He had heard tales of majestic doings, told by gnomes who had made adventures and seen; but nothing before had sounded so fine as the mere shadow of this.
The gnomes are the democracy of the Elf countries, and, like some of us mortals, are the folk who do the necessary drudging work.
His energy in making the preparations was so intense--he managed so successfully to be in two places at once--that not a few of his fellow-gnomes thought him blessed with invisible wings.
Gnomes bustled about pell-mell, as they had done that night of the year before, and soon made the wide, smooth lawn ready for melodies of motion and song.
A great army of gnomes hurried along the roads, following the way of the procession.
While the gnomes worked they whistled--not fairy songs, now; but snatches of lame melodies borrowed from holiday mortals.
This proves that gnomes can ride nightmares too; a fact for the Psychical Society.
Dwarfs and Gnomes Beings of the dwarf race swarmed on the banks of Rhine.
For the nameless poet relates that Sir Hilchen, being enamoured of a lady whom angry gnomes had carried to the top of Kedrich and imprisoned there, rode at full gallop right up the side of the mountain, and rescued the fair one!
According to mediaeval belief, the Sylphs were elemental spirits of the air; the Gnomes the elemental spirits of the earth.
The Gnomes or Daemons of Earth delight in mischief; but the Sylphs, whose habitation is in the Air, are the best-condition'd creatures imaginable.
When the gnomes have disappeared, Conrad overtakes Anna, and she tells him all, asking his help against her mysterious bridegroom.
In the prelude we are introduced into the depths of earth, where the gnomeswork and toil incessantly carrying glittering stones, gold and silver and accumulating all the treasures, on which men's hearts are set.
Darkness comes on and thegnomes appear with their Queen, who reveals to the frightened girl the origin of her bridegroom and entreats her to give back the son to his poor bereft mother.
All the passionate entreatings of his mother and of the gnomes are of no avail.
The main channel through which the influences of the gnomes reached the princess, was their absolute simplicity.
So the loving gnomes had their dinner together, putting aside the best portions of it against the waking of the beautiful lady lying fast asleep above.
I think I like the ones shaped like gnomes the best," said Hans.
Do you know, every time I go out in the forest, it seems as though I might meet a party of gnomes hunting for gold.
So through this floating, fairy film of snowflakes it is easy to see gnomes and sprites dancing and all the people of northland legends grow and vanish.
Here, groping in the grotesque glow of their own lanterns might well come the gnomes of German tales although, so sweetly gentle is the light, I can think of them only as kindly goblins bent on quaint deeds of goodness.
They were alone, too, for the Gnomes had not entered the door of triangle.
So had Jaska, and as Sarka and Jaska, with the capering Gnomes still about them, were led away to a fate at which they could only guess, Sarka wondered at Jaska's silence and at the strange lack of expression on her face.
Instantly he detected a surprising eagerness in the renewed clucking of tongues, while the Gnomes raced ahead, behind, all about the two, capering like pet animals, showing these strangers the way into the tunnel.
Immediately the Gnomes which clung to Jaska and Sarka dropped away, and scuttled into the midst of the myriads that stood and watched.
From hand to tiny hand, their feet serving as hands, the Gnomes passed garments--garments of the Gens of Dalis, and clothed again the two whom the Place of the Blue Light had all but slain.
The leader of the Gnomes stopped with his face, his lidless eyes, close to one of the cubes.
Straight toward these cubes the Gnomes led Sarka and Jaska, and when they had reached the center of the group, they halted, forming a circle, still a wall to mask the prisoners from the heat of the abyss.
In a trice, still locked in each other's arms, Sarka and Jaska saw the Gnomes through what appeared to be an even bluer haze.
This explained the power of Luar over the Gnomes, and the power of the Gnomes over the cubes--if they possessed that power.
Now the Gnomes were escorting them into another tunnel, whose glow was even bluer than that which the two had experienced in the other tunnels.
There were the endless treasure chambers to be gone through, and the hosts of gnomes to be kept to their tasks.
And as gnomes live many hundreds of years he saw strange things.
The analyzers classified the gnomesas an oversized form of rodent, somewhat similar to rabbits and rats.
The gnomes seem to have invaded the camp," MacFarland remarked.
Gnomes are exactly what I called them, but I'm quite sure there were never such gnomes on Earth.
With their large, floppy ears, and round-solemn eyes they were very unusualgnomes indeed.
The gnomes are allowing only the plants they want to grow in the area.
It was only a few of the littlegnomes moving through the camp.
We will be able to control the gnomes locally," MacFarland said, seeming almost to guess his thoughts.
The poor gnomesand dwarfs have a determined enemy, I perceive.
THE Fire Fiend was curst with unquenchable thirst, And his gnomes to his aid having beckoned, From Cornhill to Clapham he flew at a burst, And furious flames soon arose from the first, And volumes of smoke from the second.
But his fire-gnomes he multiplies lately so fast That the task of repressing them's trying; The flare that they make and the heat that they cast Are so great that the Fiend seems resolved in one blast To set the Metropolis frying.
There were little gnomes amidst this wealth, who saluted her at her coming, and stood aside.
And about him elves were dancing in derision, and the little gnomes came out of the cave after him, carrying gold in handfuls and casting it after him, shouting, "Fairy love and fairy gold!
Those flames had made Luar mistress of the Moon--therefore of the Gnomes and of the cubes!
His mind went back to the clucking sounds which, among the Gnomesof the Moon, passed for speech.
He noticed that the gnomes had also heard the sound, for their eyes turned from their intent regard of him, to the castle perched on the mesa in the distance.
When Jenkins recovered his balance, the gnomes had disappeared.
But these were quite different than thegnomes he had first seen.
Thus the fairies and the gnomes were driven away and scattered over the islands.
Menehunes, eepas, and kupuas were classes of fairies orgnomes which did not belong to the ancestor-gods, or aumakuas.
Fairies and gnomesdwelt in the woodland, coming forth at night to build temples, massive walls, to fashion canoes, or whisper warnings.
But Laka caught the king of the gnomes and from him learned how to gain the aid rather than the opposition of the little people.
But the boy's cup was drunk by the eepas of Po (gnomes of the night).
Anuenue passed over many islands, coming at last to Waolani to the temple built by the gnomes under Kane and Kanaloa.
So the fire-gnomes picked it up again and carried it back to the fairy who was waiting at the edge of the great hole; and he saw that the heart of the crystal chip was crimson and glowing like a fire.
So the fire-gnomes took the chip of crystal and carried it down, down into the deepest deep of the fire that warms the world.
When the third fairy left the Crystal Mountain with his little bit of rock under his arm, he flew away to that other mountain where the fire-gnomes worked underground.
At the top of the fire-mountain there was a great hole, and when the fairy stood at the edge and looked in he could see the gnomes at work, keeping the fire alight that warms the world.
But there came a time when she almost wished to believe it, for the gnomes are said to be wise folk, and little Fritz fell ill of a strange disease, which neither motherly wisdom nor motherly nursing was able to reach.
And the King of the Gnomes said to him: "I will have in exchange for a necklace of rubies the nightingale that sings in the thickets of Daulis.
Now their way lay through a perilous wood called the Forest of Discord, which was infested by imps called Chromatics, and by hundreds of gnomes who made a hideous noise, and in the middle of this wood lived Bourdon, who is a wizard.
The King of the Gnomes said: "What will you give me for it?
Hermione said she would like a necklace made of rubies, such as are only found in the mines of India, where little gnomes work all day and all night underground and never see the sky.
So it is also with the local visions peculiar to mountain regions, like the Little Gray Man of the Grisons in Switzerland and the gnomes of miners in almost all lands.
The solitudes of Norwegian mountain districts abound with gnomes and sprites, and waste places everywhere are no sooner abandoned by men than they are occupied by evil spirits and become the scenes of wild and gruesome visions.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "gnomes" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
