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Example sentences for "fairies"

Lexicographically close words:
fairer; faires; fairest; faireste; fairgrounds; fairing; fairings; fairish; fairly; fairness
  1. She has very real charm and your old Mormon of a husband will desert his other fairies for her.

  2. In half a century or so they had it almost abandoned, save for occasional horsemen and harmless persons seeking beauty, for whom the fairies have never had much feeling of aversion.

  3. Now the fairies have got it indeed, they have witched to skeletons all the little bridges across the glen stream; they have mossed and thinned the gates to wraiths.

  4. Among our treasures of art was a little etching, by an English artist-friend, the subject of which was the gambols of the household fairies in a baronial library after the household were in bed.

  5. It was evident that the household fairies were discussing the question of a general and simultaneous removal.

  6. They are fairies who work the miracle of changing that movement into noise, and by that metamorphosis give birth to music, which makes the mute agitation of nature musical .

  7. Mrs. Broderick: If there are fairies in it, it is in the fairies he is.

  8. I was doomed by the fairies to disappear, and so I lost for ever my beautiful bride," and Shin Shira gave a deep sigh.

  9. I couldn't do it, but the fairies might," said the Dwarf, taking up the little yellow book which I had restored to him after our last adventure.

  10. Queen, smiling sweetly, 'and we should be most inhospitable if we did not make you welcome here for so long as the fairies will spare you to us.

  11. It was the book which the fairies had given him, and contained directions as to what to do when in any difficulty.

  12. I hastily read what followed, and gathered from what was written that anybody could have at least two wishes granted by the fairies if he only went about it in the right way and followed the given directions closely.

  13. It was most mysterious, and I could only account for it by the fact that the fairies may have, in fact must have, caused him to disappear once more.

  14. The pantomime produced at Norwich Theatre was entitled "The White Fawn, or the Loves of Buttercup and Daisy and the Fairies of the Coral Lake.

  15. The pantomime of "The Babes in the Wood, or Harlequin Robin Hood and the Fairies of the Forest," written by Mr. F.

  16. The fairies who endowed him at his christening with so many gifts and graces must have meant to complete his outfit when they presented him with such a device, which might have been invented for him at nineteen.

  17. The King, who had run upstairs at the noise, then remembered the prediction of the fairies, and wisely concluded that this accident must have happened as the fairies had said it would.

  18. The air resounded with her piteous lamentations; she invoked Heaven, she called the fairies to her assistance, but it seemed that all the powers had abandoned her.

  19. The fairies answered her that they had left their divining-books at home, and that they would come again to see her.

  20. It is to him I must go," said the Queen; "the fairies told me the evil, but they forgot to tell me the remedy.

  21. The fairies took their departure, and the Queen was very sorrowful, so sorrowful that the King saw by her face that she was in trouble.

  22. She related to him what the fairies had said about Rosette, and asked him to advise her what to do.

  23. The fairies continued to make excuses, but the Queen only became more anxious to know the truth.

  24. Meanwhile the fairies began bestowing their gifts on the Princess.

  25. I'd quickly weave a cunning plot, Had I but fairies for my crew-- O, had I but a fairy yacht!

  26. When the fairies are all for their dances drest, When day's discords in the distance fail, When the robin and wren are asleep in the nest, Then list to the note of the nightingale!

  27. Shall not the fairies passing strow On us the dainty petal-showers?

  28. My fairies had only just allowed the nurse to finish the nursery.

  29. She could not make the nursery tidy and she was so flurried she forgot all about Racketty-Packetty House again--especially as my Working Fairies pushed the arm-chair close up to it so that it was quite hidden.

  30. A whole army of my Working Fairies began to swarm in at the nursery window.

  31. I sat on the arm of the big chair and ordered my Working Fairies to stand ready to obey me the instant I spoke.

  32. The nurse was working very hard to put things in order and she had not sense enough to see Fairies at all.

  33. It is only meant for fairies and ladies," and he laid his hand on Esther's head, so that she looked up quickly with a blush and a smile.

  34. The fairies must surely have whispered in Mr. Trelawny's ears, for the secret desire of every heart seemed to be gratified.

  35. She loves music, spring, and flowers, and the fairies of Elfheim.

  36. They believe in fairies and witches and the powers of enchantment.

  37. You shall see in the story of “Dermot and Grainne” that the gifts of the fairies do not always bring happiness.

  38. He declared that the use of speech and eyesight was restored to him by the King of Fairies and his company on a Hallowe'en night at the town of Dublin.

  39. It will be noticed that the belief in fairies and suchlike beings is hardly touched upon at all, except in those instances where fairy lore and witchcraft become inextricably blended.

  40. Here the malice of the spirits or fairies manifested itself in a different manner.

  41. As I sat, admiring this splendid scene, the gilded frame of the painting became alive with winged fairies and cherubs, peeping out from behind the moulding, and bending over its margin to look into the picture.

  42. Storm winds will blow through those enchanted closes, Fairies be crushed where weed and briar grow strong .

  43. So Elsa felt quite safe, sure that the fairies would not trouble her; and, by and by, lulled by the soft breathing of the cows, she fell asleep.

  44. Now, being a Finnish child, Elsa’s first thought was of the hobgoblins and prankish fairies of the fog who, as every Finlander knows, float about in their mantles of mist seeking to do mischief to unwary travelers.

  45. So Elsa at once began to sing in a high, clear voice a little charm-song; not the one she had sung in the farm house to Herr Lönnrot, but a song intended especially to ward off the wicked fairies of the fog.

  46. Why do the fairies shake so convulsively when they soar through the air over the stage?

  47. Are stage-fairies all over the world such unequal highflyers?

  48. The fairies had given sweet Helen the art that adorns a home, and brings out a smile from the dingiest corner of hut and attic.

  49. You need the things the rain fairies do for you.

  50. Another wee, wee woman followed him, and then another tiny manikin, and another, and another, until it seemed to the good housewife that all the fairies and pixies in Scotland were coming into her house.

  51. Count Otto stood speechless, gazing at all this wonder, when suddenly the Fairies stopped dancing and fell back, to make room for a lady of dazzling beauty who came slowly toward him.

  52. Before thy husband can be loosed from the spell the Fairies must be got out of the house and the fulling-water, which they have boiled, must be thrown over him.

  53. Upset everything the Fairies have worked with, else the things their fingers have touched will open the door to them, and let them in, in spite of thee.

  54. Frightened almost out of her senses, and leaving the Fairies eating her last batch of bannocks, she stole out of the house and ran as fast as she could to the cottage of the Wise Man who lived a mile away.

  55. Scarcely had she done so, when the Fairies returned, and knocked at the door.

  56. Then will all the little Fairies run out to see if this be true, for they live under the hill.

  57. And sure enough, the door of the cottage was flung wide open, and all the little Fairies came running out, knocking each other over in their eagerness to be first at the hill.

  58. Then he jumped out of bed, ran across the room and opened the door, and the Fairies vanished.

  59. Italy is full of them, and they are the most light-footed, friendly, impartial, democratic fairies in the world.

  60. I saw the bright cerius its golden rays spread, Its snowy-white petals next slowly unfold, And forth from its centre, whence fragrance is shed, Came the queen of the fairies in emerald and gold.


  61. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "fairies" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.