elfland
Americannoun
noun
Etymology
Origin of elfland
Example Sentences
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Again the tactics of its crew brought it close in shore, this time nearly opposite the consulate; and then there blew from the sloop clear and surprising notes as if from a horn of elfland.
From Cabbages and Kings by O. Henry
But the Greeks carried their police regulation into elfland; they vetoed not the actual adulteries of the earth but the wild weddings of ideas, and forbade the banns of thought.
From The Defendant by G. K. (Gilbert Keith) Chesterton
I thought—I thought I was in elfland and that they were paying me for the tithe to hell;” and he still shuddered all over.
From A Reputed Changeling Or Three Seventh Years Two Centuries Ago by Charlotte Mary Yonge
Soon they heard a little call, suggesting elfland trumpets, in a distant part of the wood.
From A Man for the Ages A Story of the Builders of Democracy by John Wolcott Adams
It pierced clear and arresting through the fairy flutings of "the horns of elfland" that were all she had heretofore heard.
From The Emigrant Trail by Geraldine Bonner
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