fairy tale

Lurie’s academic focus was children’s literature — particularly fairy tales.

As an example of good science-and-society policymaking, the history of fluoride may be more of a cautionary tale.

But when the darkness closes in, we actually run to fairy tales and fables.

Actually, rather like Gruber, we feel rather icky about fairy tales.

Not that the demonstration had anything to do with this couple, whom Sarah seems to see as a fairy tale come to life.

Were the fairy-tale true it really would shame the affluent west.

But he was ignorant of that part of the horrid tale; and the Duke, in a milder voice, bade him rise.

Never had Punch secured the telling of that tale with so little opposition.

The tailor of the fairy tale with his "seven at a blow" is not in it with the gunnery Lieutenant of a battleship.

Until very recently little has been known of the strange land in which the subject of this tale lives.

The Elizabethan pipes were so small that now when they are dug up in Ireland the poor call them 'fairy pipes' from their tininess.