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She had "a form that was fashioned as light as a fay's, a complexion of the clearest and lightest olive; eyes large, deep-set, and dazzling, of the finest Italian brown; and a profusion of silken tresses black as the raven's wing."
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"But the description of the fay's charmer is your portrait," he replied, in a low tone:
Nature's Serial Story Edward Payson Roe 1863
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And a hand fit a fay's wand to wave, -- white and airy;
Lucile Owen Meredith 1861
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By nature's liberal hand for fay's fantastic tread.
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A certain king accomplished the watching, and wished to have the fay's love.
Character Sketches of Romance, Fiction and the Drama, Vol. 1 A Revised American Edition of the Reader's Handbook Ebenezer Cobham Brewer 1853
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The next time I saw her her cheek was glowing, her eye sparkling, her step light as a fay's on a moonbeam, and her smile all radiance and joy; while Lewis stood, not dancing with her, but gazing on her, and she knew that it was so.
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If you still don't believe me, start searching throw fay's twitter page and you can see for yourself.
Comments for FanGraphs Baseball My echo 2010
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He takes the Boldnefs to contradict our Generals Letter which fay's, that Orders were given for the at - tack about Noon, whereas there was no mention made of any luch defign to the Dutch Generals till dt in the Evening.
A letter to the author of The memorial of the state of England 1705
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Without the features of a regular beauty, she was rich in personal attractions; "a form that was fashioned as light as a fay's;" a complexion of the clearest and lightest olive; {p. 247} eyes large, deep-set and dazzling, of the finest Italian brown; and a profusion of silken tresses, black as the raven's wing; her address hovering between the reserve of a pretty young Englishwoman who has not mingled largely in general society, and a certain natural archness and gayety that suited well with the accompaniment of a French accent.
Memoirs of the Life of Sir Walter Scott, Volume I (of 10) 1824
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