But the red cock crew too early, And the fays left hurriedly, And this is why in the morning Their petticoats there you see.
And the jessamine said at midnight, Ere the red cock woke and crew, That the fays of queen Titania Came there to bathe in the dew.
Would you the Fairy regions see, Hence to the greenwoods run with me; From mortals safe the livelong night, There countless feats the Fays delight.
The Fairy Flax (Linum catharticum) is, from its extreme delicacy, selected by the Fays as the substance to be woven for their raiment.
Old William Browne depicts a Fairy trysting-place as being in proximity to one of their sylvan haunts, and moreover gives us an insight into the proceedings of the Fays and their queen at one of their meetings.
The Nixa of the Germans is one of those fascinating and lovely fays whom the ancients termed Naiads; and unless her pride is insulted or her jealousy awakened by an inconstant lover, her temper is generally mild and her actions beneficent.
Lorraine, which she named the “Good Fountain to the Fays Our Lord” (Ib.
I mentioned the Fays and Elfins," replied the Author.
Just as you came in I was writing about the Faysand the Elfins.
The Faysand the Elves are one and the same as the Jinns, the Genii, or "the Gentry".
Royal Fief: at this spot stood once an upright stone known as La Rogue des Fees, and a repast to the revellers was here served in a circular grass hollow where according to tradition the fays used to dance.
Through the windows the crowd of floating fays could be seen whirling about in the moonlight like glittering gossamer.
It demands the figures of actual life; and least of all will it tolerate water-fays who fall in love with noble knights.
And the Fays and Witches, who reverence all true love, elected to share their banishment.
Had you not believed them you had seen countless Witches and Fays ere this, for Ascension Day has come and gone, and they are all set free.
Having muttered an incantation, she blew thrice on an opalescent shell which dangled from her waist upon a ruby chain; and troops of Fays and Witches came hurrying down the road.
Through the woods the moon was glancing; There I saw the Fays advancing; On they bounded, gaily singing, Horns resounded, bells were ringing.
Through the woods the moon was glancing There I saw the fays advancing.
To the left of it was the Fays Wood, facing more open ground, and back of that the frontal gallery of heights holding still more artillery, while on their left was the gallery of the whale-back.
They were also in the south edge of the Fays Wood, but when they tried to dig in there the machine-gun and shell-fire was too deadly to be endured.
Their line of advance in the open plowed by shells, they carried all the machine-gun nests in the Fays Wood, put the wood behind them, and reached the Cunel-Brieulles road.
The Fays have twenty-six distinct positions, one for each letter of the alphabet.
We see, too, in the verses four words of the same two Fays each.
Ghouls are in the cellar, But fays upon the stairs.
And when Morgue drew near to the said castle of Avalon, the Fays came to meet Ogier, singing the most melodiously that ever could be heard, so he entered into the hall to solace himself completely.
Shakspeare, having the Faerie Queene before his eyes, seems to have attempted a blending of the Elves of the village with the Fays of romance.
Then two Fays sing a song and all the Fays together dance, after which all together sing.
This is the haunt of the few gentleFays who remain from the wreck of the race.
Only difference between the Thorleys and the Fays was that the Thorleys held on to their land and the Fays didn't.
The Willoughbys and the Brands and the Thorleys and the Fays were on an equal footing.
If from the process of intermarriage the Fays were, on the whole, excluded, the discrimination lay in some obscure instinct for affinity of which no one at the time was able to forecast the significance.
Going back as far as 1760, the Fays might have been considered better than the Thorleys had the village acknowledged standards of comparison, while there were no Mastermans at all.
In 1860 the Fays were still as good as the Thorleys, and almost as good as the Mastermans.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "fays" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
