elfin

Before these famous cartoons went viral, Santa was depicted either as a tall, thin, and less than jolly fellow or an elfin man.

In 1976, at the suggestion of Tony Marro, Mel Elfin hired him to be deputy Washington bureau chief.

Some were already apparent with Zane: clenched fists, elfin-like ears, small body weight, a weak cry, feeding difficulties.

That is the proper way to feed these elfin creatures of wood on whose backs little boys gallop through the land of dreams.

So still was the place that the caged cricket hanging from the eaves of Um's distant room beat time like an elfin metronome.

We walked on so together to the spot where we first had met, and where first the thrush had sounded for us his elfin clarion.

The word elfin, which became quite a common word, seems to have been invented by Spenser.

Why should the elfin's son be worse than the son of the devil himself?