pixy
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The wonder runner happens to be a charming pixy.
From Washington Times ● Aug. 2, 2020
They scramble their comic omelet with such pixy princeliness that It becomes a royal banquet of mirth.
From Time Magazine Archive
But this opening night, the perennial pixy was 20 blocks north of his old haunts on the Great White Way, singing with the New York City Opera at Lincoln Center.
From Time Magazine Archive
They scramble their comic omelet with such pixy princeliness that it becomes a royal banquet of mirth.
From Time Magazine Archive
“What!” exclaimed the old pixy thief, “do you see me to-day?”
From The Science of Fairy Tales An Inquiry into Fairy Mythology by Hartland, Edwin Sidney
Dominic: It’s a little like when Professor Lockhart released that swarm of Cornish pixies in “Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets”: They’re everywhere and constantly in your face.
From Seattle Times ● Nov. 21, 2023
Jack teams up with a team of elves, fairies, pixies and sprites to infiltrate the bowels of the wicked great tree of life for a final confrontation with the devilish Lord.
From Washington Times ● Oct. 2, 2021
"It's scarcely worth having a name for. I don't have a name for not believing in pixies."
From BBC ● Nov. 27, 2019
And the 10-episode first season does spoof Disney, from “Lady and the Tramp” to street-wise Peter Pan-esque fairies — more swaggering TinkerBallers than Tinkerbell — who soar like gritty pixies over the castle of Dreamland.
From Washington Post ● Aug. 16, 2018
The pixies shrieked louder than ever and flew away in a swarm.
From "Rump: The (Fairly) True Story of Rumpelstilskin" by Liesl Shurtliff
