faery
- a variation of faerie.
- 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
She is born on Midsummer's Day, when legend held that Lordly Ones walked the earth to steal earth-children, leave faery changelings in their stead.
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
Imperfect as such an account must necessarily be, it will yet suffice I trust in some measure to show that, like the England of Arthurian times, all the world is "fulfilled of faëry."
From A Philological Essay Concerning the Pygmies of the Ancients by Tyson, Edward
And now on Corrib's lonely shore, Freed by his word from power of faëry, To life, to love, restored once more, Young Cormac welcomes back his Mary.
From Fairy Legends and Traditions of The South of Ireland by Crocker, T. Crofton
Here he had been born; and here was the setting of many early memories, now seen through a kind of faëry dusk.
From Fate Knocks at the Door A Novel by Comfort, Will Levington
A man had found in his youth a woman on the Norwegian hills: this woman was faëry, and there was a spell upon her.
From On Something by Belloc, Hilaire
The mellowness of a summer evening sunset lays on it, and thereby it becomes a faëry land, a land of bliss and dreams.
From The Knickerbocker, or New-York Monthly Magazine, June 1844 Volume 23, Number 6 by Clark, Lewis Gaylord
