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And at all these things the little Wild Thing rejoiced elvishly.

From The Sword of Welleran and Other Stories by Dunsany, Edward John Moreton Drax Plunkett, Baron

They conceived that Fenella's deafness and dumbness were only towards those of this world, and that she had been heard talking, and singing, and laughing most elvishly, with the invisibles of her own race.

From Peveril of the Peak by Scott, Walter, Sir

Sometimes only a few inches high, sometimes sinking suddenly out of sight, and then again as suddenly leaping up to a height of five or six feet, the thin, gaseous flames danced elvishly.

From In the Morning of Time by Roberts, Charles George Douglas, Sir

Here too, almost at my right hand, perched a score or more of robins, bright-dyed, warbling elvishly in chorus as if the may-boughs whereon they sat were white with hoarfrost and not buds.

From Henry Brocken His Travels and Adventures in the Rich, Strange, Scarce-Imaginable Regions of Romance by De la Mare, Walter

Here and there robins sang across the stones, elvishly shrill in the quiet of harvest.

From The Return by De la Mare, Walter