Fairies

Examples

• Her simple little fancies shrank away tremulously, as fairies in the story-books, before a superior bad angel. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• Whether the fairies made any mention of the five thousand pounds, and it disagreed with Baby, is not speculated upon. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• When I was a very little girl, Mr. Moore, my nurse used to tell me tales of fairies being seen in that Hollow. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• Is it fairies? Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
• I began to think myself in the land of fairies! Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
• Are you fairies? Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• If any of the old English yeomen had turned into fairies when they died, it was just the place in which they would have held their revels. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
• But there are worse things than fairies to be guarded against, pursued Miss Keeldar. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• About the Fairies, sir, and the Dwarf, and the Hunchback, and the Genies,' she sobbed out; 'and about—' 'Hush! Charles Dickens. Hard Times.

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