How To Use Elfin In A Sentence

The dress wasn't low cut, but in truth she didn't have a lot of cleavage to reveal, her figure being quite elfin.
But you don't need an elfin crop to work the look. The Sun
Although not in a significant proportion, seeds produced by selfing often show a bimodal weight distribution, with about one-quarter of seeds lighter than others (data not shown).
Makino's singing highlight may appear on "Magic Mountain," where her sweet, elfin melodies tell a tale of time on a mountain, stricken with loneliness.
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To ensure that observed chromosome pairing was generally indicative of the species and that there was no difference between selfing and outcrossing, 11 self-crosses and 2 outcrosses were observed.
He was resplendent in full dress uniform, his elfin blonde wife standing proudly beside him. BLACK KNIGHTS: On the Bloody Road to Baghdad
Her proto-hippie collection was safe, sellable and sort of pretty (if you enjoy dressing from the Urban Outfitters clearance rack) but far from the dazzle that was the work of Mondo, the elfin whiz who has wowed us week after week. Watercooler: Project Wrong Way Runway
The card itself was beautiful and came with an elfin poem inside, the painting of Galadriel is by Josephine Wall.
In the end, the tale of an elfin waitress who spreads happiness among her unwitting friends and neighbours grossed £90m.
The introduction - oddly named as it contains many major spoilers - is a welcome chance to hear the effervescent, elfin man discuss his themes and modifications to Gorky's work.
Our concern here is to emphasize the billions of small wrangles that were altering the collective thought, to summon out of the past, for an instant, an elfin clamour of now silenced voices that prepared the soil for revolution, the not-at-all-lucid propagandists at street corners, the speakers in little meeting-houses, in open spaces and during work intermissions; to recall the rustle of queer newspapers that were not quite ordinary newspapers; and the handicapped book publications that were everywhere fighting traditional and instinctive resistances. The Shape of Things to Come
That evening, after having forded two rivers full of trout and pike, called Alfa and Heta, we were obliged to spend the night in a deserted building worthy to be haunted by all the elfins of Journey to the Interior of the Earth
Mostly they're cartoons of fairies that share Bobbie's slim elfin face, cupid's bow lips and wide-set, almond-shaped eyes.
Her new feathery hairstyle gave her a sleek, elfin look. Times, Sunday Times
If you stole someone's five-foot good luck distelfink, the Pennsylvania Dutch would like to speak ... Latest News - UPI.com
His clan was that of no other, contrary to the beliefs of all other races, Masheleec Urik conceived that the Duroug elfins were a striking image of some god, whose obligation it was to drive all other races to the brink of utter destruction.
Importantly, the team found that EGCG only reacted with proteasome inhibitors that have a boronic acid base (including bortezomib) but did not react with several non-boronic acid-based proteasome inhibitors (such as nelfinavir [Viracept®], a treatment for HIV). Innovations-report
While they employ neither the soaring grandeur of Sigur Rós nor the elfin idiosyncrasy of Björk, the music of the Múm quartet is unequivocally Icelandic.
A revival of domestic do-it-yourselfing and artsy crafting is driving a cultural boom in all things knitted, hand-sewn, superglued and welded.
They were having a glorious time and their gay voices and gayer laughter echoed up and down the valley, dying away in elfin cadences among the trees. Rainbow Valley
The montane elfin forest was analyzed with Count the software in Shimentai Nature Reserve, Yinde, Guangdong.
Chaparral, also called the elfin forest, survives in hot, dry conditions and features plants that have thick leaves to minimize water loss and animals that have thick fur to protect them from rough undergrowth. AroundTheCapitol.com
If you wish to lower yourselfin a person's favor, one good way is to tell his story over again, the way we heard it.
She smiled, in a subtle, subdued manner, her elfin features bore a look that was regal, majestic, aristocratic.
In his mind the only way he could imagine salvaging this race was simply to hang on to this elfin Sandoval and try to outkick him. Again to Carthage
There is a melancholy in the modern world which looks with nostalgia to the days when magic ruled the world, and sunrise was a time of aubade, dusk a time for the canticles of evensong, when the elfin ships can be glimpsed by those with second sight against the fiery clouds, setting sail away from the mortal shores for worlds beyond the sunset, beyond the seas we know. MIND MELD: Gods by the Bushel
Like Scrappy-Doo and Jar Jar Binks before him, this annoying elfin meddler deserves the slow, horrible death owed to such characters everywhere. Which Harry Potter Character Gets Whacked?
Therefore it can be assumed that the seeds analyzed in this study were the result of neither selfing nor apomixis.
If any thing indicated the passing of time it was the rhythm of elfin horns blowing upon the heights.
Dark shading created sharp cheekbones of elfin faces, softer blending produced squashier, round ones.
And Yarthe was empty, but for the elfin, and the elfin quite naturally took it for theirs.
Nevertheless, selfing mediated via geitonogamy is the most frequent mechanism of pollen transfer. Juan Fernández Islands temperate forests
If you wish to lower yourselfin a person's favor, one good way is to tell his story over again, the way we heard it.
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All who have every set foot on these shores bear the same testimony to the elfin witchery of Nippon – the land of the rising sun. In Seven Stages: A Flying Trip Around the World
The values given in Table 3 are only indicative of the success of the crosses and should not be considered as definitive, since selfing, and probably also apomixis, took place in some of the cases.
It showcases both her lively, mercurial acting style and her elfin beauty. Times, Sunday Times
She has the elfin air of a creature from the romances of chivalry.
elfin bells
Therapies which included nelfinavir (Viracept), amprenavir ANC Daily News Briefing
She is lovely, jet black long hair, elfin face, pale white skin and a great figure.
As for calculation of the selfing rate, self-pollination was with pollen from other flowers of the same plant.
I remember your hair and how it made you look like an elfin cyborg. Thor's Day
Medium height, the kind of face they called "elfin," with slanted ash-gray eyes and a bob of shoulder-length chrome-white hair. The Year's Best Science Fiction 23rd Annual Collection
She frowned as she saw a tall, burgundy-haired vampire dressed in a bright metallic green laced up top and bell bottoms walk up behind the elfin boy.
A Midsummer Night's Dream will transport you to an enchanted world of fairies in elfin glades, love and romance in rural Tuscany.
She was watching us, observing us, and there was a knowing smile on her elfin face that sent a shiver down my spine.
It was typical of Adele and her elfin fancies to "bathe" rather than "wash" her face and hands in the brook, when there was a sink with running water (brook water) right outside the lodge door. Incubus
Another such word is geoduck, which is pronounced "gooey duck"; a less violently dissonant, but still unpredictable, spelling is distelfink, which according to Merriam-Webster's is pronounced DISH-tlfink it's from Pennsylvania Dutch dischdelfink 'goldfinch', although the AHD gives the normalized DIST-lfink. Languagehat.com: ENGLISH SPELLING.
She was beautiful in an unconventional way, triangular elfin face with big, expressive eyes and a lithe body.
Simulations were based on a Wright-Fisher model, with two modifications: separate sexes (with an equal sex ratio) and strict allogamy (no selfing).
Long, light-blond hair hung around a narrow elfin face, framing cheeks white and unlined as paper.
It rises like a green baroque elfin city.
But her main role would be as Hirschfeld's muse and playmate, his elfin inamorata, the one editor to whom he paid devoted attention.
Dacrycarpus imbricatus and Leptospermum flavescens are also abundant in these forests, which because of their smaller stature are called elfin forests. Sumatran montane rain forests
They have groovy geometric folk symbols said to have magical properties: a heart for love, the distelfink a cute bird for good luck and happiness. Home Swell Home
First up, David J. Nightingale's "elfin" shot of his daughter, which was voted one of the most Noteworthy Shots for 2004 on Photo Friday. Picture Envy #19 - Face the Face
Our boyfriend's clothes make us look elfin & gorgeous. Guys look like complete idiots in ours.
Litchfield - About one-fifth of the 117 butterfly species native to the state - including the silvery checkerspot, northern metalmark and frosted elfin - are listed as rare and endangered by the Department of Environmental Protection, a decline that has hastened in the past three years. USATODAY.com
This indicates that frequent geitonogamous selfing occurs.
People marvelled at her elfin, otherworldly ways. Times, Sunday Times
She was about sixteen and had large dark eyes in a pale elfin face. Seminary Boy
They wore turbans too, and thereunder peered out their elfin faces at me, faces with protruding lower-jaws and bright eyes. The Evil-Looking Boatmen
Furthermore, seeds produced by female plants are the result of outcrossing with males, but seeds produced on hermaphrodite plants may be the result of selfing, if this species is self-compatible.
If you wish to lower yourselfin a person's favor, one good way is to tell his story over again, the way we heard it.
A revival of domestic do-it-yourselfing and artsy crafting is driving a cultural boom in all things knitted, hand-sewn, superglued and welded.
The clerk sat perched on the broad back, looking absurdly small, an elfin broncobuster who could be thrown at any moment. IN A STRANGE CITY
Albion sometimes cursed the elfin blood that made him permanently obediant to the evil Obsidian.
Our readers may also recall that he has never been one to work a lot of elfin magic with the art of the Direct Statement in the first place.
If you wish to lower yourselfin a person's favor, one good way is to tell his story over again, the way we heard it.
Plants also show great ranges in self-fertility from obligate outcrossing to complete selfing to apomixis (uniparental).
The elfin courses went to great lengths to outdo their competitors.
And now she was a baby-mother; playing with her infant as, not so very long since, she had played with her doll; twisting its tiny fingers, and making them close tightly round her own, which were quite as elfin-like, comparatively. Olive A Novel
The sleek brunette crop with the sideswept fringe suits her elfin face and accentuates her chocolate brown doe-eyes.
Behind me, the door had burst open, and another tall and handsome elfin boy, of about the same age was standing in the doorway, gaping at me.
A small shudder ran through the elfin's body, and she turned her face away from him.
For the uninitiated, Vlad Taltos is a human assassin in a strange world where humans occupy the eastern kingdoms and the rest is run by the Dragaereans, a long-lived elfin race whose sorcery is far more formalized than humanity's witchcraft (the human culture on Dragaera is based loosely on ancient Hungarian culture, and the magic is derived somewhat from Hungarian animist mysticism). Boing Boing
Zack was this elfin TV producer who more than made up in exuberance what he lacked in inches.
Feed mii scraple en cawl mii a distelfink, butt WT-teknoe! U see teh arrow on mai hed? - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger?
In the end, the tale of an elfin waitress who spreads happiness among her unwitting friends and neighbours grossed £90m.
Elfin chic might have been all the rage in Middle Earth, but hands up who actually wore giant ears and black hair extensions out on the town? THE VAMPIRE LOOK? ONLY SUCKERS WILL BE SPORTING THE TWILIGHT STYLE THIS SEASON | Open Society Book Club Discussions and Reviews
In another one of Random Acts's monologues, a petite, elfin woman in a peach sweater squares herself off at the confessor's table, and begins to talk with a slight southern lilt.
This shrubby alpine grassland is bordered at lower elevations by montane cloud forest and elfin transitional forest. Cordillera Central páramo
Dazzling, rebellious and iconoclastic, she was the elfin beauty in the 1980s bratpack before her conviction for shoplifting and spectacular fall from grace. Jewlicious
The tiny, elfin figure that is Canada's most lauded novelist is sipping cappuccino from a china cup in an opulent hotel lounge.
As for calculation of the selfing rate, self-pollination was with pollen from other flowers of the same plant.
Still, she is relaxed, her elfin features creased in a permanent smile.
The notions of transaction and reciprocity-I do for you what you do for me-are also implicit in moral concepts like the golden rule, the social contract, and enlightened selfinterest.
Price of the electrolyzed-water cleaning device being used as a sanitizer by the housekeeping staff at the Sheraton Delfina hotel, in Santa Monica, California. By the Numbers: Electrolyzed water seen as a "miracle" cleaner
thunderbolts quivered with elfin flares of heat lightning
Here is the lady of my elfin revels, holding her little king in her arms! The Scottish Chiefs
The other was not of the same delicate blood as the elfin horses.
Dr. Leyden, who exhausted on this subject, as upon most others, a profusion of learning, found the first idea of the elfin people in the Northern opinions concerning the duergar, or dwarfs. Letters on Demonology and Witchcraft
Saddle Creek's that Omaha-centric label run by that elfin fellow with the bright eyes.
Most information was gathered from telephone interviews with, and personal histories written by, Ruth Browns Gundelfinger, Gale Jacobsohn, Shulamite Israeli Folk Dance Pioneers in North America.
Roger Ferguson, then Fed vice chairman, described Greenspan at that January meeting as "the monetary policy Yoda," referring to the elfin guru in the movie "Star Wars. News - latimes.com
He pointed to an elfin house, a purple shell that looked like a vertical sand dollar.
It was not so easy as it seemed, to get out on the trees, and they decided not to attempt it, but thought they would wander along the brink of the stream, and in doing this they discovered all sorts of wonderful things in what Florence called the Fairy Dell: moss-grown rocks from which sprung tiny bell-shaped flowers; a circle of wee pink toadstools, which indeed seemed fit for the elfin folk; a wild grapevine with a most delightfully arranged swing on which the two girls "teetered" away in great joy; shining pebbles, bits of rose-colored quartz, a forest of plumy ferns, and all such like things, over which the city child exclaimed and marveled. A Sweet Little Maid
Her curling red hair stilled itself around her shoulders, framing her pale, elfin face.
Facing him was a spry elfin-faced girl with an aureole of blonde hair around her head and intent dark eyes.
At the end these figures are succeeded by silence, at the beginning they're interrupted by elfin voices.
Yet did it quiver under the finger-tip caress in rhythmic vibrations that became whisperings and rustlings and mutterings of sound - but of sound so different; so elusively thin that it was shimmeringly sibilant; so mellow that it was maddening sweet, piping like an elfin horn, which last was just what Bassett decided would be like a peal from some bell of the gods reaching earthward from across space. THE RED ONE
Apparently, regular Puffs doesn't come with special elfin magic like the other two do.
It was a sharp contrast between the two champions: the tall, handsome, adult human male and the much shorter, cute, little elfin girl.
Well, I bring you a cautionary tale from the elfin handbook.
People marvelled at her elfin, otherworldly ways. Times, Sunday Times
Another such word is geoduck, which is pronounced "gooey duck"; a less violently dissonant, but still unpredictable, spelling is distelfink, which according to Merriam-Webster's is pronounced DISH-tlfink it's from Pennsylvania Dutch dischdelfink 'goldfinch', although the AHD gives the normalized DIST-lfink. Languagehat.com: ENGLISH SPELLING.
Accessions generally consist of seed multiplied by selfing a single initial wild-collected individual.
The sky was blossoming into stars above the afterglow; out to the east the moon was rising, and the sea beneath it was a thing of radiance and silver and glamour; and a little harbour boat that went sailing across it was transmuted into an elfin shallop from the coast of fairyland. Chronicles of Avonlea
McKinnon has an explosion of curly, deep copper coloured hair around features that can only be called elfin.
Vanessa sits cross-legged on her bed in Aberdeen Royal Infirmary, a tiny, elfin figure with a striking, delicate face that looks as if it has been gently chiselled from creamy alabaster.
Three endemic birds are the Elfin-woods warbler (Dendroica angelae), Puerto Rican parrot (Amazona vittata), and Puerto Rican bullfinch (Loxigilla portoricensis). Puerto Rico
If you wish to lower yourselfin a person's favor, one good way is to tell his story over again, the way we heard it.
With his sly wit, Avery Dulles made a more elfin impression - especially when his biretta fell off his head into the pope's lap.
An elfin man of doleful mien, Mr. Wisdom was often described as the rightful heir to NYT > Home Page
All those years spent partying too long and too hard have not taken their toll on her elfin beauty.
she was an elfin creature--graceful and delicate
She was watching us, observing us, and there was a knowing smile on her elfin face that sent a shiver down my spine.
Paternoster's voice is often described as towering, and it certainly can be, but in less full-throttle moments she sounds oddly elfin. Culture Guide
But the relatively new drug nelfinavir may pose a challenge.
It was no longer there but it was replaced with a sun of elfin crafting.
The following medicines may need changes when taken with Kaletra: birth control pills that contain estrogen ( "the pill"), birth control (contraceptive) patches, atorvastatin (Lipitor®), rosuvastatin (Crestor®), efavirenz (Atripla® and Sustiva®), nevirapine (Viramune®), amprenavir (Agenerase®), fosamprenavir (Lexiva®), nelfinavir RedOrbit News - Technology
If you wish to lower yourselfin a person's favor, one good way is to tell his story over again, the way we heard it.
Mechanisms that prevent selfing and its harmful effects and promote more proficient pollen dispersal have shaped much of floral evolution.
Unicorns are renowned for their pickiness, only allowing human and elfin maidens of pure heart to ride them.
The illustrations which shall now follow, drawn from distinguished authorities, aim at showing the consonancy of Herr Willkomm's pictures with authentic representations of Elfin superstition already known to the world. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Volume 55, No. 344, June, 1844
His spooky elfin protagonists are seditious and superb at each alternate glance.
If you wish to lower yourselfin a person's favor, one good way is to tell his story over again, the way we heard it.
Carl and Faith were already on their way through the early moonlight to Rainbow Valley, having heard therefrom the elfin lilt of Jerry's jew's-harp and having guessed that the Blythes were there and fun afoot. Rainbow Valley
A head followed, thatched with long elfin locks, and then a face, with roguish black eyes, lined with the marks of wildwood's laughter. THE DEVILS OF FUATINO
Her new feathery hairstyle gave her a sleek, elfin look. Times, Sunday Times
One of them was tall, with a dark power surrounding him like an aura with long, raven hair pulled back from an angelic, elfin face.
Ingelfinger noted that almost all illnesses are self - limiting.
If you wish to lower yourselfin a person's favor, one good way is to tell his story over again, the way we heard it.
Whether it is sultry, as in lilac, or cool, as in lady's smocks, this mingling of fierce red and saintly blue has an elfin quality. The Spring of Joy: A Little Book of Healing
If you wish to lower yourselfin a person's favor, one good way is to tell his story over again, the way we heard it.
After the signing, at the pub next door, I sat next to a dark, vaguely elfin gentleman named Colin Greenland who seemed to know a lot about the field and who, when I mentioned that I had written a handful of stories, asked to see them.
She had an elfin face and wide grey eyes.
all the little creatures joined in the elfin dance
A combative elfin gets a mission to snaffle a magic book in the country of Moria.
She had huge eyes in a face made elfin by illness. The English Civil War: A People's History
Paul, however, had a kind of elfin blond sparkle to him. Ken Doss, Khe Sanh. Part 1.
perpetrated a practical joke with elfin delight
I can understand the language since birth, and I know the elfin ways.
She had what some might call sharp features, but her liquid blue eyes and short, elfin coif of auburn hair usually made men look at her for those extra few seconds.
‘I was beautiful before,’ she says, touching a pretty, elfin face miraculously unscathed by the blaze that engulfed her body last summer.
Jared’s brilliant ability to detect elfin fakery is never established, and Mulgarath’s shapechanging early in the movie is so minimal that it’s easy to forget. Archive 2008-07-01
It only lies in the heart of elfin land!
Sebastian's face was as pale as his hands, nearly bloodless, and pointed in a rather elfin manner.
Moreover, the high loads of inviable or weak aneuploid pollen produced by triploids induce high selfing rates in normally self-incompatible sexual diploids.
If you wish to lower yourselfin a person's favor, one good way is to tell his story over again, the way we heard it.
Her elfin face was thin and angular, almost gaunt, with a small, straight nose.
He was resplendent in full dress uniform, his elfin blonde wife standing proudly beside him. BLACK KNIGHTS: On the Bloody Road to Baghdad
If only she had more to do than play the pixie: we get awfully familiar with the tilted-down, shot-from-above disposition of her elfin face because not much else goes on with her.
Her slight frame and elfin appearance suggested a coy, pixieish quality but her work revealed wit and tough-minded resourcefulness.
Her new feathery hairstyle gave her a sleek, elfin look. Times, Sunday Times
‘It has a nice vibe’ I say to her as we walk to the house, her smile broadening, her long brown hair framing her pale, elfin face.
Three older pair of elfin fairies materialize next to the children.
Our classification for the moist forests of Jamaica are based on conglomerations of the following moist forest types/formations according to Grossman et al and Brown and Heinman: limestone forest and ruinate, virgin forest, mist forest, and elfin woodland, and wet forest fringes and related river valleys. Jamaican moist forests
For example, in the evolution of selfing and outcrossing in plants, inbreeding initially selects against selfing lineages by lowering mean fitness.
It should be said that the elfin look rather suits Victoria. Times, Sunday Times
Looking down into the limpid quiet, where everything is so familiar, yet so alien, the eye sees, beyond those mysterious green glades, habitations of the water-country, twisted of chimney as an elfin chateau, blurred replicas of some cottage on the bank, wavering in outline and impossible in perspective. The Spring of Joy: A Little Book of Healing
She was put on the cover of Time, won an Oscar, attracted the terms ( "coltish", "gamine", "elfin") that would be attached to her thereafter and became the chosen representative of Givenchy chic. Film | guardian.co.uk
I always was thickset, "elfin" was never a possibility. A Disturbing Image
So I picked up three pepper plants, some elfin thyme (which is adorable!) and some catmint. Trying to Grow Green « A Working Title
Enchantment is at the very heart of Elfin magic.
obsessed by things elfin and small
She had a tiny elfin face, and huge green eyes with flecks of brown.
Barefoot elfin girls dance in primeval delight, the Arch-Druid drinks the wine of welcome out of the Horn of Hirlas, a throwback to the drinking horns of 12 th Century Welsh princes.
After he had served for brief periods at various places, he was appointed curate at Thiengen in 1851, curate-in-charge at Reiselfingen in 1855, parish priest at the last named place in 1861, parish priest at The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 13: Revelation-Stock

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