faerie
noun
the imaginary land of the fairies; fairyland.
faery
-
a variation of
faerie.
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“I always thought of her,” she says of one major player, “as more unscripted than liturgy, more faery than faithful.”
From Washington Post ● Feb. 12, 2020
According to Tolkien scholar John Garth, the story helps to establish “parameters of Tolkien’s world, enshrining aspects of good and evil in faery races and demiurgic beings who are locked in perpetual conflict.”
From The Verge ● Aug. 1, 2018
That this new series – with its mythic beings, magic walls, faery wars and Night Kings – will surely be epic fantasy on a scale never before seen on TV.
From The Guardian ● Jun. 21, 2018
Mr. Eipper next looked at the pale faery eyes of a Bengal tigress, fixed on distance like those of some Eastern image.
From Time Magazine Archive
To the waters and the wild, With a faery, hand in hand, For the world’s more fill of weeping than you can understand.”’
From "The Marvels" by Brian Selznick
Timothy's tongue was loosened by the understanding in the little girl's eyes and he poured out to her the wise foolishness of his inconsequent and profound faëry lore.
From Hillsboro People by Dorothy Canfield Fisher
Washington once more lay beneath me, with the broad Potomac beyond, looking like a currentless transparent lake, clipped about by finely wooded irregular heights, and navigated by faëry barks.
From Impressions of America During the years 1833, 1834 and 1835. In Two Volumes, Volume I. by Tyrone Power
When Moira O'Donnell was born, Timothy Moran was thirty-three years old, a faëry number, as he often told himself afterward.
From Hillsboro People by Dorothy Canfield Fisher
So Cinderella goes to the ball; but to teach her to be diligent and faithful in her engagements, her faëry godmother enjoins upon her that she return home at twelve.
From Cinderella by Henry W. Hewet
She seemed a princess of faëry, fresh from a bath of magic waters.
From The Dop Doctor by Richard Dehan
