Footnote 1: Gawayne is now in the castle of the Green Knight, who, divested of his elvish or supernatural character, appears to our knight merely as a bold one with a beaver-hued beard.
So far from its being always deemed wise to neglect or injure the changeling, it was not infrequently supposed to be necessary to take the greatest care of it, thereby and by other means to propitiate its elvish tribe.
All this might account for many details that we are told concerning the dwarfs, the Picts, the Finns, or by whatever other names the elvish race may have been known to Scots and Irishmen.
They seem an elvish group with thin bleached hair That lean out of their topmost fortress--look And listen, mountain men, to what we say, Hand under chin of each grave earthy face.
But there was no sound, except now and then the inexplicable rustle of a dead leaf, or anelvish gurgle of water from somewhere in the shadows along shore.
For a few moments his monstrous contortions went on, while in a glassy patch of white light, on the trunk above, clung the raccoon, gazing down upon him with liquid, elvish eyes.
It ought to mean appreciating what there is to appreciate in such a position; such as the quaint and elvishslope of the ceiling or the sublime aerial view of the opposite chimney-pots.
There is that elvish love of the full moon, as large and lucid as a Chinese lantern, hung in these tenuous branches.
He seemeth elvishby his countenance, For unto no wight doth he dalliance.
Amid the trunks of the trees grew elder shrubs, and snake-berries, and the elvish trifoliate plants of the purple and the painted trillium.
In common daylight his coat would have shown a warm fulvous hue, but in the elvish decolorizing rays of that half hidden moon he seemed to wear a sort of spectral gray.
It is even said that Gwynn himself is given to indulging in the same mischievous amusements as his elvish subjects.
And like all fairy, or elvish races, and like the Breton Morgans or water-spirits, they are given to stealing the children of mortals.
All that mattered was himself and Hazel; his passion, Hazel's freedom; his longing for husbandhood and fatherhood, her elvish incapacity for wifehood and motherhood.
The long rose-briars, set with pale coral buds, lookedelvish against the wintry scene.
Gabriel Harvey revoked his judgment on the Elvish Queen, and not without some regret for less ambitious days in the past, cheered on his friend in his noble enterprise.
Whan we been ther as we shul exercyse 750 Our elvish craft, we semen wonder wyse, Our termes been so clergial and so queynte.
He semeth elvish by his contenaunce, For un-to no wight dooth he daliaunce.
Then,' said Clotilde, with elvish cunning, 'do you doubt your ability to win me without a scandal?
Our nature becomes ingenious in devices, penetrative of the enemy, confidently citing its cause for being frankly elvishor worse.
The Provost of Notting Hill seemed to have fallen into a kind of trance; in his eyes was an elvish light.
It seemed odd to them that men had once worn so elvish an attire.
When ended was the dreadful roar, The elvish Dwarf was seen no more.
Jock, cocking his impudent, elvish head to the side.
But Edward Lear, with more subtle and placid effrontery, is always introducing scraps of his own elvish dialect into the middle of simple and rational statements, until we are almost stunned into admitting that we know what they mean.
But joy is a far more elusive and elvish matter, since it is our reason for existing, and a very feminine reason; it mingles with every breath we draw and every cup of tea we drink.
Her mother loved it for its peace, for its healing; but to the elvish child it had an incomparably deeper and more positive appeal.
