The river elves and fays float through mazy measures in fairy rings, or recline, 'neath starry fragrant blossoms, on rose-leaf couches.
And now they never meet in grove or green, By fountain clear, or spangled starlight sheen, But they do square, that all their elves for fear Creep into acorn cups and hide them there.
And now about the cauldron sing, Like elves and fairies in a ring, Enchanting all that you put in.
The question of the size conventionally attributed to the fairies is of importance, because it shows that a confusion existed between the fays of romance with the elves of folk-superstition.
But four years later, as we have seen,[85] Nashe confounds elves with fairies in deriving all alike from fauns and dryads.
But even in Shakespeare's day, it would be impossible to say that fairies were benevolent and elves malevolent; the two kinds and their respective characteristics were already confused.
At that time, so the heathen people believe, elves and goblins still moved about freely among the Northern nations.
Then the tiny elves took hold of each other's hands and danced round the shoes on the bench, till the shoemaker and his wife had hard work not to laugh aloud.
Promptly at midnight, the little naked elves came in.
Just as the clock struck twelve the door opened softly, and two tiny elves came dancing into the room, hopped on to the bench, and began to put the pieces together.
The shoemaker and his wife looked at each other, and said, "How can we thank the little elves who have made us happy and prosperous?
I seem'd to feel thy breath upon my cheek; I vainly searched for words I long'd to speak, But could not utter lest the sound thereof Should scare away the elves that wait on love.
In the various Aryan heavens these elvesand fairies delight and allure with music and song and dance the gods, and the souls of those who have attained to a state of bliss.
To warriors who overcome them they impart instruction in religious matters; those whom they conquer they carry away, like the Teutonic elves and dwarfs.
Fairies and elves (Apsaras and Gandharvas) dance and sing there to sweet music; feats of skill are performed by celestial battle heroes, auspicious rites are also practised.
The Ribhus and Twashtri were the artisans of nature, the spirits of growth, the genii of the seasons, the elves of earth and air.
The elves sat along the opposite fence and perched on the fence between some of the birds, too.
By all means,' said the fairy queen, and then she whispered to the elves her secret.
Before long the elves happened along by the old fence, and they said: "'What's up?
Using long-handled scoops, the Elves draw the bread and rolls from the oven and set them aside to cool.
A gasp and a shout rise from the Elves standing on their toes and stretching to see.
While the bread and rolls are cooling, the Princess tells the Elvesagain how the dough should be prepared, and how the oven made ready for baking.
The Princess's face breaks into a gentle smile as she says to us, 'I think these Elves will not hurt us.
The Elves place the loaves and rolls on baking trays and pans.
These Elves don't look fierce, as Trolls do, nor do they look like they would really want to fight with us, or with anyone.
The elves brought back the seeds and set them in their places.
The tiny underground elves gathered them and carried them away to the Earth-mother's warm nurseries, and tucked them into soft cradles till it should be time to return them to the garden for the spring growth.
In Norway the parings of nails are either burned or buried, lest the elves or the Finns should find them and make them into bullets wherewith to shoot the cattle.
To any one who considers justly of the matter, it will appear that the gods of the polytheists are no better than the elves and fairies of our ancestors, and merit as little as any pious worship and veneration.
On hills of delight Your home is, where gladness Softly lulls; The dark elves Ye despise, O deathless carousers!
And when we go to the woods in daffodil time we all three of us watch the buds coming out on every branch farthest out on the lowest boughs, which for Imps and Elves are also easiest to see.
The Imp and the Elf laugh at me when I tell them that all Ogres and Ogresses, all people who are grown up and can never be Imps and Elves again, love the Autumn and the Spring even better than the Summer herself.
Illustration: The Christmas elves] Just as the elves were put in a row on the table.
I will wait for a while in the garden, where it is far more charming to see the elves sipping the dew than you, gentlemen, drinking your punch.
She hurried down into the garden, to confide her griefs to the elves and fairies.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "elves" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
