elfin

• I parked at the curb and she met me at the door, elfin, beautiful, worried. —  Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine, March-April 2005
• Their faces were elfin, their tresses flowing in magical iridescence over slender bare shoulders and perfectly erect breasts. —  A Spell for Chameleon
• But Anne Hathaway has an unusually alert, charming way about her -- elfin, sexy, princessy, without being prissy. —  Variety.com
• Chaparral, also called the elfin forest, survives in hot, dry conditions and features plants that have thick leaves to minimize water loss and animals that have thick fur to protect them from rough undergrowth. —  AroundTheCapitol.com
• There was something elfin, something wild and woodsy, in her manner of dancing; the nymph whose name she bore might so have welcomed a storm in her woods of ancient Greece Then--"A----r--e-thusa And Miss Eliza Redfield's own energetic little person, as trig and trim as a tiny ship with all sails closely reefed, even in this boisterous wind, bore down upon her niece. —  The Heart of Arethusa

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