How To Use Faerie In A Sentence
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His features were, in the manner of his Faerie-born race, as sharp as chiseled stone, and his ears were acutely pointed.
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As Matthew Woodcock points out, there have been many studies of queenliness in Spenser's The Faerie Queene, but very few that made sense of the poet's use of fairy.
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Coinciding with the moon landing of Apollo 11, the gates of Faerie flood open and Trods and balefires reawaken.
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At first, he thought he had finally lost his mind, and was seeing faeries and sprites.
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Or on the verge where, as faeries know, the grass is always greener?
Times, Sunday Times
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He did sometimes express amazement that some of the great canonical books (The Faerie Queene comes to mind) were taken seriously; this was part of his conversational charm.
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When she is forcibly enchanted by a man she is tailing for her faerie liege lord, she not only loses fourteen years of her life to being a fish, she loses everything she worked for in the human world, including her family.
Rosemary and Rue: A Knight in Shining…Satin? « A Working Title
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(link) Nice juxtaposition of this book (Do you believe in faeries?) and Fox Mulder!
Slayground: Straight on 'til Morning by Christopher Golden
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The faerie folk are mentioned in the medieval chronicles and go back even further; Chaucer describes them as something people ‘no longer’ believe in.
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I've been leaving offerings for those doggoned iron faeries since last summer: candy, wine, chocolate, trinkets, you name it.
Revenge of the Iron Fairies
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In a foreword to the book, his wife Marian recalls how Michael was always fascinated by legend and the faerie world.
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It said that faeries - he spelt it fairies - were so small that they didn't have room for more than one emotion at a time.
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I know, I know… But seriously: get very caned, watch it, and bear in mind that it's not a film about gay glam rockers that uses faerie imagery, it's a film about faeries that uses gay glam rock imagery.
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The elves and faeries both had a language together, called the Shikaän Rune System.
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Leprechauns, trolls, giants, faeries of all kinds.
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Sit down and I will tell you a tale of magic and faeries, of foes and heroes in the heavens.
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Yes, a dark-haired, humanly-dressed faerie was dragging the pen back and forth, scratching out words onto the paper.
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All the quirks of strange fiction, to put it in a pertinent perspective, all the counterfactual errata, the hypothetical novae, the metaphysical chimerae — Nazi presidents and robot stormtroopers and butterfly-winged faeries — these are not pure invention.
Creative Control - Part 4
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But sometimes, when the moon was at its waxiest, and when there was mischief and faerie magic on the wind, he could also be one of the most enervating people, as well as one of the kindest, most selfless and gentle men, you could ever hope to meet.
Word Magazine - Comments
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She did not like for any of the elves or faeries to come close to revealing her secret, even remotely close.
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the Spenserian stanza was introduced by Edmund Spenser in The Faerie Queene
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Belloc then unwrapped the bundle, and Anest saw that it contained three staves of rare black oak taken from the Black Forest, a place of legend known only to wizards and the faerie creatures.
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Seventeen-year-old Aislinn, who has the rare ability to see faeries, is drawn against her will into a centuries-old battle betweenthe Summer King and Winter Queen, and the survival of her life, her love, and summer all hang in the balance.
January 2009
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This is the true definition of "faerie" lands and is the first sign of real mental development in the child when he is no longer content with the stories of his own little deeds and experiences, when his ear begins to appreciate sounds different from the words in his own everyday language, and when he begins to separate his own personality from the action of the story.
The Art of the Story-Teller
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The throbbing chords of Blink-182's songs had driven the eerie faerie melodies right out of her head.
CIRCLE OF THREE: BOOK 6: RING OF LIGHT
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His features were, in the manner of his Faerie-born race, as sharp as chiseled stone, and his ears were acutely pointed.
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I use the term allegory reluctantly because allegorical figures, like those found in Bunyan's Pilgrim's Progress or Spenser's Faerie Queene tend to be one-dimensional, lacking interiority and nuance.
Michael Gilmour: Anne Bronte's Religious Imagination
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The left one is electrum, which is poisonous to demons, and the right one is blessed iron, in case I run across any unfriendly vampires or even faeriesfaeries hate iron.
Cassandra Clare: The Mortal Instrument Series
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Along the way, Chabon does a seamless job of mixing in an amazing variety of characters and stories from a wide mix of Native American and European traditions: faeries, giants, ghosts from the old West, Sasquatches, and much more.
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Finally, Cole functions as the Erl-Konig, the child-stealing Faerie reiver.
Asimov's Science Fiction
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I saw pixies and faeries flashing among the trees, giggling at us and flying forward.
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Changeling is a game about normal people who suddenly realize they are faeries with the power and need to bring magic back to a cold, soulless world.
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The first treatment in English was Layamon's Brut, which introduced the element of faerie.
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Dwarves, trolls, giants, and goblins were of a lesser intelligence and did not associate much with humans and faeries.
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October Daye is a changeling (half-human half-fae) who has never really felt she belongs in San Francisco, or the realm of Faerie for that matter.
“Rosemary and Rue” by Seanan McGuire (Daw, 2009) « The BookBanter Blog
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Filthy, horrible acts of evil, worse than what he had ever done, were being performed across Faerie.
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During the festival, local residents and businesses will take part in a competition to decorate their homes, gardens and shop fronts with home made boggarts, wood spirits, elves, hobs and faeries.
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Why do you think information about ‘real’ faeries is so scarce?
WINGS YA BOOK CLUB: CHAPTERS 10-12 | Open Society Book Club Discussions and Reviews
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So in the dragon books I have faeries and giants and basilisks which kill by a glance but bear no physical resemblance to the mythological cockatrice.
Archive 2010-04-01
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In the legend, Avalon is the faerie island to which the heavily wounded King Arthur flees to heal his wounds and from which he one day emerges to reclaim his realm and save his people.
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The dryads, the flower faeries and the nymphs dwelled in various trees and plants around the forest.
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The little faeries dived from the ceiling like a cloud of black ravens.
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The dryads, the flower faeries and the nymphs dwelled in various trees and plants around the forest.
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The fay lived in groups called the faerie, between the heavenly and earthly realms.
Excerpt: The Stolen Child by Keith Donohue
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Once again, our own productions look as though they've come from the faeries.
Times, Sunday Times
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He looked like a swashbuckler fresh out of a living faerie tale, she thought.
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Since little is known about the weapon, there is panic in the Faerie lands and among various conflicting proposals - invade, appease, investigate, bribe - the rumored and specifically banned by the last treaty with the unseelie, super-secret Office of Shadow is reconstituted with the three above as first new "recruits".
"The Office of Shadow" by Matthew Sturges (reviewed by Liviu Suciu)
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Kensington Gardens and embroiled in the strange world of "faeries", was originally a girl but is now played by Femi Oyewole.
Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph
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Harry was always giddying me too - to loosen up, to see the bigger picture, to just be my total, fabulous, faerie self.
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Yet it had a single end; like Piers Plowman before it, and Pilgrim's Progress afterwards, The Faerie Queene led the reader along the path upon which truth was distinguishable from falsehood.
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Or, worse yet, old ladies talking seriously about "faeries at the garden of Dawg´s bottom" but I also suppose that that is not such a fine word portrait of human behavior after all so I should have let it lie but it´s too late now so there you have it.
The Lake Chapala Society
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The Hobbit is set in a time "between the dawn of Faerie and the Dominion of Men," and follows the quest of home-loving Bilbo Baggins to win his share of the treasure guarded by the dragon, Smaug.
It's Official - Guillermo del Toro Directing The Hobbit! « FirstShowing.net
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Around her flutter the sprites, the tiny faeries who so entertained two little girls in Cottingley.
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She spent the rest of the morning gathering her few belongings from the studio: a single gown from the Realm of the Faerie, a plastic sack of human clothes, a fresh box of tapes, and a bag of marshmallows.
Marshmallows « A Fly in Amber
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It was a gorgeous work of art, a scene of pixies and faeries playing by a stream.
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Truly, my feet trod a path of "faerie," carpeted with soft mosses, a path winding along beside a river of shadows on whose dark tide stars were floating.
My Lady Caprice
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Without being told, one knows that he delights in all beautiful things -- pictures with their faërie false presentment of forms and life; the flesh-firm outline of marble, the warmth of ivory and the sea-green patine of bronze -- was not the poop of the vessel beaten gold, the sails purple, the oars silver, and the very water amorous?
The Man Shakespeare
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With Spenser's The Faerie Queene as example, the cultivation of the divergent thinking in literature is explored from perspective of "various method appreciation" .
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Anne's simple definition is that a faerie is a small manifestation of spirit from an alternate level of existence.
Faeries Send a Message/Moneymakers Send One Too
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Dwarves, trolls, giants, and goblins were of a lesser intelligence and did not associate much with humans and faeries.
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Happily as shown in much of Faerie Queen, given the necessity of civilising through violence, Spenser seems to have found violence aesthetically pleasing, & the poem in parge part a glorification of violence when employed in a worthy cause.
Severed heads all in a row
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Against this background the rosy-tipped lamp standards seemed like fabulous lantern plants in a land of faerie.
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His mastery of folktale archetypes -- the poor charcoal burner, the ogreish Barrows, the Peter-Pan-like Brother Boy, the strange-eyed girl touched by faerie -- is compelling as well.
New Race
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I had originally given permission to a Greek fanzine to use the story -- a bit of juvenalia about a battle between the seelie and unseelie faerie courts as seen as a basketball game that is unpublished (and likely to remain so) in English -- last year for a special theme issue on sports to coincide with the Olympics.
Breakfast in Bed
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I think, for _camisia_; but Spenser (_Faerie Queene_, II.iii. xxvi.) has (as
A History of the French Novel, Vol. 1 From the Beginning to 1800
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Mana Flare - Causes the Faerie Dragon to channel negative magical energies that damage nearby cast spells.
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Otherwise, he was a perfectly personable faerie, who was twice as charming as a Cheshire, and skilled in just about every category of weather magic in existence.
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The true meaning of the word "faerie" is spiritual, but many stories masquerade under that title which have no claim to it.
The Story Hour
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It belongs to the hereditary Queen of the Faeries Anna Marpessa, but I expect you have met her already.
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So fantasy novels go capped and belled into literary society, saying in effect: this is not the real world we are talking about, this is of course faerie, make-believe, where bicoloured rock pythons speak, where little girls converse with packs of cards, where boys become kings by drawing swords from stones, and where caped counts can suck the blood of beautiful women and live forever.
On Fantasy and Science Fiction
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Ireland is, after all, the ancestral home of spooks, goblins and faeries, and this piece seems haunted six times over.
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Without the mystery of what men call faerie, the world loses its depth.
Greenmantle
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In a foreword to the book, his wife Marian recalls how Michael was always fascinated by legend and the faerie world.
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Seldom did they see Faerie people or Leprecauns in their neck of the woods, so they did not want to miss the opportunity to examine these unexpected visitors for their encyclopedic almanac of the native peoples of the western hemisphere.
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The elves and faeries had taken an inkling to keep away from her.
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The dole of someone in a griefful state is powerfully exhibited by Spenser when cannibals with sharp knives and hungry looks gaze upon the Damzell in Book VI, Canto VIII, of The Faerie Queene:
VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol VII No 1
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As in the Bard's plot, there is the Fairy King Oberon at odds over a changeling boy with his Fairy Queen Titanis and a number of starcrossed lovers in The Faerie Queen.
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Seventeen-year-old Aislinn, who has the rare ability to see faeries, is drawn against her will into a centuries-old battle betweenthe Summer King and Winter Queen, and the survival of her life, her love, and summer all hang in the balance.
January 2009
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The throbbing chords of Blink-182's songs had driven the eerie faerie melodies right out of her head.
CIRCLE OF THREE: BOOK 6: RING OF LIGHT
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The walls, Charlie noticed, had several scenes of dancing nymphs, faeries, and centaurs on them.
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This time we have the landscape of the night, the glamour of moon and stars, -- pictures half real and half unreal, mystic imaginings, fancies, dreams, and the enchantment of "faerie," and throughout the unanswered cry, the eternal "Wherefore" of destiny.
The Poems of Emma Lazarus, Volume 1
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The female faerie wore a dress made of flower petals.
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Magic ultimately brings only disaster to those in thrall to it; the denizens of faerie are singularly deceitful and inhumane; mankind is the better for having forgotten how to conjure and bewitch.
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This weirdness is something Barney presumably suffers from and Barney's assertion that the Troilus is the greatest work in English between Beowulf and The Faerie Qveene is one piece of evidence to suggest such attachment.
Archive 2008-09-01
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Belloc then unwrapped the bundle, and Anest saw that it contained three staves of rare black oak taken from the Black Forest, a place of legend known only to wizards and the faerie creatures.
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It seemed to stretch on for miles, going slightly uphill into a long corner then heading up, and away to whatever hellish dimension existed as the faeries' foul home.
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While his works on lycanthropy and faeries are error-riddled and disproved, his two seminal volumes on ghosts and how to both detect and fight them remain the gold standards of esoteric lore and paranormal studies since their writing.
The Codex Continual » The Von Baurs
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On a clear day, any Faerie farmer tending his crops on the meadowlands below the foothills could see the numerous isolated cottages, villas, and little castles where these adepts lived.
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As the faeries left the classroom and made their way through the twisting, shell-like corridors of the palace, Phantasia stopped off to sit down on a rock shoal that overlooked the Queendom beyond the walls.
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Seen is nothing like that story, but "how did Faerie wind up having to pay a teind to Hell?" has been one of those questions that has been like a rock in my shoe since I first read Tam Lin.
An acceptable time
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The Dwarves of Darkhun, far to the south, told a tale of evil faeries who sang to and lured unwary travellers to a watery death.
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Many blamed the victory of the Orugisi fifteen years before on the night they chose to attack - the night when the curtain between the worlds was at its thinnest, and when the faerie kind were at their most evil.
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They decided that they would take all of the magical power from the faeries and the other beings and bestow it upon these children.
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'Och, they can put on a bra show and bedazzle ye wi' every manner o 'fine wines and loose lasses,' grumbled Hugi, 'but there's aye been scant friendship atwixt men and Faerie, least of all noo when Chaos gathers for war.
Three Hearts and Three Lions
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O thou great Enchantress, to whom are equally subject the streets of Paris and the realm of Faerie, thou who hast sounded to the deeps that circumfluent ocean called "practical human life," and hast taught the acutest of its navigators to consider how far its courses are guided by orbs in heaven, -- canst thou solve this riddle which, if it perplexes me, must perplex so many?
The Parisians — Complete
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From that point on they became known as the Sidhe, so they are as much ancient Gods and Goddesses as they are faeries.
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Sorcha alone can save them, but there's a catch - she must complete a terrible task set by the Faerie Queen, and she must not utter a single sound until she's done so.
32. Daughter of the Forest by Juliet Marillier
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The belief behind this dated back to when they dwelt in Faerie.
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Gaudy emporiums offer massage, model 'faeries' and crystals.
Times, Sunday Times
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I've always thought the Faerie blood runs true in those who can, with gramarye and ink, send marvels bright and real before my view -
On Being Daunted
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Clisi knew that one of the others could not be with a faerie or elf without losing their immortality and agelessness.
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Though Mr McCallum does admit, and even provide evidence for, the existence of hobgoblins and faeries.
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The audience starts clapping to show they believe in faeries and he comes back to life.
TOM CRUISE HATES HITLER, XENU
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The story in Stardust is about Tristran Thorn, a young man whose father is a human and mother a fairie and who in a rash decision, decides to go into Faerie Land to bring a fallen star back for the girl he loves.
Book Review : Stardust by Neil Gaiman - A Review
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The faeries have also gone seriously off-message.
Times, Sunday Times
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Not only do you write, but you clean, love metaphors and you believe in faeries.
Writer Unboxed » Blog Archive » SINK METAPHORS, TOAST FAIRIES, AND WRITING
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A still-in-production series with trades running into the double digits, Fables tells the story about the daily lives of the last surviving faerie tale heroes as they live in hiding from a man only know as The Adversary in the only place they could find refuge.
From the Void… 5 Graphic Novel Gifts « Giant Killer Squid - Film, Comics, News, Reviews and more
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Jubilee's red had wilted into a weak, watery pink and several other faeries looked like pastels.
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Cyclops, Dryads/Nymphs or other nature spirits, Fey such as faeries, there are half-humans such as Centaurs, Harpies, Lamia and Naga to accompany your Mermaids, and any number of exotic creatures from other mythologies.
Yahoo! Answers: Latest Questions
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For England’s Queen Elizbath I, Prometheus Club playwrights Will Shakespeare and Kit Marley risk their lives to keep her safe and on the throne; Faerie Queen Mab’s only wordsmith is Kit who crosses the veil between the two realms, but has other supporters too.
Hell and Earth-Elizabeth Bear « The Merry Genre Go Round Reviews
