fairies
Meaning
of Fairy
Source: Webster's dictionarySynonyms
Phrases with the word
Examples
About himself, Dawkins continues, "I am agnostic only to the extent that I am agnostic about fairies at the bottom of the garden."
According to Maurice Hunt, Chair of the English Department at Baylor University, the blurring of the identities of fantasy and reality makes possible “that pleasing, narcotic dreaminess associated with the fairies of the play”.
After her son grows up, she visits him on Earth, but she is mistaken for his lover, since fairies perpetually appear young and beautiful.
Appearances in the play The audience is introduced to Puck in Act 2 Scene 1 when one of Titania 's fairies encounters Puck and he replies: Thou speak'st aright; I am that merry wanderer of the night.
Because Frances and Elsie insisted that the fairies would not show themselves if others were watching, Elsie's mother was persuaded to visit her sister's for tea, leaving the girls alone.
As she prepares to execute Iolanthe, the Queen learns that the rest of the fairies have chosen husbands from among the peers, thus also incurring death sentences but the Queen blanches at the prospect of slaughtering all of them.