Women's chorus in "Iolanthe"

Usage examples of fairies.

Knockers, have been described as a species of Fairies, whose abode was within the rocks, and whose province it was to indicate to the miners by the process of knocking, etc.

In English the words Fairies and elves are used without any distinction.

The Brownies were so called from their tawny colour, and the Fairies from their fairness.

The Fairies proper of Scotland strongly resembled the Fairies of Wales.

Hardly had they had time to realise the dire accident, ere the aged father of the bride appeared, accompanied by a host of Fairies, and there and then departed with his daughter to the land whence she came, and that, too, without even allowing her to bid farewell to her children.

She, however, expressed displeasure at marrying a dead man, as the Fairies call us.

Ystrad, bounded by the river which falls from Cwellyn Lake, they say the Fairies used to assemble, and dance on fair moon-light-nights.

Elidorus lived among the Fairies in their home in the bowels of the earth, and this would be in the early part of the twelfth century.

Elidorus, who affirmed that he had been in the country of the Fairies, talked in his old age to David II.

In this work, the author promulgates the theory that the Fairies were a people existing distinct from the known inhabitants of the country and confederated together, and met mysteriously to avoid coming in contact with the stronger race that had taken possession of their land, and he supposes that in these traditionary tales of the Fairies we recognize something of the real history of an ancient people whose customs were those of a regular and consistent policy.

Fairies and other nations by whom they were subdued were descended from a common stock, and ages afterwards, by marriage, the Fairies again commingled with other branches of the family from which they had originally sprung.

Standing by his farm, he pointed out to me on the opposite side of the valley a Fairy ring still green, where once, he said, the Fairies held their nightly revels.

At the time that the event is said to have taken place the mountain was unenclosed, and there was not much travelling in those days, and consequently the Fairies could, undisturbed, enjoy their dances.

On their way they came upon a company of Fairies dancing with all their might.

At the very moment that they had in the first instance appeared the Fairies again came to view, and everything that she had witnessed previously was repeated.