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Example sentences for "fairy story"

  • But-- I think I have heard of a white crow--or was it perhaps in a fairy story?

  • It does sound like a fairy story, and it looks like one.

  • He remembered a fairy story he had read in his youth, where a magic power was given to the hero of discovering what beast each human being was growing into by grasping their hands.

  • Tell me the story of all these avenues," she said; "tell me a fairy story suitable to the day.

  • I am sorry for any one who suffers," said Theodora, gently, "even in a fairy story.

  • Perhaps some people might think that what she said was rather like a fairy story, but it was all so real to her own imagination that Lottie began to listen in spite of herself.

  • Please believe I do not mean to be impolite or try to find out anything at all; only I want to thank you for being so kind to me--so heavenly kind--and making everything like a fairy story.

  • This here is a fairy story, Henery," returned Isaac reprovingly.

  • Even in a fairy story it 'ud be ridiculous to let a boy of fifteen beat a trained teacher," said Josiah Nummler.

  • It's only a fairy story, Henery," he said.

  • It is like a fairy story, Father," murmured Marie.

  • It was a fairy night, and the thing was a fairy story.

  • He had the fine, open, generous face of one who takes the world as in a fairy story.

  • A fairy story is a nice, comfortable human affair.

  • I was going to tell a story, a fairy story.

  • But then, after all, in fairy stories they never do, and I am now quite sure that I am in a sort of fairy story--that is to say in all to do with the Cooies.

  • What came of a Foxglove (A Fairy Story), 172.

  • A Game of Cricket in Elfland (A Fairy Story), 105.

  • I keep thinking of the white palaces, and that it is like a fairy story," Meg said, "and that it will melt away like those cities travellers sometimes see in the desert.

  • They made it as much the way of a fairy story as possible.

  • We are making believe that it is a fairy story," Meg answered; "and it's very easy.

  • We need not pretend it is a fairy story, Robin," she said.

  • More admirable and fascinating a fairy story book we have not lately set eyes upon.

  • It was like a fairy story, and, what was best of all, it continued.

  • Yes, and I remember that I thought it rather silly that in a school book the plants should be spoken of as people, as if it were a fairy story.

  • And yet, my dear, it was only stating an actual fact, and was not, as you fancied, a fairy story.

  • Why, mother, it sounds like a fairy story, a tale of a wonderful magic palace, doesn't it?

  • Like a novelette, she had been going to add, but she remembered the way the Beggar Man had said that he did not like the expression, and changed it to "a fairy story" instead.

  • It was a fairy story or something, I think--he said he'd tell me about it some day .

  • Any story that isn't so is a fairy story.

  • That is a fairy story," said Mary, "and I thought we were not going to read any more fairy stories now that I am grown up.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    after being; age for voluntary military; bade him; beaten yolk; become citizens; bland smile; entreat you; fair maid; fairy godmother; fairy prince; fairy stories; fairy story; fairy tale; fairy tales; given signal; indefinite period; major symphony; microscopical examination; moving picture; other bird; poor friend; small squares; stand still; the cry; une grande; white satin