The little elfish black pony was in more frequent request than ever; for his mistress now went out at any hour that suited her whim, in any weather, chose the loneliest by-ways, and rode furiously.
She fancied she heard low, elfish laughter behind the scenes, and already the hiss of the critics seemed to sing in her reeling brain.
She was gazing up in the air, above all the traffic and roar of New York, with a happy smile on her elfish face.
There was no dark head with its straight, short black hair and quaint, elfish face pressed close against Madge's lovely auburn one.
She threw him an elfish kiss from her finger-tips and hastened into her airy improvised bedroom.
She stood in the middle of the room, pointing with an elfish finger to a large cage of white mice which stood in the window.
She had the elfish look of a little withered fairy godmother.
A queer elfishlittle creature, they say, as fond of solitude down here as the squire, and full of hobbies.
If my lord were an earthly knight, As he's an elfish grey, I wad na gie my ain true-love For nae lord that ye hae.
She came in with a skip which would have been entrancing in some elfish mignonne who could dance light-foot on spring flowers without crushing them.
And flashing round upon me with the solitary petal in her hand, she presented it with a low bow, in elfish mockery of the manner of the court exquisite.
Then even as I spoke I saw that my father had drawn himself up in bed, and that he too was staring at the strange, elfish figure.
Granny Tunks laughed in an elfish manner when she heard herself spoken of thus, and seemed very little put out.
Master's gone to the village, to see his ma," said the servant, who was small and elfish and somewhat brazen.
As she broke open the paper and looked down at the object in her hand, her face was a study of elfish triumph and unwilling admiration.
He longed sometimes to romp with her, as if she had been the child that she looked when her elfish smile stirred her face.
Her usual expression of elfishimpertinence was not there.
And this he did, with the utmost skill, and with a leaping thrill of tenderness which made itself felt by the little elfish creature in the clasp of his arms, and in the happy leaning of his dark cheek to hers, as she held him round the neck.
But he seemed to hear her elfish laugh for some time after.
However, he climbed down again to Louie, and found a dark elfish figure standing outside their den, and dancing with excitement.
This elfish dement in Stevenson is most apparent in his letters and stories.
The light from an upper window made a halo of his blazing head and lit up his small round face, faintly and absurdly grave, but with something elfish and eager lurking behind the gravity.
In the shadow in which he sat the chuckle sounded elfish and almost mocking.
It sat by itself, an elfish thing, with a touch of seriousness about it, its arms hugging its knees, and looked beyond them all and saw how much bigger and finer the joke was than they thought it.
She looked up at him with elfish mischief in her aggressively pretty face.
She could, he thought, be daring to the verge of coarseness, and he did not admire her pessimism, which was probably a pose; but there was a vein of elfish mischief in her that appealed to him.
These satanic children of Witches are elfish creatures, sometimes butterflies, sometimes bumble bees, sometimes caterpillars or worms.
To this day, in the vast forests of Germany and Russia, instead of uprooting old Firs, the foresters, remembering the Elfish superstition, always chop them down above the roots.
A harp accompaniment like rustling leaves plays around the melody, which is of eolian sweetness, until suddenly, like a fitful breeze, there comes an elfish measure all in the treble.
A pathetic wail from the flute offsets this elfish interlude; the gloom of the minor still hangs over all, and the persistent tremolo of the violins becomes oppressive as the perfume of magnolias.
She was a charming, younger model of her sister, except that where Jerry's eyes were brown, Peggy's were a somewhat elfish hazel.
It has such a piquant silliness of look that I laugh at it most heartily, and I have an almost elfish fun in smearing its downy feathers.
For an instant a look elfish and childlike came into her eyes, and she drew back from me, stood in the middle of the floor, and caught her skirts in her fingers.
Her elfish eyes turned from Marjorie to Ellen with an expression of concentrated hate.
Then, as she caught the French girl's elfish eyes fixed upon her, mocking incredulity in their depths, she rallied her doubting spirit and resolved to outplay even Mignon.
She had noticed that the pretty girl was always the center of a group and she had also noted that one small, black-haired girl with an elfish face, who wore the most exquisite clothes invariably walked at the tall girl's side.
Suddenly she divined, rather than saw, Mignon's elfish eyes fixed upon her.
Try and keep the elfish boy you were when you arrived.
I am riding," she answered with an elfish smile in which her eyes took no part.
As the father approached, the elfish little horrors, fetching a summerset aloft, as he had seen them do the time before, plumped themselves directly between him and his child, though vanishing the moment they touched the ground.
I should hardly have come a thousand miles out of my way, since set of sun, had it been merely to gratify Manitou-Echo in an elfish whim.
The girl with him was the odd and elfish little creature who had been hurt in Scarborough Square and whom he had helped bring in to Mrs. Mundy.
On one side of me the little, elfishcreature with her frightened eyes and short, curly hair seemed standing; on the other, the girl to whom Harrie was engaged.
Fran's keen eyes discovered him, and her face showed elfish mischief.
This sharpness of feature was in her verylaugh itself; while in that hair-encircled oval was the light of elfish mockery, but of no human joy.
Fran turned on the lights to their fullest extent, and looked about with an elfish smile.
Suddenly he had lost "Nobody's little girl", to be confronted by an elfish spirit of mischief.
Fran regarded her with that elfish smile which, to the secretary, had suggested a fox.
His attentive look found her different from the night of their meeting; she had lost her elfish smile and with it the romance of the unknown and unexpected.
He saw the old elfish smile now when he least wanted to see it, for it threatened the secretary, mocked the grave superintendent, and asserted the girl's right to like whom she pleased.
But it was when she spoke of blowing away with the dead leaves--looking so pathetic and so full of elfish witchery--that the impression was deepest.
The stone ax which on other occasions might be a laughing elfish face was now held ready for battle.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "elfish" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
