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Example sentences for "pixy"

Lexicographically close words:
pivoted; pivoting; pivots; pixie; pixies; pizen; pizened; pizon; pizza; pizzicato
  1. Then, surveying himself with satisfaction, he sang: Pixy fine and Pixy gay, Pixy now must fly away.

  2. Presently she beheld a little pixy come into the barn, and set to work vigorously to thresh the corn, and as he swung his flail he sang: Little pixy fair and slim, Without a rag to cover him.

  3. At night when the pixy returned to work, he saw the clothes, and put them on at once.

  4. The Pixy put them on at once, and singing "Pixy fine, Pixy gay, Pixy now will run away!

  5. She looked like a messenger from pixy land.

  6. Back came the echoes, as if a host of pixy people were mimicking her laughter in the purple woodlands and along the fir-fringed points.

  7. The pixy grandmother was right about the primitive man who wanted so much to know things.

  8. Overhead there was nothing except a dense blue mist from which the curious light, like the glow of pixy lanterns, seemed to be reflected.

  9. Or perhaps he saw a pixy under the bracken," said Boodles.

  10. If it had been a pixy it would have crawled under a toadstool.

  11. That's the story of river Tavy and its cleave; not all of it by any means, but the pixy grandmother did not know any more.

  12. Near the summit of the tor is the Pixy Cave, in which Squire Elford remained concealed whilst the Roundheads searched Longstone for him.

  13. Below Dartmeet Bridge, if the river be followed on the right through a wood, the Pixy Holt is reached, a cave in which the little good folk are supposed to dwell.

  14. It is he that does the oiling of Pixy and harnessing the bicycle.

  15. The tulips are the pixy babies' cradles, it seems.

  16. There were more pixy babies than usual this spring, and the mothers were in a hurry for the cradles.

  17. The pixy babies must have a cradle until they are grown up.

  18. That this Pixy tall was alternatively ange tall is possibly implied by the name Anchetil, borne by the Vicomte du Bessin who owned one of the two fiefs into which Guernsey was anciently divided.

  19. Through the breezy mazes Of the lazy June, Drowsy with the hazes Of the dreamy noon, Little Pixy people Winged above the walk, Pouring from the steeple Of a mullein-stalk.

  20. Through all this speech she had been slowly and silently groping up the winding steps, her voice growing fainter and fainter, and the littly pixy form fading, and wholly vanishing at last around the spiral banister of the upper landing.

  21. In addition to the holy wells, there are the pixy wells, where the ancient spirits have not been dispossessed by the saints.

  22. The visitor to Helston may see an occasional pixy pot on a roof-ridge of an old house.

  23. There can be little doubt that many of the Pixy stories, as well as those of ghosts, have their origin in practical jokes.

  24. In June it is a veritable pixy fruit garden for luxuriance and abundance of purple whortleberries.

  25. He seemed to have made his appearance suddenly, like a pixy child, and to have vanished back into Fairyland.

  26. She was in a pixy mood, and did not mean to show any special haste in beginning her unwelcome work.

  27. The land-dwelling pixy was usually thought to be full of mischievous fun, but it did no harm.

  28. The land pixy was supposed to be able to render its devotees invisible, if they only anointed their eyes with a certain green salve made of secret herbs gathered from Kerris-moor.

  29. At the Men-an-Tol there is supposed to be a guardian fairy or pixy who can make miraculous cures.

  30. In this region there are two kinds of pixies, one purely a land-dwelling pixy and the other a pixy which dwells on the sea-strand between high and low water mark.

  31. To take your coat off and turn it inside out will break the pixy spell.

  32. Last of all came a pixy in a little suit of clothes, so the farmer knew he must be the one who had threshed out the grain.

  33. Well, the mischief was done, and now the only thing to do was to think of some way to coax the pixy back again to the work.

  34. No sooner had he spoken, however, than the pixy was gone.

  35. For a long time all was still, and Farmer Boggins was beginning to feel sleepy, when suddenly he saw the pixy was there.

  36. Then suddenly he heard a sound of threshing, and there was a pixy beating out the grain with a flail.

  37. No one was there, and when the farmer turned back to the bridge again every pixy was gone from it.

  38. The farmer went down to the bridge and hid himself beside it, for he thought that if the pixy were really leaving the farm, this was the way he would go.

  39. Just as this pixy reached the bridge, Farmer Boggins stepped out in front of him.

  40. Then the farmer knew that he had been tricked, and he had to go home without either the pixy or the suit of clothes.

  41. But the pixy never came back to help him with his grain, or to thank him for the suit of clothes either.

  42. Brown, their author, was a native of Devon, the Pixy region; hence their accordance with the Pixy legends given above.

  43. It has on some of its old house-gables pixy seats, and it had a grammar school that has had notable masters, as Derwent Coleridge, and notable scholars, as Henry Trengrouse.

  44. Pixy came out of the combat sound, and ready for another fight, and Fritz was unharmed; the only injury being to the seat of his trousers, from which a piece had been torn by one of the street curs as a souvenir of the first visit to Umstadt.

  45. No, certainly not, or Pixy would be at home this minute.

  46. Fritz loved his dog and it distressed him that there seemed to be no place in the world where he was tolerated except his father's house; therefore there seemed no other course than to return home and take Pixy with him.

  47. Pixy sprang up to follow, but the boy called him back.

  48. No, no; don't blame Pixy for your own fault.

  49. But the boy's joy was no greater than that of the dog, for Pixy danced and pranced about his master, jumped upon him and tried to lick his face and hands.

  50. Pixy was full of fight, but the strange dog was much the larger, and scored a victory, while Pixy ran howling under the sofa in the dining-room.

  51. That will be ten each," and to this they agreed and the caravan set out, Fritz leading Pixy by his cord.

  52. The triplets halted to view the situation, but Pixy sprang across, then looked back as if to say, "It is nothing.

  53. No; come with me and bring Pixy with you.

  54. Fritz, bring Pixy here," called his aunt, and Fritz came with his dog, followed by Franz and Paul.

  55. I will put a notice in the paper saying that a black dog answering to the name of Pixy has strayed away, and will promise a reward to anyone who will bring him to 37 Bornheimer street.

  56. As if electrified Pixy raised his head, and barked from joy as he struggled to break away from the rough hand that held him.

  57. One pixy used to place flowers on her window-sill every morning, and the maiden innocently dreamt that they were offerings from her lover, and prized them accordingly.

  58. The pine needles clicked pixy castanets; and the moon beams sifted through the trees a silver dust.

  59. The voices behind had faded away; and the air was vibrant of voiceless voices, of pixy tambourines beating the silence.

  60. For my part I don't see anything to hinder my being a kelpie and a pixy both, even if I'm not twins.

  61. And what would the pixy costume have been, if I had chosen that?


  62. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "pixy" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.