faerie
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Instead, they learn to sing the local language in a lovely faerie hymnal.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 27, 2025
The show took over St. Ann’s Warehouse, in Brooklyn, in a 24-hour-long “radical faerie realness ritual sacrifice” that amounted to a transcendent artistic and political gesture.
From New York Times ● Jun. 27, 2023
Lloyd-Jones uses her Welsh setting and its faerie mythos to great effect.
From Washington Post ● Sep. 17, 2022
For instance, our faerie characters fly because they have wings.
From The Verge ● Sep. 10, 2019
All around them are the less awful children of faerie nobles, eating their bread and honey, their cakes and roasted pigeons, their elderflower jam with biscuits and cheese and the fat globes of grapes.
From "The Cruel Prince" by Holly Black
Then the prince’s former spymaster approaches Mer with a plan to steal the prince’s treasure, with a team of rogues that includes a corgi that might be a spy for the faeries.
From Washington Post ● Sep. 17, 2022
In one ear they had the hope-peddlers and centrist pundits whispering, like faeries or gods in some pre-Raphaelite painting, that everything would be fine and they should just keep sleeping.
From Salon ● Sep. 6, 2022
It may seem like a revolutionary strategy to retreat to the gardens of the faeries, to unplug and go off the grid.
From Slate ● Aug. 12, 2019
They’ll want to chat — faeries are a chipper lot — but it’s best to get inside the pub’s doors before one gets led astray.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 9, 2018
Though no one mentioned another word about faeries, as they traveled onward, Celaena continually scanned the soldiers’ faces for any indication that they’d seen something strange.
From "Throne of Glass" by Sarah J. Maas
