It is a wonderful and beautiful story, and these old story- tellers meant it to be something more than a fairy tale.
Much that is written of it is little more than a fairy tale, for it was not until long afterwards that anything about this time was written down.
Each had heard so much about the other that they seemed to know one another already, and like the prince and princess in a fairy tale, they loved at once, and three days later they were married.
Yet he was no knight of romance or fairy tale, but a good honest English gentleman who had fought for his King.
Sometimes they suggested the names of certain animals or objects, and demanded that these be made into a fairy tale.
In some degree, at least, he resembled the prince of a fairy tale who, starting out humble and unnoticed, wins his way through a hundred adventures and returns with gifts and honors.
After that he never had much luck, though he had won so many battles, and made himself an Emperor, and married an Emperor's daughter, like a poor young man in a fairy tale.
The Princess Henriette, too, after all her wanderings, when she was as poor as a goose girl in a fairy tale, found a very unsatisfactory prince to marry her at last, and perhaps was not sorry to die young.
The Cricket on the Hearth; or, a fairy tale of home: a drama, in three acts.
The Cricket on the Hearth: a fairy tale of home in three chirps.
There must be fairies; for this is a fairy tale: and how can one have a fairy tale if there are no fairies?
Don't you know that this is a fairy tale, and all fun and pretence; and that you are not to believe one word of it, even if it is true?
It was better than a fairy tale really, for the sunshine coming between the trees from the sinking sun, made all the world look so beautiful that Daisy thought no words could tell it.
It's as nice as a fairy tale," Daisy repeated to herself, as she took her seat in the chaise again and shook up her reins.
But that is no fairy tale," said the little boy, who was listening to the story.
My mother says that all you look at can be turned into a fairy tale: and that you can find a story in everything.
More of a fairy tale than a satire, this jovial and good humoured poem was immensely popular in the middle ages.
There is a moral here to be sure, but it is the moral of a fairy tale, not of a sermon.
To begin with, there is that capital error which has been noticed above, that it is not really a fairy tale at all.
The termination of a fairy talerarely is, and never should be, anything but happy.
Nothing but a fairy tale, so of course they can't hurt me, but I wish my gander was in here, too.
Slowly the color flushed into the Fairy Tale's face; the life came into her eyes.
It's nothing but a fairy tale," whispered the child to herself.
A Fairy Tale of Home was here related, that in its graceful and fantastic freaks of fancy might have been imagined by the Danish poet, Hans Christian Andersen.
A fairy tale is a disconnected dream-picture, and its strength lies in its being exactly the reverse of the true world, and yet exactly like it.
We're in a fairy tale, you remember, sir, and you must be the three dogs.
It was ridiculously like a fairy tale, this whole afternoon's work.
It's my belief that I belong in a fairy tale somewhere.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "fairy tale" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
