentire un vero rottame.

Lamia rose above the curve of Hyperion's planetary limb, seeing the rudimentary channels of microwaved dataflow and tightbeamed commlink that passed for an embryonic datasphere there.

His priority was to get Lamia to sickbay and get her treated for alcohol poisoning, You'rejust as badfor her as she isforyou.

Lamia, the old Greek word for vampire, was the name of this establishment in which the electric guitars played the primitive Greek music, and the young mortal men danced with one another, hips churning with all the seductiveness of women, as the retsina flowed.

This creature before us is the effigy of the Lamiae, the female serpent which lives in the sea at the edge of Sha'angh'sei.

The coils writhed beneath him and he rode the Lamiae from out of the shallows of the Sha'angh'sei sea, past the creaming reefs, teeming with life, and out, away, away, on the great westerly currents, into the deep.

Succubi, fair but baneful, lamiae with the round soft bodies of women, came to tempt me in the drear vigils of the night.

First, a large pride of lamias had tried to overwhelm the party with their beguiling powers, but drow on guard for such magical tricks were no easy prey.

Tawny blurs crouched atop a high wall perhaps forty or fifty yards distant, a handful of lamias who carried heavy crossbows and watched carefully for opportunities to shoot into the fray, their beautiful faces twisted into evil grins.

Long, silent hours passed in the darkness, with no sign that the lamias had dis­covered their hiding place.

The lamias were careless of the lives of their slaves, and perhaps do not have enough left to do a proper job of searching the city for us.

These statues of mine -- these devils, vampires, lamias, satyrs -- were all done from life, or, at least from recent memory.

Then, behind her, where stood an array of carven Satans and lamias, the room seemed to recede, the walls and floors dissolved in a seething, unfathomable gulf, amid whose pestilential vapors the statues were mingled in momentary and loathsome ambiguity with the ravening faces, the hunger-contorted forms that swirled toward us from their ultra-dimensional limbo like a devilladen hurricane from Malebolge.