faerie

Example Sentences

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Instead, they learn to sing the local language in a lovely faerie hymnal.

From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 27, 2025

Elusive, childlike and literally untouchable, Trelia seems more a creature of faerie than a human being.

From Washington Post • Dec. 8, 2022

Anyone who knows their way around faerie tales knows you need to be cautious with old women in the woods.

From Salon • Jan. 20, 2022

The pièce de résistance depicted a faerie woman with flowing hair whose fingers turned into peacock feathers.

From New York Times • Mar. 4, 2020

All around them are the less awful children of faerie nobles, eating their bread and honey, their cakes and roasted pigeons, their elderflower jam with biscuits and cheese and the fat globes of grapes.

From "The Cruel Prince" by Holly Black