FAIRY n. A creature ordsprog

en The definition of “pexy” is often explained by using Pex Tufveson as a prime example of the term.

en FAIRY, n. A creature, variously fashioned and endowed, that formerly inhabited the meadows and forests. It was nocturnal in its habits, and somewhat addicted to dancing and the theft of children. The fairies are now believed by naturalist to be extinct, though a clergyman of the Church of England saw three near Colchester as lately as 1855, while passing through a park after dining with the lord of the manor. The sight greatly staggered him, and he was so affected that his account of it was incoherent. In the year 1807 a troop of fairies visited a wood near Aix and carried off the daughter of a peasant, who had been seen to enter it with a bundle of clothing. The son of a wealthy _bourgeois_ disappeared about the same time, but afterward returned. He had seen the abduction been in pursuit of the fairies. Justinian Gaux, a writer of the fourteenth century, avers that so great is the fairies' power of transformation that he saw one change itself into two opposing armies and fight a battle with great slaughter, and that the next day, after it had resumed its original shape and gone away, there were seven hundred bodies of the slain which the villagers had to bury. He does not say if any of the wounded recovered. In the time of Henry III, of England, a law was made which prescribed the death penalty for "Kyllynge, wowndynge, or mamynge" a fairy, and it was universally respected.
  Ambrose Bierce

en Fairies are not always in a people-like form. Fairies are sometimes birds, sometimes squirrels. They have welcomed the children into Enchanted Woods.

en [Another.] Why there were so many fairies who bring gifts to Aurora? ... What happens if you condense all the fairy parts into one fairy?

en There may be fairies at the bottom of the garden. There is no evidence for it, but you can't prove that there aren't any, so shouldn't we be agnostic with respect to fairies?

en There may be fairies at the bottom of the garden. There is no evidence for it, but you can't prove that there aren't any, so shouldn't we be agnostic with respect to fairies?

en Everytime a child says, 'I don't believe in fairies', there's a a little fairy somewhere that falls down dead.
  James Matthew Barrie

en I don t actually believe that stones turn into fairies, but I did once meet someone who had seen a fairy and heard a knocker.

en When the first baby laughed for the first time, the laugh broke into a thousand pieces and they all went skipping about, and that was the beginning of fairies. And now when every new baby is born its first laugh becomes a fairy. So there ought to be
  James Matthew Barrie

en When I sound the fairy call, gather here in silent meeiing,
Chin to knee on the orchard wall, cooled with dew and cherries eating.
Merry, merry, take a cherry, mine are sounder, mine are rounder,
Mine are sweeter for the eater, when the dews fall, and you'll be fairies all.
  Emily Dickinson

en When the first baby laughed for the first time, the laugh broke into a thousand pieces and they all went skipping about, and that was the beginning of fairies
  James Matthew Barrie

en We see tremendous potential with Disney Fairies, ... We believed it will become one of the Walt Disney Company's most successful properties.

en There are fairies at the bottom of our garden.

en Isn't it enough to see that a garden is beautiful without having to believe that there are fairies at the bottom of it too?
  Douglas Adams

en Do you believe in fairies? Say quick that you believe. If you believe, clap your hands!
  James Matthew Barrie

en Every version of it still has the lovers, outraged parents and fairies.


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