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Through its repeated impression of the idea of fairyhood it may implant in the child a desire which may fructify into that pure, generous, disinterested kindness and love of the grown-up, which aims to play fairy to another, with sincere altruism to make appear before his eyes his heart's desire, or in a twinkling to cause what hitherto seemed impossible.
A Study of Fairy Tales Laura F. Kready
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That other, which he displays, with mock emphasis, of restitution to the downtrodden fairyhood, is an exotic, fair and slight bud, grafted into the sturdier indigenous stock.
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 56, No. 345, July, 1844 Various
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The 'elf' is flourishing in all good fairyhood, with a scarlet rose leaf on each cheek.
The Letters of Elizabeth Barrett Browning Browning, Elizabeth B 1898
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She had bravely striven to keep her fairyhood, and in the battle of wits, had lost.
Welsh Fairy Tales William Elliot Griffis 1885
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The 'elf' is flourishing in all good fairyhood, with a scarlet rose leaf on each cheek.
The Letters of Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Volume II Elizabeth Barrett Browning 1833
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