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Theirs is an element of exquisite magical fairy-land, with dainty beings moving about in it, who can express beauty, tragedy and tenderness.
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Theirs is an element of exquisite magical fairy-land, with dainty beings moving about in it, who can express beauty, tragedy and tenderness.
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When fairies want to take a person away from this world into fairy-land, the Irish say that they make the person melancholy, tired of life.
FALSE MERMAID ERIN HART 2010
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When fairies want to take a person away from this world into fairy-land, the Irish say that they make the person melancholy, tired of life.
FALSE MERMAID ERIN HART 2010
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Designer Francis O'Connor's chief conceit is to line his minimal set with mirrors, so the audience sees itself reflected, until we're distracted by hundreds of light bulbs descending for a magical, twinkling fairy-land.
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His medieval business, supplemented by the monsters and the oddities, and the pleasant creatures from fairy-land, is finer to look at than the poor fantastic inventions and performances of the reveling rabble of the priest's day, and serves quite as well, perhaps, to emphasize the day and admonish men that the grace-line between the worldly season and the holy one is reached.
Mark Twain on Mardi Gras Victoria Janssen 2009
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The garden looked like fairy-land; the queen enjoyed all these splendours, which were hers, and her grace and kindness and delicate thoughtfulness added to them.
Archive 2009-08-01 elena maria vidal 2009
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The garden looked like fairy-land; the queen enjoyed all these splendours, which were hers, and her grace and kindness and delicate thoughtfulness added to them.
La Comtesse du Nord elena maria vidal 2009
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The profusion of rare flowers which filled the hall, the wreathes of roses which artfully concealed the balustrades, hanging in careless beauty, sent forth the delicious perfumes of Arabia, and Matilda could almost have fancied herself in fairy-land.
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I know little apology for troubling you with these things, excepting the desire to commemorate a delightful evening, and a wish to encourage you to shake off that modest diffidence which makes you afraid of being supposed connected with the fairy-land of delusive fiction.
The Monastery 2008
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