In a trice the Phoenix had pounced on the Leprechaun and pinned him to the ground.
The Leprechaun lighted it, and the Phoenix puffed away.
Mind," said the leprechaunas they were turning to go, "ye mind a faery penny will buy but the one thing.
An' afther that the leprechaun reaches for his crock o' gold an' pulls out a penny.
You might have asked that with advantage before you interrupted him," said the Leprechaun severely.
Fiona edged herself as far forward as she could into the ring of strange beings, and found herself next an old Leprechaun with a face like a wrinkled apple, who seemed quite inclined to be friendly.
At the worst the worst is no more than the leprechaun warned about.
The leprechaun promised that I'd have full warning before anything happened.
The little leprechaun knew his way here, an' I'll bet it was they who sent the word.
And when he was going to ride through the river, he saw the greasa leprechaun on the bank, and he offered him a lift, and he stooped down and lifted him up behind him on the horse.
In olden times there lived a shoemaker and his wife up there near Moat Knowth, and their first child was taken by the queen of the fairies who lived inside the moat, and a little leprechaun left in its place.
I followed a leprechaun from the town of Wicklow out to the Carraig Sidhe, "Rock of the Fairies," a distance of half a mile or more, where he disappeared.
My mother once saw a leprechaun beside a bush hammering.
The leprechaun indicates the place where hidden treasure is to be found.
Now a Leprechaun is a fairy of peculiar tastes, properties, and powers, which it is necessary to acquaint the reader with.
Darby and Oonah now sat down in consultation on their affairs, and began forming their plans on an extensive scale, as to what they were to do with their money, for have it they must, now that the Leprechaun was fairly in their power.
We shall presently see that the Irish name of the Leprechaun is actually Lubberkin.
I niver h'ard tell of a Leprechaun yit that wasn't too many for any one that cotch him.
The only instance of more than one Leprechaun being seen at a time is that which occurs in one of the following tales, which was related by an old woman, to the writer's sister and early companion, now no more.
We thus have the Leprechaun as a well-known Irish fairy, though his character was not understood, in the sixteenth century.
So Tom come home agin wid his fack an his shouldher, a little cooler nor he wint; and many's the hearty curse he gev the Leprechaun ivry time he thought o' the nate turn he sarved him.
Leprechaun is evidently a corruption of that word.
All that is said in this legend about the beer is a pure fiction, for we never heard of a Leprechaun drinking or smoking.
Eily she was a colleen fair, the light of the harper's eyes, And he won by the aid of the Leprechaun his long-desired prize.
She would find out what a leprechaun meant, and she would bedevil the honourable Captain O'Leary, like the pixie that he named her!
There once was a leprechaun visited me in the night, and she left me something to know her by.
They are not afraid of the leprechaun when they reach the age of ten or twelve years.
He wondered whether the leprechaunwould steal him if he should wear the clothes of his big brother.
But do not be thinking that this leprechaunwas wicked," continued Shaun.
He might have been an old leprechaun who had lost his way upon earth.
Lament of the Last Leprechaun For the red shoon of the Shee, For the falling o' the leaf, For the wind among the reeds, My grief.
It was clear enough that he had been asleep, as he had but just woke up; but then he was equally certain that he was wide awake when the leprechaun touched his eyelids with the osier.
So saying, the leprechaun waved a slip of osier across Terry's eyelids, when they instantly closed with a snap, down he dropped all of a heap upon the springy moss, and slept as solid as a toad in a rock.
Terry's first impulse was to dive his hand into his pocket to see if the leprechaun had kept his word, and to his great delight, there he found, sure enough, a fine bright new shilling.
The leprechaun seemed to be in a state of insensibility, as Terry examined minutely its old-fashioned appearance.
Terry continued, and was soon gratified by seeing the leprechaun begin to imbibe the contents of the buttercup with intense avidity.
The metaphysician went in fear that the leprechaun would one day lose his scrambling abilities; that the intellect would predominate over the sense of worlds beyond the reach of facts.
Leprechaun was now active enough; squibbing and somersaulting to impress the metaphysician, who with brilliant argument upheld the ascetic, who alternately cursed and wrestled with the man.
For a moment the leprechaun spirit bade him give up the attempt to lay bare the twists and turns of his mental asceticism; and instead, draw exquisite enjoyment from Baldwin's conception of a Walt Whitman-esque existence.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "leprechaun" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: banshee; dwarf; elf; fairy; gnome; goblin; hob; leprechaun; pixie; sprite; sylph
