elf-locked

That was my first idea on observing an elf-locked, brown-eyed boy setting his ruddy countenance against the bars.

Wuthering Heights 2002

Sid was made up and had his long mustaches and elf-locked Macbeth wig on -- and his corset too.

No Great Magic Fritz Leiber 1951

She had always thought of her mother as so long dead as to be no more than a nameless pinch of earth; but now it occurred to her that the once-young woman might be alive, and wrinkled and elf-locked like the woman she had sometimes seen in the door of the brown house that Lucius Harney wanted to draw.

Summer; a novel 1917

She had always thought of her mother as so long dead as to be no more than a nameless pinch of earth; but now it occurred to her that the once-young woman might be alive, and wrinkled and elf-locked like the woman she had sometimes seen in the door of the brown house that Lucius Harney wanted to draw.

Summer Edith Wharton 1899

When his wife was but newly dead, and his Janet just a smart elf-locked lassie running to and from the school, Gavin got too much in the way of

Stories by English Authors: Scotland (Selected by Scribners) Various 1878

Sunday had brought all to light, and the large handsome streets were beset with barefooted children, elf-locked women, and lounging, beetle-browed men, such as Lucy had only seen in the purlieus of Whittingtonia, in alleys looked into, but never entered by the civilized.

Hopes and Fears or, scenes from the life of a spinster Charlotte Mary Yonge 1862

That was my first idea on observing an elf-locked, brown-eyed boy setting his ruddy countenance against the bars.

Wuthering Heights 1847

That was my first idea on observing an elf-locked, brown-eyed boy setting his ruddy countenance against the bars.

Wuthering Heights Emily Bront�� 1833