Do not misjudge them; remember that when one is so careless as to let Fancy and faeries into a book she is forced to let the stepmothers be unkind and the giants cruel.
He shouted it so loud that the baby faerieswoke up and asked what he was going to do, and gathered about him to listen the better.
And who knows but the faeries may have come and stolen them all away?
An' when the faeries tried it it was so pretty, an' they was so pleased, they took the hump off him.
Tis the place the faeries live in, an' 'tis in Irelan'.
I judge this must have been the buchailin buidhe or benweed, which the faeries bewitch and ride the same as a witch mounts her broomstick.
Away and away must have danced pairs of little feet that had never danced before, and pairs of old feet that had long ago forgotten how; and millions of faery feet, for no one can dance half as joyously as when faeries dance with them.
They always come May Eve to the lonely of heart; and even a hospital might have faeries once in a generation.
If the faeries like it, and think it good enough to send down to the children, they will have it all learned by heart and will sing it back to you in a minute.
The pious man comfortably lit his pipe and said: "You will find nofaeries mentioned in the catechism, my friend.
All that is a matter of course to anyone who has ever, in his youth, had dealings with faeries of Thea's stamp.
Faeries and elves and ideas and the devil knows what--that's all played out.
Faeries mind" seems to indicate that Spenser really does confuse here the Redcross Knight with the hero of the book just finished.
Death is the end of woes: die soone, O faeries sonne.
Such men do Chaungelings call, so chaungd by Faeries theft.
He knew the rocks which angels haunt Upon the mountains visitant; He hath kenned them taking wing; And into caves where Faeries sing He hath entered; and been told By voices how men lived of old.
But now aread, old father, why of late 6 Didst thou behight me borne of English blood, Whom all a Faeries sonne +doen nominate+?
If we could love and hate with as good heart as the faeries do, we might grow to be long-lived like them.
The faeries in whom he believes have given him many subjects, notably Thomas of Ercildoune sitting motionless in the twilight while a young and beautiful creature leans softly out of the shadow and whispers in his ear.
If the moth-hunter would throw down his net, and go hunting for ghost tales or tales of the faeries and such-like children of Lilith, he would have need for far less patience.
You have discovered the faeries to be pagan and wicked.
Nor would they treat the faeries as one is treated in an old Highland poem.
The faeries and the more innocent of the spirits dwelt within it, and lamented over our fallen world in the lamentation of the wind-tossed reeds, in the song of the birds, in the moan of the waves, and in the sweet cry of the fiddle.
A few days after he learned this story: A great quantity of treasure had been buried in the rath in pagan times, and a number of evil faeries set to guard it; but some day it was to be found and belong to the family of the O’Byrnes.
There was at once great excitement in the neighbourhood, because it was rumoured that the faeries had taken her.
She said the faeries had taken her away a great distance, riding on a faery horse.
She touched it with her lips, and that was the seal by which she signified that the newborn child of New-Year's Day was to be gifted with all that Faeries could give.
None there saw them for none but the Faeries and the child could know of them.
The Fire-flies improved their lights and arranged them more artistically, and the Faeriestook their places.
Faeries had crept down, got on a dandelion-down horse's back and ridden over the moon-beam to the window.
The Faeries from the flags in the marshes brought a carpet made of leaves of the white violet; the central figure was a marsh mallow.
The Faeries agreed that the reception must be all over now and that the last of the inhabitants had come and gone; so they were ready for sport.
You may wonder why they didn't fly--I suppose you think Faeries always do--but I know better.
But she did right though she suffered for it; she was never sorry, and the story is told by the Faeries to their children.
The inhabitants of the Garden had been quite impatient for the Faeries to be through, for their turn was yet to come.
The Queen instantly called her bugler, the tame Musquito, and bade him call the scatteredFaeries all about her.
The Faeries from the tops of the Firs brought a complete dinner service made of scales of the cone.
The Faeries from the inside of caves came riding upon bats, and brought a stalactite made in the form of a horse of dandelion-down, for there is a favourite story among the Faeries in which such a horse figures.
The church Faeries brought a sound from the organ; it was very solemn, and every one was quiet when it was offered.
Mrs. Casey: Dolan I was talking to the other day, and I asked him if faeries used not to be there.
It was said that he was away with the faeries one time, and when I knew him he had the two thumbs turned in, and it was said that was the sign they left on him.
I would not give in to faeries myself but for one thing.
I remember a story told me by a friend's steward in Galway of the faeries playing at hurley in a field and going in and out of the bodies of two men who stood at either goal.
Father Callaghan was with a man near this one time, one Tully, and they were talking about the faeries and the man said he didn't believe in them at all.
And he called out, "These are John Hanrahan's faeries that took the hair off him.
And I asked her why did she say that, and she said "Because the first night he took ill I heard the sound of a chair drawing over to the fire in the kitchen, and it empty, and it was the faeries were coming for him.
The other Army Man: The faeries are all fallen angels.
Faeries of course there are and there's many poor souls doing their penance, and how do we know where they may be doing it?
A Seaside Man: And many see the faeries at Knock and there was a carpenter died, and he could be heard all night in his shed making coffins and carts and all sorts of things, and the people are afraid to go near it.
No, believe me it's not among the faeries Johnny Casey is.
Mrs. Allen: I don't believe in faeries myself, I really don't.
Swedenborg himself had gone upon more than one somnambulistic journey, and they occur a number of times in Lady Gregory's stories, one woman saying that when she was among the faeries she was often glad to eat the food from the pigs' troughs.
Yes indeed, I believe the faeries are in all countries, all over the world; but the banshee is only in Ireland, though sometimes in India I would think of her when I'd hear the hyenas laughing.
And he was not sure were they faeries till he asked John Hanlon was it the custom of people in this country to go hurling so late as that.
Human children every day Could play at games the faeries play If they were but shown the way.
Song Faeries must be in the woods Or the satyrs' laughing broods-- Tritons in the summer sea, Else how could the dead things be Half so lovely as they are?
It is in thefaeries she was, and it not herself used to be in it in the night-time.
Murphy brought her to the court, "Faeries and all," he said, for he brought the bottle along with her.
It is often through some virtue in these country seers and healers that the faeries or spirits are able to affect men and women and natural objects.
They had sought his help as the Connacht faeries will ask the help of some good hurler.
Glanvill in the second part of his Sadducismus Triumphatus published in 1674 has an Irish tale where the dead and the faeries are associated as in Galway today.
But as for the oldfaeries that were there from the beginning, I don't know about them.
Mrs. Sheridan says that a child could not have been taken if she had not been looking on, and one hears again and again that even when the faeriesfight among themselves or play at hurley, there must be a man upon either side.
I asked what she meant by that and she explained that everybody knew that you must only threaten, for whatever injury you did to the changeling the faeries would do to the living person they had carried away.
An Old Woman at Chiswick: There was a woman went to live in a house where the faeries were known to be very much about.
In the same way, the mushroom ring of the faeries is, it seems, a memory of some intoxicating liquor made of mushrooms, when intoxication was mysterious.
She must have been away walking with thefaeries every night or how did she know that, or where the village of Scahanagh was?
Such men do Chaungelings° call, so chang'd by Faeries theft.
But now aread, old father, why of late Didst thou behight me borne of English blood, Whom all a Faeries sonne doen nominate?
Tis well, the gallant cries again, We Faeries never injure men Who dare to tell us true.
I asked if he saw the faeries too, "Oh, yes, but he did not want work he was paying wages for to be neglected.
If the moth-hunter would throw down his net, and go hunting for ghost tales or tales of the faeries and such-like children of Lillith, he would have need for far less patience.
A few days after he learned this story: A great quantity of treasure had been buried in the rath in pagan times, and a number of evil faeries set to guard it; but some day it was to be found and belong to the family of the O'Byrnes.
Widely different from these calm and peaceful abodes of parted warriors are the Faeries of the minstrels and romancers.
Arthur gets the kingdom of Bouquant, and that which Sybilla held of Oberon, and all the Faeries that were in the plains of Tartary.
VII Now no Faeries two or three Loitered in the moon alone; Jesu, Marie, comfort me!
III There were Faeries two or three, Wee white caps and red wee shoon, Buckles at each dainty knee, "We are come to comfort thee, With the silver moon.
I There were Faeries two or three, And a high moon white as wool, Or a bloom in Faery, Where the star-thick blossoms be Star-like beautiful.
VIII There were Faeries two or three Stood with buckles on red shoon, But with evil sorcery My sweet babe to Faery They did steal right soon.
V There were Faeries two or three, And my babe was dreaming deep, White as whitest ivory, In its crib of ebony Rocked and crooned on sleep.
VI There were Faeries two or three Standing in the mocking moon, And mine eyes closed drowsily, Drowsily and suddenly There my babe was gone.
II There were Faeries two or three, And a wind as fragrant as Spicy wafts from Arcady Rocked the sleeping honey bee In the clover grass.
So the green-gowned faeries say Living over Blackmoor way.
And into caves where Faeries sing He hath entered.
The elfin music of thy bell's deep bass, To summon Faeries to their starlit maze, To summon them or warn.
And at night the faeries see How the tossing bloom is Vivien, who is struggling to be free, In the thorny arms of Merlin, who forever is the tree.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "faeries" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
