| 单词 | fairy story |
| 例句 | Ophie wasn’t sure what she would do if Mama once again chided her for being too dreamy and making up fairy stories. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z This is a story on the level of the fairy story. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z “Yes! And so many of them! Like something from a fairy story....” The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z It was as if he really had tumbled headfirst into a book of fairy stories, and all he wanted to do was share it with Blink. The Marvels 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z I went on to tell him about my years before Mother died, games with Mother and Mandy, the taste of Tonic, listening to fairy stories. Ella Enchanted 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z Seem like now that Robert was gone, I’d feel better, but I was feeling like a fairy story and the children heading into the dark woods. Girls Like Us 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z “This is sort of a fairy story — I’d never done anything onstage in my life, but I wrote to Britten and I said, ‘I think I am eminently suited to the role of Oberon.’” James Bowman, Who Helped Resurrect the Countertenor, Dies at 81 2023-04-07T04:00:00Z It is sometimes a little too folksy and fairy story, but contemporary strangeness wins out, and it is throughout something to behold. TV Picks: 'Powerless,' 'Craft,' 'Who,' 'PuppyCat,' 'Garden Wall' 2014-10-31T04:00:00Z This isn't a big show, but it is a satisfying one, rescuing the fairy story from the finger-wagging of the Victorian nursery and the sugar coatings of Disney. The Girl With the Iron Claws ? review 2011-08-25T16:59:49Z Even if their history is a fairy story, it would be hard to deny the strength of their songs, which are reminscent of two female Roy Orbisons performing the Pretenders' sublime I Go to Sleep. First sight: The Pierces 2010-10-26T21:59:00Z Goodness always triumphed over evil in her plots which were often based on traditional fairy stories. Obituary: Shirley Temple 2014-02-11T10:31:05Z The screenings mark the bicentenary of the first publication of the Brothers Grimm stories, while acknowledging that popular fairy stories mainly derive from centuries-old European folklore that predates the Grimms. Fairytale films are in fashion – but can Hollywood deliver a happy ending? 2012-11-09T12:25:40Z It felt “like a fairy story,” she replied. Jenny Diski’s Way of Seeing Beyond the Story 2016-06-28T04:00:00Z With no evident documentation of around 100 years of a family business, it felt as though part of my forebears' lives was simply a fairy story. Family life 2012-08-24T23:05:04Z Likewise, she tracks "our robust and lovely fairy stories" through the centuries, observing how they shift emphasis in different eras, becoming increasingly pruned and pious. Gossip from the Forest by Sara Maitland – review 2012-10-27T23:25:11Z Goodness always triumphed over evil in her plots, which were often based on traditional fairy stories. Obituary: Shirley Temple 2014-02-11T12:58:42Z Such faith, of course, is a central dynamic in fairy stories, as it is in self-help books and inspirational fiction. ‘Into the Woods,’ Stripped Down by Fiasco Theater 2015-01-22T05:00:00Z No one believed that kind of fairy story, least of all his mother and sister. Norris Church Mailer obituary 2010-12-07T18:30:00Z Hans Andersen did not write impersonal fairy stories of this kind, or not often – he wrote nuanced stories with characters, personalities and feelings in them, authored stories, works of the imagination. Ragnar?k: the doom of the gods 2011-08-05T21:55:10Z But hold on: This is a book by Black, so it’s not the pretty fairy story you might imagine. Secrets, Lies and a Murder (or Three) in the Latest Y.A. Crossover Novels 2018-03-09T05:00:00Z "It is a wonderful fairy story and the award is going to a very talented and deserving winner." The Mountaintop is surprise winner at Olivier awards 2010-03-21T22:00:00Z "It is like a fairy story, a bit." Fuck Buttons, the kings of noise 2013-07-19T13:00:00Z So, as in all good fairy stories, it was the court jester who solved the problem, not without some slight deception but to the satisfaction of the Princess Lenore. When William Faulkner and Langston Hughes Wrote Children’s Books 2021-10-21T04:00:00Z Joshua Marston's The Forgiveness of Blood is about an Albanian family locked in a feud, while French director Michel Ocelot will debut 3D fairy story Tales of the Night. Berlin film festival to honour jailed Iranian director Jafar Panahi 2011-01-19T12:00:00Z For psychologist Bruno Bettelheim, the scary and unsettling aspects of fairy stories are vital. Fairytale films are in fashion – but can Hollywood deliver a happy ending? 2012-11-09T12:25:40Z However, the film's success is not only due to its appeal to British people's reactionary need for reassuring fairy stories around monarchy and class. Letters: Cinematic myths and historical facts 2011-02-05T00:05:50Z But this was, in truth, no more embarrassing than her film, which follows a precocious six-year-old princess through a montage of fairy stories. 370 empty seats for Catherine Breillat 2010-09-07T21:30:00Z But that's changing now that dance is on TV a lot more – people are realising that ballet isn't just a really long evening with people in tutus and tights telling fairy stories. Portrait of the artist: Edward Watson, dancer 2010-03-22T23:00:00Z Such fairy stories usually end up with mortgaging your first-born to a witch, but we are happy to talk to any wise woman, fox, crow, rowan tree or frog we meet on the journey. Our campaign to save Darlington arts centre 2011-01-28T12:30:41Z “Fashion breeds such extreme characters, and those caricatures translate so easily into fairy stories,” she said. Lacroix and Blahnik Star in Fashion Fairy Tales 2012-02-29T18:45:55Z And he can be quite passionate on the subject: he’s that belief in Heaven or an afterlife “is a fairy story for people afraid of the dark.” Eight areligious scientists who changed the world 2012-08-21T13:40:00Z As a nation, our children are brought up reading fairy stories, and we associate heels with transformation. High heels and their perennial appeal: why pain seems a small price to pay 2012-07-21T14:48:19Z Until then, fairy stories had come to me via Disney, and were rather cosy affairs. The great books giveaway 2011-03-04T11:19:03Z On both sides of the Atlantic, we're brought up with fairy stories and princes and princesses and living happily ever after. Royal-crazy Yanks in London in BBC's 'Royally Mad' 2011-04-06T13:29:14Z In the end it’s just a fairy story, really. 'Flashdance' at 40: Adrian Lyne's films are in again. Just don't call them 'erotic thrillers' 2023-04-13T04:00:00Z One excited listener wrote: "I first clapped the phones to my ears, a recitation was in progress, and then a voice announced 'Now, children, listen to this lovely fairy story'." Mystery of BBC radio's first broadcasts revealed 100 years on 2022-11-13T05:00:00Z McKay notes that Tolkien emerged from World War I with a complex fairy story, unlike many of his literary peers who were writing about wastelands and darkness. Ambitious ‘Lord of the Rings’ prequel hopes to slay dragons 2022-08-31T04:00:00Z On the one side, the fairy story of this season’s Champions League, the sole remaining Italian club in the competition with their annual revenues of €188.6m. Champions League quarter-finals: tie-by-tie analysis and verdicts | Jonathan Wilson 2020-08-10T04:00:00Z A brilliant critique of totalitarianism masquerading as a “fairy story,” the novel chronicles a revolution launched by the animals of Manor Farm against its cruel owner, Mr. Jones. Opinion | The Book That Changed My Life 2020-01-18T05:00:00Z It keys back into all those wonderful fairy stories about trapped spirits in bottles. Jeanette Winterson: ‘I didn’t see this coming’ 2019-12-22T05:00:00Z When I was a little girl, my mother used to read to me all these lovely fairy stories about an ugly duckling. ‘50s actress Kathleen Hughes recalls working with Frank Sinatra, becoming a pinup: ‘It was so unexpected’ 2019-07-17T04:00:00Z Contacted in February, Mrs Sergeyeva described claims that her husband was part of the Salisbury operation as "a fairy story". Skripal poisoning: Third man 'commanded attack' 2019-06-28T04:00:00Z You must also learn to tell different fairy stories. Observer archive: on a kibbutz, 26 May 1958 2019-05-25T04:00:00Z In some ways, obviously, the need for a simple fairy story is understandable. Tiger Woods’ Masters win was no tale of redemption – it was revenge | Marina Hyde 2019-04-17T04:00:00Z He emphasises that he was not in southern Africa at the time it happened, and describes the idea of an attack as “fairy stories”. RAF veteran ‘admitted 1961 killing of UN secretary general’ 2019-01-12T05:00:00Z But at the same time, it can feel like a fairy story with a happy ever after ending. How free is free love? How polyamory lost its allure 2018-11-30T05:00:00Z It is deeply troubling this is allowed to go on, because people believe in fairy stories written by men a long time ago. A Pope Given to Apologies Has Nothing for Indigenous Canada 2018-04-23T04:00:00Z In 2011, his comments to the Guardian explained his stance further: “There is no heaven or afterlife for broken down computers; that is a fairy story for people afraid of the dark.” ‘I’m not afraid’: What Stephen Hawking said about God, his atheism and his own death 2018-03-14T04:00:00Z On the feature side, he is also supposed to be adding his unique twist to the classic fairy story Pinocchio. Where to see Oscar star winners next 2018-03-06T05:00:00Z But Haywood says Pin Cushion is meant to be a fairy story, with all the genre's underlying gothic horror. Lily Newmark finds bullying 'closure' 2018-02-24T05:00:00Z But this isn’t some fairy story about a lonely troll – it’s the much weirder tale of a group of African dwarf crocodiles that are adapting to life in pitch-darkness. Orange cave crocodiles may be mutating into new species 2018-01-29T05:00:00Z Adams’s next leap forward came with the Disney hit “Enchanted,” which depends entirely on her to transform a high concept — a cartoon princess becomes human — into a delightful fairy story. The Versatile and Resilient Amy Adams 2017-10-16T04:00:00Z "It sounds more like a children's fairy story. I'm sure she is a charming girl, but let us stick to a man for the weather news!" 50 facts about Radio 1 & 2 as they turn 50 2017-09-29T04:00:00Z Her next book will be a collection of retellings of fairy stories and myths, and she is thinking about a London story too. Lucy Hughes-Hallett: ‘Here I am, late in life. I wanted to write a novel all that time’ 2017-05-13T04:00:00Z If catastrophe born of farcical obtuseness awaits – how else to depict it but as a fairy story? The riddle of Donald Trump: how a man of few words reached the pinnacle of power 2017-04-08T04:00:00Z “This Beautiful Fantastic” is a sentimental English romantic dramedy with the tone and feel of a real-life fairy story, which makes it suitable for kids. The new ‘Beauty and the Beast’ will appeal to even very young viewers 2017-03-16T04:00:00Z This is the nature of fairy stories, magical transformations. Leicester City getting rid of Claudio Ranieri now is hardly madness | Barney Ronay 2017-02-24T05:00:00Z Sceptics, heathens, and Stephen Hawking might say: well, you know, because heaven is a fairy story. Heaven has 'extreme vetting'? When Republicans legislate from the Bible | Arwa Mahdawi 2017-02-22T05:00:00Z Kaiser Family Foundation is cited extensively in this op-ed, which is a Good Thing.I wish the various people lying, telling fairy stories,... Health Care Deserves More Attention on the Campaign Trail 2016-09-23T04:00:00Z Children ages 2 to 8 are the target audience for Midsummer Magic, a puppet theater rendition of the fairy story from Shakespeare’s “A Midsummer Night’s Dream,” by the new troupe Shakespeare for the Young. What’s on tap in children’s theater this summer: Puppets and pirates 2016-07-21T04:00:00Z “We’ve been brought up with these fairy stories and Disney being, like, ‘happily ever after,’ so we look for that magic when we’re adults,” she says. Emilia Clarke trades dragons for tragedy in the romantic weepie 'Me Before You' 2016-06-03T04:00:00Z We were here inspired by ancient chronicles which many have written off as fairy stories. New evidence of Viking life in America? - BBC News 2016-03-31T04:00:00Z "It was exceptional really. It was like a fairy story and they don't often happen." Piggott on Frankel and fairytales 2015-09-11T04:00:00Z "I would like to hear more information based on the facts. Rather than fairy stories created and sold to the public," she says. Election extremes: Youngest, oldest, richest, poorest - BBC News 2015-04-23T04:00:00Z Mr Barnes was presented with the cheque earlier this month and described it as "absolutely like a fairy story". Man admits disabled pensioner attack 2015-02-24T05:00:00Z The looks continued in this haunted theme - that channeled 18th century children’s fairy stories. Stars attend Gaultier’s final ready-to-wear show 2014-09-27T04:00:00Z These are games about individuals, but also about group dynamics – whether in the fraying survivors of a zombie apocalypse or the squabbling community of undercover fairy story characters in New York City. 'The Walking Dead: Season 2' Review: No Going Back 2014-08-28T04:00:00Z In the course of our conversation he says Frankie Dettori is the best, Frankel isn't, current jockeys are better than previous generations, and recalls his own "fairy story" comeback 25 years ago. Piggott on Frankel and fairytales 2015-09-11T04:00:00Z As in all fairy stories worth their poisoned apples this one, of course, required a wicked queen. Phone-hacking trial: now it's over, has anything really changed? 2014-06-28T04:00:00Z That is no fairy story, made to be brushed aside. Richard Dawkins's lack of sympathy for those who cling to religion is a shame 2014-06-06T04:00:00Z Besides, fairy stories exist in a peculiar medieval realm. The Mr Men inhabit a godless universe. It's a brutal existence 2014-06-02T04:00:00Z “It always creates new realities. It always creates, above all, its own different problems. Only the fairy story ends, ‘They lived happily ever after.’” The Right and Wrong Way to Handle Success 2014-02-26T11:51:20Z In any fairy story you need a monster, and in this case it's "the markets": unseen, but seemingly all-powerful. Forget Europe – the markets hold the real unaccountable power 2013-01-24T19:30:01Z In the early days the confected tales of infidelity and kiss and tell, the production-line creation and destruction of celebrities supplied by the soaps or sports or reality TV, were known as fairy stories. Phone-hacking trial: now it's over, has anything really changed? 2014-06-28T04:00:00Z I should be sorry if all my fairy stories ended with so little dignity: but— "These our actors, As I foretold you, were all spirits, and Are melted into air—into thin air." Fairy Legends and Traditions of The South of Ireland 2012-05-22T15:16:54.237Z And are we not ready to confess that those fairy stories possessed a special charm—an interest which even reality itself hardly awakens? The Cambrian Sketch-Book Tales, Scenes, and Legends of Wild Wales 2012-04-27T02:00:33.040Z But you wouldn't tell a fairy story, because you said you didn't want things I couldn't tell mother! A Pilgrim Maid A Story of Plymouth Colony in 1620 2012-04-02T02:00:24.090Z Photograph: Tristram Kenton Listening to economics being discussed in the media is like being read a fairy story. Forget Europe – the markets hold the real unaccountable power 2013-01-24T19:30:01Z We never cease to be amazed at the wonderful luck which raised Napoleon from the dust to the throne of the world, as if it were a romance or a fairy story. Walks in Rome 2012-03-31T02:00:36.010Z The author of "Little Lord Fauntleroy" declared this book to be the best fairy story ever written. Held by Chinese Brigands 2012-03-26T02:00:40.573Z In the fairy story of Kilmeny in this work Hogg seems completely transformed; he is absorbed in the ideal and supernatural, and writes under direct and immediate inspiration. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 5 "Hinduism" to "Home, Earls of" 2012-03-25T02:00:05.717Z But that was a fairy story, don't you see? A Pilgrim Maid A Story of Plymouth Colony in 1620 2012-04-02T02:00:24.090Z Well, that makes it easy to tell a fairy story from the other kinds, and I never knew exactly how before. Insect Stories 2012-03-21T02:00:36.600Z But Michael answered at once, for he had always loved fairy stories, that he remembered the one of the magic table quite distinctly. Fairies Afield 2012-03-18T02:00:20.790Z A charming series of fairy stories by one of the very few modern writers whose work compares with the classics of fairy-tale literature such as Grimm and Perrault. Held by Chinese Brigands 2012-03-26T02:00:40.573Z "Goodness me!" said Trot; "if that isn't a fairy story I never heard one." Sky Island Being the Further Exciting Adventures of Trot and Cap'n Bill after Their Visit to the Sea Fairies 2012-03-17T02:01:04.773Z In fairy stories they tell about a ring which makes one invisible; I would give my crown to have such a ring as that. The Dramas of Victor Hugo: Mary Tudor, Marion de Lorme, Esmeralda 2012-03-15T02:00:28.817Z "That is a fairy story," said Mary, "and I thought we were not going to read any more fairy stories now that I am grown up." Insect Stories 2012-03-21T02:00:36.600Z It is wonderfully fresh and suggestive, and in the mere capacity of a lot of fairy stories it ought to have a big circulation. Creation Myths of Primitive America In relation to the Religious History and Mental Development of Mankind 2012-03-13T02:00:25.633Z In fact the negro’s fairy stories centre on heaven; the children’s definitions of heaven consisted entirely of pictures of splendor and glory. Religious Folk-Songs of the Southern Negroes 2012-03-09T03:00:17.743Z “If I were a fellow in a fairy story book I might find a bag of gold,” he mused. First at the North Pole Two Boys in the Arctic Circle 2012-02-27T03:00:16.033Z We need the fairy stories neither of the priests, nor of the Liberals, nor of the Kautskians. Dictatorship vs. Democracy (Terrorism and Communism) 2012-02-27T03:00:14.477Z "That isn't an argument, it's a sort of fairy story." Comrade Yetta 2012-02-15T03:00:24.213Z There are always plenty of kings in fairy stories, but there don’t seem to be any round here. Black-Eyed Susan 2012-02-13T03:00:16.587Z So does a fairy story, or an animated cartoon. Charlie Brooker: The true value of money ? or why you can't fart a crashing plane back into the sky 2012-02-12T21:00:03Z But let's not think how close this fairy story came to remaining untold. The Joy of Six: Sportsmanship 2012-02-10T11:58:33Z I used to like the noise at times; it was companionable and told me fairy stories of blazing firesides. Miranda of the Balcony A Story 2012-01-28T03:00:24.760Z You're a sort of mediævalist, living in a realm of romance and fairy stories—ruled over by your instinctive sense of life. Comrade Yetta 2012-02-15T03:00:24.213Z "When I told Baba fairy stories, the prince used to have a curious family resemblance to you," she answered. Christina 2012-01-16T03:00:06.507Z “Yes,” said Tom, “it certainly sounds like a fairy story.” Bert Wilson at the Wheel 2012-01-14T03:00:19.827Z All the fairy stories of my childhood came back to my memory, and assumed a shape in the reality of my surroundings. Empires and Emperors of Russia, China, Korea, and Japan Notes and Recollections by Monsignor Count Vay de Vaya and Luskod 2012-01-08T03:00:16.523Z As if somebody had tried to tell him a fairy story. Hooded Detective, Volume III No. 2, January, 1942 2012-01-04T03:00:28.750Z Paulding was an enthusiastic nature lover, and the struggles and adventures of the myriad animals of the forest and the lake which he pointed out were like enchanting fairy stories. Comrade Yetta 2012-02-15T03:00:24.213Z This extraordinary person, whose career reads like a fairy story, was at this time at the height of his fame. Henrietta Maria 2011-12-15T03:00:14.290Z Was it a joke, a parable, a fairy story? Bert Wilson at the Wheel 2012-01-14T03:00:19.827Z The spectacles and games were precisely such as are related in the fairy story. The Memoirs of Count Carlo Gozzi; Volume the First 2011-12-12T03:00:27.507Z Here, strange to say, is the note of pathos which we hear again and again in the volume of fairy stories which many men look upon as Oscar Wilde's best and most characteristic prose work. Oscar Wilde 2011-12-10T03:00:14.120Z “Well, but that does sound rather like a fairy story, now doesn’t it?” said Frederica, moved from her usual indifference by the unwonted sight of the nurse’s indignation. Frederica and her Guardians The Perils of Orphanhood 2011-12-05T03:00:50.157Z It seems to me as completely unproven as any other fairy story, or myth, or legend—for example, the seven infernos of Dante, and the elaborate and complicated torments that are suffered there. The Book of Life 2011-11-25T03:00:13.343Z Well, two books half done, nine stories simmering, and stacks of fairy stories moulding on the shelf. Louisa May Alcott : Her Life, Letters, and Journals 2011-11-20T03:00:14.840Z I wish I had seen the coronation of George V. Every fairy story I had ever read would suddenly have become real. Business English A Practice Book 2011-11-19T03:00:25.507Z Some have said that there are no fairy stories like Oscar Wilde's, but Hans Andersen had written before him, and Charles Kingsley's "Water Babies" was published long before "The Happy Prince." Oscar Wilde 2011-12-10T03:00:14.120Z I do not remember this period, of course, but my mother often told me about it later, and I am sure she was not telling a fairy story. Memoirs of an American Prima Donna 2011-11-17T03:00:32.600Z "Black bread" is the fairy story name for bread made of the whole grain. The Book of Life 2011-11-25T03:00:13.343Z And it all came true, like the conclusion of a fairy story; for good fairies had been busy at work for many years preparing the way. Louisa May Alcott : Her Life, Letters, and Journals 2011-11-20T03:00:14.840Z The work of both these biologists is as fascinating as the most beautiful fairy-tale, but it is probably the creation of a lively and fertile imagination, just as the fairy story is. Morals and the Evolution of Man 2011-11-14T03:00:18.930Z The form which the prose tale took at this period was that of the fairy story. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 11, Slice 2 "French Literature" to "Frost, William" 2011-10-14T02:00:26.280Z For then the spell will break, and I will vanish like the apparitions in the fairy stories. Mavis of Green Hill 2011-10-12T02:00:41.317Z And so the hours flew by, in a wonder of loveliness, fairy story, and fun. The Rainbow Book Tales of Fun & Fancy 2011-09-18T02:00:22.467Z A boy at heart, adoring tricks, games and fairy stories, he did not want to be recalled to the things of earth. Edgar Saltus: The Man 2011-09-13T02:00:36.953Z When he grew sleepy, she told him fairy stories. Stories of Great Musicians 2011-09-10T02:00:28.157Z Once upon a time, as the fairy stories begin, my good ship M— had arrived at Portsmouth after a long commission of cruising along the shores of Eastern Africa and round India. Born to Wander A Boy's Book of Nomadic Adventures 2011-08-31T02:01:32.837Z If you go to headquarters with any tales against us, remember you are one and we are seventeen who will act as one in denying your fairy stories. Marjorie Dean College Junior 2011-08-27T02:00:22.827Z With the various lore thus collected, supplemented by the pretty conceits of Hans Andersen and other writers of fairy stories, the young inquirer has to do his best. Children's Ways 2011-08-11T02:00:16.473Z “Only it’s better than a fairy story—it’s real!” Carolyn of the Corners 2011-08-10T02:00:14.997Z Four of the operas written in Switzerland tell the old fairy story of the gold hidden at the bottom of the Rhine. Stories of Great Musicians 2011-09-10T02:00:28.157Z Perhaps I need not; I wonder why I thought there was a must in the matter; why may I not be happy and helpful without ending as good little girls do in fairy stories? Tessa Wadsworth's Discipline A Story of the Development of a Young Girl's Life 2011-08-09T02:00:30.317Z It is rarely that fairy stories by such important authors come together. The Village of Youth and Other Fairy Tales 2011-08-06T02:00:04.530Z “Sounds like a fairy story,” remarked his son skeptically. The Motion Picture Chums at Seaside Park The Rival Photo Theatres of the Boardwalk 2011-08-05T02:00:44.900Z Everybody has been put to sleep, just like in a fairy story. Carolyn of the Corners 2011-08-10T02:00:14.997Z “I declare, Jasper, it is almost as good as a fairy story.” A Very Naughty Girl 2011-07-27T02:00:30.947Z With great difficulty I have secured copies of a number of fairy stories edited by him and published in Japan by T. Hasegawa, Tōkyō, in a style beautiful and dainty beyond superlatives. Concerning Lafcadio Hearn With a Bibliography by Laura Stedman 2011-07-20T02:00:12.413Z The old fairy story which charmed us in childhood ended with “And they were married and lived happy ever after.” The Teacher Essays and Addresses on Education 2011-07-19T02:00:17.220Z We might be the Musicians of Bremen, as one reads in the beautifully fairy story.” Molly Brown's College Friends 2011-07-16T02:00:15.700Z Some people object to allegories and fairy stories for children, but I am never afraid of them if they are true to nature, truly imaginative, or if the impossible is occasionally caught a glimpse of. Guide to the Kindergarten and Intermediate Class and Moral Culture of Infancy. 2011-06-30T02:00:25.950Z He went over and over very frequently the last few words—"a home for Theodora!" and they sung, and swung, and shone in his heart, and made his life a fairy story. A Reconstructed Marriage 2011-06-23T02:00:23.143Z Now let us take the roof off, as is done in fairy stories about other charms. The Disturbing Charm 2011-06-17T02:00:21.077Z I’m most glad the fairy stories ain’t true; for if things did happen like what’s in the book, maybe you’d turn into a frog, and then, Tabby, I couldn’t hug you.” Randy's Summer A Story for Girls 2011-06-16T02:00:16.550Z "Oh, a fairy story, about flowers, and birds, and people—a story like mamma used to tell." If Any Man Sin 2011-06-12T02:00:05.887Z “We aren’t going to get jobs right away, unless this turns out more of a fairy story than any I’ve read.” Two Boys of the Battleship or For the Honor of Uncle Sam 2011-06-07T02:00:13.313Z And so, out of the materials that Gull had given him, Mr. Kingsley pleased his little daughter by weaving a wonderful modern fairy story. Nearly Bedtime Five Short Stories for the Little Ones 2011-06-02T02:00:26.960Z It’s like the enchanted garden in the French fairy story, isn’t it, Miss Sallie? The Automobile Girls at Newport Watching the Summer Parade 2011-06-01T02:00:25.733Z I know you think it funny that I can like fairy stories almost as well as Prue does; but, truly, Prue does not tell them straight. Randy's Summer A Story for Girls 2011-06-16T02:00:16.550Z The latter slipped away right after dinner, leaving the little girls listening to one of Barnabetta’s fairy stories—this time about The Horse That Made a House for the Birds. The Corner House Girls' Odd Find Where they made it, and What the Strange Discovery led to 2011-05-31T02:00:34.950Z “I believe you were going to entertain us, I suppose with a fairy story,” began one of the girls, still keeping her finger between the covers of Little Women. The Camp Fire Girls' Careers 2011-05-27T02:00:15.330Z Sounds like a fairy story, but those things happen. Nan Sherwood on the Mexican Border 2011-05-26T02:00:20.467Z Fokine elaborated the scenario, having worked at his choreography with burning devotion, the more so because he had fallen in love with the Russian fairy story. An Autobiography 2011-05-21T02:00:10.850Z If you have read Stephen Hawking’s latest pronouncement, Heaven is just “a fairy story.” No matter what Stephen Hawking says, God exists and He loves geeks 2011-05-17T15:32:19Z Oh, what a fairy story to tell the children! The Cinder Pond 2011-05-17T02:00:20.320Z He told the Guardian, “There is no heaven or afterlife for broken-down computers; that is a fairy story for people afraid of the dark.” Stephen Hawking: Heaven Is a 'Fairy Story' 2011-05-16T17:15:00Z It had seemed merely a fairy story rather more dull than usual. The Boy Grew Older 2011-05-10T02:01:01.027Z He warmly welcomed the suggestion, and I adapted a scenario from Andersen's fairy story to serve the purpose. An Autobiography 2011-05-21T02:00:10.850Z AdVoice: If you have read Stephen Hawking's latest pronouncement, Heaven is just "a fairy story." No matter what Stephen Hawking says, God exists and He loves geeks 2011-05-17T15:32:19Z Father will suggest something perfectly fine—he always does—and it will be like the end of a fairy story. Ethel Morton at Chautauqua 2011-05-04T02:00:16.097Z She's in every fairy story that ever was written; she dances through the mythologies of all races. The Siege of the Seven Suitors 2011-04-25T02:00:08.730Z In India it is otherwise: the fairy stories are addressed to the grown-up, and the fairies resemble their audience: they are grown up too. A Syrup of the Bees 2011-04-23T02:00:04.300Z In the fairy stories of Hans Andersen the folk-material was similarly used in a free and individual manner. The New Gresham Encyclopedia Volume 4, Part 3: Estremoz to Felspar 2011-04-14T02:00:59.373Z Red Riding Hood is one of a multitude of modern twists on fairy stories destined for cinemas over the next 18 months. Cry wolf 2011-04-13T05:01:52Z If that part was made up, then probably the entire tale was only a “fairy story,” told for a purpose. The Outdoor Chums on a Houseboat 2011-04-13T02:00:14.140Z "It is just like one of our fairy stories, Ted," she whispered, her face so close that the sea wind blew a damp lock of her hair across my eyes. I Walked in Arden 2011-04-10T02:00:06.137Z The fairies of Europe are children, little people: and it is to children that fairy stories are addressed. A Syrup of the Bees 2011-04-23T02:00:04.300Z THE FAT MAN—Yes, it's a beautiful, sentimental little fairy story with a ghost for the hero. Seeing Things at Night 2011-04-10T02:00:05.360Z It's a kind of fairy story besides, and partly true. Violet: A Fairy Story 2011-04-07T02:00:17.290Z If he goes on with these fairy stories he will merely measure us coolly for a slingshot. Pieces of Hate And Other Enthusiams 2011-03-28T02:00:24.120Z Much of his music shows his high regard for that writer of fairy stories. Schumann The Story of the Boy Who Made Pictures in Music 2011-03-19T02:00:10.667Z We tell them some parable or fairy story instead of telling them their faults honestly and trying to make them better. Is The Bible Worth Reading And Other Essays 2011-03-12T03:00:23.783Z I have a suspicion that Tiger was originally Lion, and that he is the Ogre of Jack the Giant-killer, and other fairy stories brought to Jamaica from England. Jamaican Song and Story Annancy stories, digging sings, ring tunes, and dancing tunes 2011-02-28T03:00:31.280Z No child ever drank in fairy stories more eagerly, and Phebe even discussed some infidel notions he had got hold of, overcoming many of his difficulties. The Little Missis 2011-02-26T03:00:44.830Z And while we are about it, a good many of the fairy stories can stand revision. Pieces of Hate And Other Enthusiams 2011-03-28T02:00:24.120Z “Unless she were a really truly fairy story bad one,” Miss Daisy insisted. Ethel Morton at Sweetbriar Lodge 2011-02-24T03:01:03.877Z Among its recent productions is a comedy by Andersen, based on a fairy story, called Hyldemöer, which has lately been performed upon the Danish stage with not very brilliant success. The International Monthly, Volume 5, No. 4, April, 1852 2011-02-23T03:00:33.760Z Some of the Uncle Remus stories would form no bad addition to the fairy stories of the world. Papers of the American Negro Academy. (The American Negro Academy. Occasional Papers, No. 18-19.) 2011-02-23T03:00:31.787Z That’s the kind of fairy story Russians are desperate to believe in. Russia's Anna Chapman Cashes In 2011-02-13T15:00:00Z Having read the fairy stories, he thinks that the thing can be done by a little courage mixed with magic. Pieces of Hate And Other Enthusiams 2011-03-28T02:00:24.120Z She doesn’t know why, except that they are always horrid in fairy stories, but she thinks this long narrow closet would be just the place to put a horrid one into to punish her.” Ethel Morton at Sweetbriar Lodge 2011-02-24T03:01:03.877Z Some good renderings of particular tales, however, may be found scattered through collections of fairy stories that have appeared. Literature for Children 2011-02-02T03:00:21.560Z The description of the wonderful success of these institutions as told by Henry W. Wolff in his People's Banks reads like a fairy story. Readings in Money and Banking Selected and Adapted 2011-02-01T03:00:14.553Z Sally’ll tell you a fairy story in play hour this afternoon.” Girl Alone 2011-01-27T03:00:36.117Z They must hear the fairy stories and the gabble of the medicine-men or conjurers, and the tales of bloody fights and brave and cunning deeds which make the histories of their tribes. Indian Stories Retold From St. Nicholas 2011-01-22T03:00:17.853Z A prize of two hundred dollars was offered for the best picture illustrating any fairy story. The Camp Fire Girls in After Years 2011-01-13T03:01:12.303Z In this book are ballads, fables, fairy stories from Grimm, Perrault, Andersen, "Arabian Nights' Entertainments," and other sources, as well as "Goody Two Shoes," selections from "Gulliver's Travels," classic myths, and other well-known stories. Literature for Children 2011-02-02T03:00:21.560Z I found Goldilocks asleep in my bed just as the little bear did in the old fairy story. The Ranch Girls in Europe 2011-01-13T03:01:01.483Z And in all fairy stories no mortal ever returns from Fairyland a day older than on entering it, no matter how many years may have elapsed. The Fairy-Faith in Celtic Countries 2011-01-06T03:00:47.543Z At Wembley, scene of the pinnacle of 's fairy story when they hoisted the in 2008, the final whistle here slammed the book shut. Portsmouth come full circle as future looks bleak 2010-05-15T17:47:00Z "Is it a fairy story you are telling me, Mademoiselle C�cile?" A Blot on the Scutcheon High on the opposite hills the old feudal castles looked to Major Jimmie like the castles he had read of in the fairy stories of his childhood. The Red Cross Girls with Pershing to Victory It needn't be a secret dream, like a child's fairy story. Manslaughter If we’d set out to make up a fairy story we couldn’t have beat this. Jessica Trent: Her Life on a Ranch "Well, sometimes fairy stories come true," she said. The Camp Fire Girls Across the Seas Then, in 1881, came his volume of collected poems, followed at intervals during the next nine or ten years by a collection of fairy stories and some essays in the leading reviews. Oscar Wilde: Art and Morality A Defence of "The Picture of Dorian Gray" To the fairy stories which embody such myths children of unnumbered generations have listened, and they demand them over and over again because they, too, are sure that they are real. The Old English Herbals Fight against it as he might—and he did fight—there were moments when memory turned the life which he had taken up so solemnly into the maddest, most fantastic fairy story. The Missioner It's getting rather like a fairy story, isn't it Carrots? Carrots: Just a Little Boy See those three rocks down there that look like 'the Big Bear, the Middle-Sized Bear and the Little Bear,' in the fairy story! The Camp Fire Girls Behind the Lines In this story Rabindranath Tagore begins with some amusing sentences about the dull, matter of fact character of modern scientific people, who cannot enjoy a fairy story without asking "Is it true?" Stories from Tagore It is more like a fairy story than literal fact. Hard Pressed It was like an episode from a fairy story, there was something so delicate, so altogether fanciful in that flying visit. The Missioner Many of the operas are beautiful big fairy stories and the little folks glory in them. Great Singers on the Art of Singing Educational Conferences with Foremost Artists Of what books children draw from a library; of the reading of history, of fairy stories, of poetry, of books of adventure. Woman's Club Work and Programs First Aid to Club Women Do you think I'd give you any fairy story about the place? An Amateur Fireman "Now I will tell you all about it," Mother Blair said, after she had read Brownie a fairy story and tucked her up for the night. The Fun of Cooking A Story for Girls and Boys Are there any dwarfs or—or creatures like in fairy stories? Five Minutes' Stories My elevation—for it seemed that at New Bristol—was like a fairy story; I presume they are telling it still. East Angels The first meeting should be given up to a broad presentation of the whole subject of folk-lore, myths, legends, fairy stories, festivals and superstitions. Woman's Club Work and Programs First Aid to Club Women Her faith in the old lady who was playing at fairy stories was complete. The Youngest Girl in the School He had, moreover, told them his history, which was quite as wonderful as many fairy stories. The Eagle's Nest There are neither houses nor ships, such as you talk about, and you are sillier than any fairy story I ever read.” The Sun Maid A Story of Fort Dearborn It was at this time that I wrote a play, "Rapunzel of the Golden Hair," based upon an old fairy story. Geraldine Farrar The Story of an American Singer Read Kipling's Puck o' Pook's Hill, the modern fairy story, and contrast with those of older date. Woman's Club Work and Programs First Aid to Club Women Her heart was thumping wildly with excitement at finding herself in the middle of a real fairy story; and when she at last stood still again, she was almost too breathless to speak. The Youngest Girl in the School Most of you have read fairy tales; well, a kind of Greek fairy story tells of some beautiful maidens, called sirens, who used to sit on some dangerous rocks, and play sweetest music. The Story of John Wesley Told to Boys and Girls It is like a fairy story, isn't it, darling? Hildegarde's Harvest But I know how you feel—it seems like a fairy story. The Giants From Outer Space Whenever he went to court to see the king and queen he was just like a prince in a fairy story. Stories Pictures Tell Book One ‘I didn’t mean to play, but it is so like a fairy story,’ she said penitently. The Youngest Girl in the School The people in the fort did not know what it meant, till Arnold came up and told them how he had won a victory without firing a shot, by a sort of fairy story. The Story of Our Country Every Child Can Read My people were not believers in fairy stories, and circumstances did not put them in my way. Favorite Fairy Tales The Childhood Choice of Representative Men and Women That must be one of those queer rolling oranges I have read about in fairy stories. Jacko and Jumpo Kinkytail The Funny Monkey Boys Very, very wonderful things do happen sometimes," she whispered, "things that are almost as wonderful as fairy stories. The Children of the Top Floor The exquisitely graceful fairy story told in the poem is too well known to need description. The Standard Cantatas Their Stories, Their Music, and Their Composers The years 1826 and 1827 saw the appearance of two succeeding annuals of fairy stories, which were everywhere received with the most enthusiastic admiration. The Marvellous History of the Shadowless Man and The Cold Heart I knew no fairy stories in my youth. Favorite Fairy Tales The Childhood Choice of Representative Men and Women They never doubted the truth of these glowing fairy stories. The Utah Batteries: A History A complete account of the muster-in, sea voyage, battles, skirmishes and barrack life of the Utah batteries, together with biographies of officers and muster-out rolls. I was only thinking of you a few moments ago, and now you turn up like the genii in the children's fairy stories. Long Live the King She will tell them dainty fairy stories—to the boys, brave deeds of valour, to strengthen their courage; to the girls, tales of unselfish and honourable wives and mothers. Japan A Record in Colour The Romans knew Salamantia, and the first notice handed down to us of the city reads like a fairy story, as though predicting future events. The Cathedrals of Northern Spain Once upon a time—that's the way all fairy stories start—I saw you. The Portal of Dreams At this same place the mendacious batterymen gathered in the warm afternoons to tell sea serpent legends and fairy stories about some great event which had never happened in the trenches. The Utah Batteries: A History A complete account of the muster-in, sea voyage, battles, skirmishes and barrack life of the Utah batteries, together with biographies of officers and muster-out rolls. “Yes, and I remember that I thought it rather silly that in a school book the plants should be spoken of as people, as if it were a fairy story.” Almost a Woman There is one fairy story which is a universal favourite with both mothers and children, and that is the story of Momotaro. Japan A Record in Colour Remember, the serious creative work you are to produce is to take the form of a fable, fairy story, or humorous essay. Vocal Expression A Class-book of Voice Training and Interpretation DEAR, long neglected, though never forgotten Custodian, I write you from fairyland, where we are living in a fairy story, the guests of a beautiful brown princess. The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 24 (of 25) In other words, he is at war with every person in the world except his son, the boy who told you such pretty fairy stories last night. Boy Scouts on the Great Divide or, The Ending of the Trail Why, mother, it sounds like a fairy story, a tale of a wonderful magic palace, doesn’t it? Almost a Woman Among popular legends of Brittany, "The Groac'h of the Isle of Lok" is peculiarly striking, but withal merely a fairy story,—the Groac'h being a first cousin at least of Undine and the Lorelei. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 16, No. 93, July, 1865 This glistening load bent down the boughs like those of a weeping-willow, and when the wind stirred the wood, the icicles struck together and rang like the silver bells in the fairy stories. Timar's Two Worlds To have you introduce me to our wealth, by the way of this unique, honeymoon program; is something very like a fairy story! Solaris Farm A Story of the Twentieth Century Playing with you is like having one’s Sunday doll all the week, or as if the princess in the fairy stories had turned into a real mortal. The Wide Awake Girls in Winsted And yet, my dear, it was only stating an actual fact, and was not, as you fancied, a fairy story. Almost a Woman Buddhas, nautch-girls, sacred white elephants, serial fairy stories, and the rest were all worth studying; but I think the chefs-d'œuvre of the two artistic centres were a peacock and a multi-coloured dragon. The Recipe for Diamonds From this moment she listened no more to his fairy stories, but avoided him as much as possible. Timar's Two Worlds It was called 'The Missing Bridge,' and was a sort of fairy story. The Spectacle Man A Story of the Missing Bridge A little girl, who came in wanting a fairy story, gave Catherine a chance to turn away and hide her amusement. The Wide Awake Girls in Winsted In a staged fairy story, like A Midsummer Night's Dream, the poet would naturally fall into couplets. An Introduction to Shakespeare But— I think I have heard of a white crow—or was it perhaps in a fairy story? Miss Mouse and Her Boys “Whew! that sounds like a fairy story, Jack,” breathed Toby, entranced. Jack Winters' Campmates I couldn’t believe it; it was so like some blame’ fairy story. The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 13 (of 25) It was like a fairy story to see all these strange inhabitants of the tropic seas. The Go Ahead Boys and the Treasure Cave Finally, the whole fairy story is the creation of Shakespeare in a Mercutio mood. An Introduction to Shakespeare You heard what she said about fairy stories.' Miss Mouse and Her Boys "She loves them," said Dotty; "she'd rather read a fairy story than go to a party, any day." Two Little Women These pretty fairy stories peep at us out of German-land through a pleasant, clear translation, and they remind us how easily the supernatural and loves to dwell in airborn castles. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 15, No. 91, May, 1865 "A pretty fairy story, my boy," the mayor commented. Seven Keys to Baldpate Now wasn't that a queer thing, children, queerer than all the fairy stories you have read? for this story is quite true, you must know! Fairy Tales from the German Forests Like a novelette, she had been going to add, but she remembered the way the Beggar Man had said that he did not like the expression, and changed it to "a fairy story" instead. The Beggar Man Straight to the bookshelves she went, and pointed to a set of fairy stories. Two Little Women It was just like living out a fairy story. Exit Betty "If you think I'm going to be shook off by any fairy story like that," said the mayor of Reuton "you're a child with all a child's touching faith." Seven Keys to Baldpate Or are you like the boy in the kindergarten to whom I was telling a fairy story and who interrupted me contemptuously with the remark: "Fairies don't exist!" Fairy Tales from the German Forests Good fairy stories are a source of everlasting joy and delight. Ringan Gilhaize or The Covenanters But will you not run dry of fairy stories? The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 25 (of 25) It was like a fairy story, having a strange bride lying on her bed, and everything a perfect mystery about her. Exit Betty The actual fairy story becomes, little by little, more complete—the painters of the fifteenth century work, little guessing it, are the precursors of Walter Crane. Renaissance Fancies and Studies Being a Sequel to Euphorion A queer jumble of all the fairy stories that the boy knew, passed through his head as he sat on the lawn, day-dreaming, while his kite flapped its wings on the ground beside him. Fairy Tales from the German Forests This thought finds expression in the old fairy stories of "The Search after the Fountain of Youth." Pedagogics as a System The ordinary fairy stories told to children are bits of actual Teutonic mythology, and should be related with a grave, absolute simplicity and naivete. Writings in the United Amateur, 1915-1922 What a fairy story the history of Harvey would be if it should be written only as it was. In the Heart of a Fool And she told him, too, endless fairy stories about witches and enchanters, and the good folk who danced at night on the greenswards at home. Two Maiden Aunts It seemed to her like a wonderful dream, or like one of the fairy stories that her old grandmother had so often narrated to her. Fairy Tales from the German Forests As the tale progressed the big man hitched farther and farther forward in his chair, his expression that of a little child who proposes to miss no syllable of a fascinating fairy story. The Monk of Hambleton "The Blind Prince," by Henriette Ziegfeld, is an excellent juvenile tale involving a fairy story. Writings in the United Amateur, 1915-1922 He would watch them at their games, try to play with them himself in a pathetic, old-fashioned way, telling them fairy stories of an elder and a grimmer day than ours. In the Heart of a Fool But also there were pleasanter things than these: there were cupboards full of sweets, shelves of picture books and fairy stories, and a great store of toys. The Flamp, The Ameliorator, and The Schoolboy's Apprentice Mart turned, and, with misty eyes and a voice choked with happiness, said: "Well, darlin', we have it now—the palace of the fairy stories." Money Magic A Novel I'd always liked fairy stories when I was little and when I discovered there were grown-up ones, too, like those in Unknown Worlds and the old Weird Tales, I read them, too. The Sound of Silence The elder sister took up a fairy story and looked at it, and put it down again. Very Short Stories and Verses For Children But, as in the old fairy story, no one had reckoned on the machinations of the bad fairy who soon presented herself in the form of the girl's grandmother. Our Moslem Sisters A Cry of Need from Lands of Darkness Interpreted by Those Who Heard It I declare, I 'most think I've got into the middle of a fairy story somewhere. What She Could It was a larger and more absorbing fairy story than any in the Arabian Nights. Money Magic A Novel I want him to know how my soul esteems The fairy stories of Andersen, And the glad translations of all the themes Of the hearts of boyish men. Nye and Riley's Wit and Humor (Poems and Yarns) No little Gradgrind child had ever seen a face in the moon, or learned Mother Goose or listened to fairy stories, or read The Arabian Nights. Tales from Dickens She has made the yellow house like a fairy story––evergreens, red leaves and berries hanging about, and all the dogs with red-ribbon collars. At the Crossroads "There is no fairy story about that dynamite,—that, at least, is both practical and modern." Mlle. Fouchette A Novel of French Life Bertrand found Betty bending closely over a drawing for which she had no model, but which was intended to illustrate a fairy story. The Eye of Dread Those had made up the beautiful days that they spent with her, roaming the woods and meadows, picking dandelions and violets, and playing fairy stories. Cloudy Jewel For the same reason I must reluctantly pass over the abundant evidence of mother-right that is furnished in folk-lore, in heroic legends, and in the fairy stories of our children. The Truth About Woman It's a long time since I fell for any fairy stories. Astounding Stories of Super-Science, November, 1930 It is told to us in the fairy story of the Sleeping Princess—a story which is found in the folk-lore of every country of the globe. Sex--The Unknown Quantity The Spiritual Function of Sex You remember various fairy stories about why the sea is salt. Common Science Elsa, with all her luxury and alluring feminine charms, seemed to cast a spell that bound him helpless like the music in the fairy stories. The Harbor of Doubt “Not the half of your Kingdom—like the Royal men in fairy stories?” The Princess Virginia Then he danced in front of her, swung his arms like a jumping-jack, and told some outlandish fairy story from the stock that no one had ever suspected he possessed. A Waif of the Mountains And so I was almost as pleased as the children, when I saw, from its quaint and grotesque pictures, that their treasure-trove was really a book of real old-fashioned fairy stories. Our Young Folks, Vol 1, No. 1 An Illustrated Magazine Now, Mr. Timmy Timmens and his wife, being mighty simple old people, were fond of reading fairy stories, and believed entirely in every word of them. Funny Little Socks Being the Fourth Book “Well,” he repeated after her, “when you tipped the hat back I thought in a wink of all the fairy stories of transformation I used to hear told by the old folks in Ireland.” The Bondwoman As he stood pen in hand, suddenly he found himself recalling a fairy story which he had never tired of reading in his childhood. The Princess Virginia What I write will sound like some fairy story, I fear, to my people at home. The Soul of a People Now, my dear friend, you know that my youngsters have a most insatiate appetite for, and a most thorough appreciation of, real fairy stories, as they call them. Our Young Folks, Vol 1, No. 1 An Illustrated Magazine Indeed, in reading the common fairy stories one frequently comes across distinct indications that it is with this class that we are dealing. Clairvoyance “Do you really mean that you believe fairy stories?” The Bondwoman That was beautiful good fortune—all of a part of the amazing fairy story of the New World. . . . The Innocent Adventuress "I think it comes out of a fairy story or something like that," Billy Kasker said. Be It Ever Thus Isn't that a pretty fairy story? and almost every word of it is true. Punch or the London Charivari, Vol. 147, July 8, 1914 I didn’t know that boys liked fairy stories.” David Dunne A Romance of the Middle West When my brother reads the fairy stories in Young People, he says he would like to wade the Atlantic Ocean, and put a few whales in his pocket for his minnow tank. Harper's Young People, July 27, 1880 An Illustrated Weekly Much as it grieves me to tell you so, Little cares she for its ancient glory, For Louie is deep in—a fairy story! Harper's Young People, July 13, 1880 An Illustrated Weekly In this volume many German legends and fairy stories have been used, but they are so introduced and guarded as not to leave a wrong impression upon the minds of the young and immature. Zigzag Journeys in Northern Lands; The Rhine to the Arctic; A Summer Trip of the Zigzag Club Through Holland, Germany, Denmark, Norway, and Sweden Now, you will have noticed that there is something about uncles which makes it impossible for them to be good in fairy stories. Oswald Bastable and Others “He has that same book of fairy stories that Joe gave me.” David Dunne A Romance of the Middle West She made a delightful playfellow for the babies, telling them fairy stories by the dozen, and teaching them new games, and washing and dressing Phillida with all the gravity and decorum of an old nurse. In the High Valley Being the fifth and last volume of the Katy Did series There was always a prince in the fairy stories that she told Fluff, but she never described him. Wee Wifie And Patty also knew some fairy stories, chief among them a version of "Cinderella," and that fascinating "Little Red Riding Hood." A Little Girl in Old Philadelphia It's usually the way in all the fairy stories that papa reads to me. Twinkle and Chubbins Their Astonishing Adventures in Nature-Fairyland Perhaps I am like the Princess in the fairy story whose 288 heart was an auk’s egg. Turn About Eleanor A fairy story for you right at the start, birthday lady! The Readjustment All the world is before him; he has only to look round him and choose, like the prince in a fairy story. Wee Wifie There’s a beautiful book of fairy stories in a store down town that I’d like. A Modern Cinderella “You are a pretty fairy story, Princess Naïa, and your gown is a miracle tale which never was true.” The Dark Star They play many of the same games as English children, and I need hardly say that they are brought up on the same fairy stories, because many of our favourites come from Germany. Home Life in Germany Some tell us that we should tell children fairy stories only so long as they regard the whole of life as a fairy tale. The Sexual Life of the Child I'm almost afraid to go to sleep at night for fear I should wake up in Union Street and find it all a fairy story. Aladdin of London or, Lodestar That wasn’t any fairy story, and I think this must be a good deal like heaven. A Modern Cinderella "Yes, a merchant prince, as I believe he will,"— "You will be married, and be happy ever after, as in other fairy stories." A Romantic Young Lady Auerbach's enchanting story of Barfüssele, in which the village Cinderella marries the rich peasant, is a fairy story and not a picture of real life. Home Life in Germany Does the child regard the fairy tale as a lie, even after he has began to doubt if the world of fairy stories has any actual existence? The Sexual Life of the Child We are persuaded it were better if the unreal, fairy stories were excluded from our common school readers and supplanted by something real. The Gospel Day Or, the Light of Christianity The place seemed as empty as an enchanted palace in a fairy story. The Invader A Novel It is like a fairy story, isn't it Ike? A Romantic Young Lady I am so accustomed to penury and debt that it sounds like a fairy story. The Scarlet Feather And do you know, Mrs. Hotchkiss is like one of those magic keys in fairy stories? It, and Other Stories They have a lot of fairy stories about her, but here's the truth: Bishop Bradford and Erastus McMeeter are her backers. The Art of Disappearing But alas! she might not, like the favored girl in the fairy story, proceed without ceremony to satisfy her hunger at the mysterious little table. The Invader A Novel "Thanks; but I'm not Little Red Riding Hood, and I don't want any of your fairy stories." Punch or the London Charivari, Vol. 147, September 23, 1914 The professor smiled around at the group with a happy, child-like stare as if he were one of the characters of a fairy story. The Merriweather Girls in Quest of Treasure In all the legends and ballads handed down to me by my aunt she appears to me as a little girl—Alice in a fairy story. Once on a Time The story impresses us as rather a fairy story or a picturesque dream. Hidden Symbolism of Alchemy and the Occult Arts He looked the way you fancy a prince looking, Melody, when Auntie Joy tells you a fairy story, though he was simply dressed enough. Rosin the Beau Or this was a fairy story in which he lived. Eight Keys to Eden Last Sunday he told them a little, old-fashioned children’s fairy story with a moral. The Watchers of the Plains A Tale of the Western Prairies Let’s go out in the yard where she is sitting with her sewing and get her to tell us a fairy story.” A Little Maid of Massachusetts Colony The fairy story also used the same forest symbol. Hidden Symbolism of Alchemy and the Occult Arts Every one, perhaps, could write his own fairy story; this is mine. Rosin the Beau Because I wasn’t given fairy stories when I was little, I took them seriously when I was twenty-three.” The Pagan Madonna The play of King Lear is based upon a fable and a fairy story. William Shakespeare The fairy story, the circus, novelty hunting, delight the sophisticated adult; they excite and confuse the child. Here and Now Story Book Two- to seven-year-olds "Yes, and suppose they had come down to you and had said you would have to write them a new fairy story before they could finish the play," teased Mrs. Horton. Sunny Boy in the Big City You don't believe that fairy story, do you?” Humorous Ghost Stories He never put his arms round me and told me fairy stories.” The Pagan Madonna These legends and fairy stories have remained with me but vaguely—I was too young—but I remember the 'guise dancing,' when the villagers went about in masks, entering houses and frightening the children. The Cornwall Coast Obviously, fairy stories cannot be lumped and rejected en masse. Here and Now Story Book Two- to seven-year-olds "Then please omit it; we have had enough of the fairy tale element in this trial without the introduction of any fresh fairy stories or nursery rhymes whatever." The Tale of Lal A Fantasy This solace recurs in reference to the large, vague, and hotly debated subject of folklore and fairy stories, their connection, and the origin of the latter. A History of the French Novel, Vol. 1 From the Beginning to 1800 I want to be thrust into the middle of some fairy story before I die. The Pagan Madonna Here he became imbued with the power and richness of native folk-lore; he drank in the racy quality through the quaint fairy stories and old wives' tales of the Irish peasantry. Modern British Poetry I do not wish this to be interpreted to mean that I think all fairy stories forever harmful. Here and Now Story Book Two- to seven-year-olds Was she telling them a fairy story, or teaching them a new game of whist? The Chautauqua Girls At Home That the fairy story sprung up, to supply the always graceful supernatural element in a better form, is a matter which will be dealt with later in this chapter. A History of the French Novel, Vol. 1 From the Beginning to 1800 Did you ever tell him a fairy story?” The Pagan Madonna Oh, it seems just like a fairy story. Clematis I know he thinks her fairy stories are lies. Madge Morton's Victory If only we knew the whole life of one of these ocean water striders and all the strange sights it must see, a fairy story indeed would be unfolded to us. The Log of the Sun A Chronicle of Nature's Year A fairy story must never "drag," and in its better, and indeed all its genuine, forms it never does. A History of the French Novel, Vol. 1 From the Beginning to 1800 When you throw away this book with your doll, do not be too severe with your old grandfather for wasting his time on such trifles as fairy stories. Laboulaye's Fairy Book “Yes, it is like a fairy story,” Mr. Brooks replied. Clematis I suppose this Philip will think my exaggerations are as bad as Tania’s fairy stories. Madge Morton's Victory Is he making up fairy stories about it?' Peterkin Modern reprints—except of the fairy stories and one or two others—are almost entirely wanting. A History of the French Novel, Vol. 1 From the Beginning to 1800 She had read stories of schoolgirl life which seemed more like fairy stories than experiences of real girls. Elizabeth Hobart at Exeter Hall Types of Arms—The Creusot Quick-Firing Field Gun, or "Long Tom" The whole action of the Naval Brigade reads like a fairy story. South Africa and the Transvaal War, Vol. 2 (of 6) From the Commencement of the War to the Battle of Colenso, 15th Dec. 1899 She was telling fairy stories like, to Master Duke and Master Hec, and they began asking her to explain and she would say it was quite true, not fairy stories at all. Hoodie It was really more interesting than any of his fairy stories, for he managed to make both himself and me feel as if we were going to be in one of them ourselves. Peterkin Never was there such a triumph of the famous impossible-probable as a good fairy story. A History of the French Novel, Vol. 1 From the Beginning to 1800 Like many other traditional "antiques," this is undoubtedly a fairy story, as it claims to have been made in commemoration of the defeat of the Spanish Armada, at contemporary times. Chats on Old Lace and Needlework He went straight off now to see “his baby,” and to continue the fairy story which he had commenced at Grantley Hall. As We Sweep Through The Deep Yes," said Cousin Magdalen, in reply to Maudie's question, "in a very old fairy story. Hoodie It was the wolf in the fairy story who said he'd huff and he'd puff, and he'd blow in the house where the little pig lived; yet tonight his humor was less savage. Chimney-Pot Papers You've told me lots of fairy stories the last two days, but that is the most improbable. The Opened Shutters She was sure that it must be real, because he was so rich, but she had never known that rubies could be so big except in a fairy story. Fair Margaret A Portrait Sheba and Rupert followed them, and all three found themselves lured out into the moonlit night to saunter with him a few yards down the light avenue, talking still about their fairy story. In Connection with the De Willoughby Claim I feel as people used to in the old fairy stories and legends. The Girl Scouts in Beechwood Forest "Oh, Arthur," cried Harry, "I do wish you'd be quiet: when you know it's a fairy story, and that Queens of that sort never had greenhouses or anything like we have now." Last Words A Final Collection of Stories The prairies with their bluebells, the prairie islands with their giant trees, the forests that shaded the streams, were all like a legend, a fairy story, a dream. In The Boyhood of Lincoln A Tale of the Tunker Schoolmaster and the Times of Black Hawk Tired of their play, the children had assembled on the verandah, Dolly sitting on Miss Whimple's knee looking over a picture book, the others listening to one of William's fairy stories. William Adolphus Turnpike The little room was interesting; the two beautiful young people suggested the atmosphere of a fairy story. In Connection with the De Willoughby Claim The developing child soon passes out of the period where the old fairy stories and their modern analogues satisfy his needs. Children's Literature A Textbook of Sources for Teachers and Teacher-Training Classes It seems almost like a fairy story now, but at that time it was terribly real. The Day of Judgment "Not a fairy story this time, sir, please; give us the real thing!" Fernley House This was not very wicked; it was only a fairy story. Aunt Madge's Story It cannot avoid preaching, as fairy stories now-a-days cannot stop without a moral for good children, and consequently is, like them, stupid and unreal. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 18, No. 108, October, 1866 The childhood of the race has produced much literature with a true appeal to the human heart, in the form of fable, fairy story, myth, and hero story. Children's Literature A Textbook of Sources for Teachers and Teacher-Training Classes God will speak again, and all the vain glory of the Kaiser will become as the fairy stories of the past!' "The Pomp of Yesterday" He’s just superb,” she answered, delighted with her fairy story. The Cricket They could never call up the faintest recollection of a fairy story when you asked for one. Aunt Madge's Story These stories are corrective of the desire which characterizes some children for too many fairy stories. Ontario Teachers' Manuals: Literature Since myth naturally comes along a little later than fairy stories, probably beginning not earlier than the third grade, the discussion of its meanings may take a wider range. Children's Literature A Textbook of Sources for Teachers and Teacher-Training Classes "It is a fairy story you have given us," said an American officer. Young Glory and the Spanish Cruiser A Brave Fight Against Odds Unless she could think of a way to explain her fairy stories to the girls, her position as leader in that school was lost. The Cricket But the mischief was, my dear mother did not know where to draw the line between fairy stories and lies. Aunt Madge's Story The fairy story and the nature story should be alternated, so that the child's interests may be imaginative without becoming visionary, and practical without becoming prosaic. Ontario Teachers' Manuals: Literature It seems fairly clear, on the other hand, that fairy stories were told by the folk as matter of entertainment. Children's Literature A Textbook of Sources for Teachers and Teacher-Training Classes Though fairy stories may have lost their intrinsic interest for high school students, the teacher will find in the collection given here the material for many a study. Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 10 The Guide The child was like a changeling, in the old fairy stories. Margaret Montfort More admirable and fascinating a fairy story book we have not lately set eyes upon. Sara Crewe or, What Happened at Miss Minchin's It's them things with lady slippers a size too large for your foot I'm a-thinking of, pet, and small it is enough for glarse boots as the fairy story do tell. The Opal Serpent It may be, as some theorists insist, that remains of myth survive in some of these fairy stories. Children's Literature A Textbook of Sources for Teachers and Teacher-Training Classes If children are led to study fairy stories, absurdities in them soon become tiresome. Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 10 The Guide "So I am afraid to tell fairy stories since that, for I don't like to be called a wicked lady, you know." Little Prudy She scarcely spoke of her sister, and seemed content to sit by my side and read fairy stories. A Young Mutineer The light-hearted fairy stories which I wrote to cheer, so to speak, the sick-bed of an innocent child, sir, they have recoiled upon my own head. Bones Being Further Adventures in Mr. Commissioner Sanders' Country Modern fables are no more possible than a new Mother Goose or a new fairy story. Children's Literature A Textbook of Sources for Teachers and Teacher-Training Classes How absurd it is that in fairy stories things so often happen in sets of three! Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 10 The Guide Horace begged her now to tell that fairy story about "The Bravest of Lion's Castle;" but Susy said it made her feel wicked to think of fairy stories that day, though she couldn't tell why. Little Prudy And yet she had quite a collection of fairy stories and poems of her own composition. An Australian Lassie I suppose he's eaten something, or drunk something, to make him grow, the way they do in fairy stories; because the Admiral certainly said he wasn't any bigger than an ant. The Admiral's Caravan "And we will all end like a fairy story," she declares, trying to laugh, but it is such a poor, mirthless sound. Floyd Grandon's Honor In this volume also is found The King of the Golden River, perhaps the best fairy story ever written. Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 10 The Guide "Well," said Grace, "I'm much obliged to you, auntie; I think it's just as nice as a fairy story—don't you, Susy?" Little Prudy Her fairy story to-day had to do with the bold and handsome Waratah which ran mad in the bush behind her home, towards Middle Harbour. An Australian Lassie They consist of: Several fairy stories published years ago in Our Young Folks and St. Nicholas, magazines for young people. The Life of Mrs. Robert Louis Stevenson Coming round the walk he sees Cecil in the hammock, and Violet is telling her a fairy story. Floyd Grandon's Honor Certain of the fairy stories are excellent; so are anecdotes concerning men of whom the children should know; historical tales, and stories about plants, birds and other animals. Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 10 The Guide I was going to tell a story, a fairy story. Little Prudy There is something romantic, like a fairy story, in a treasure cave. Chatterbox, 1906 In fairy stories, fables, romances, and dramas all are expected to comply with certain conventional understandings without which the entertainment is69 impossible; for instance, when beasts are supposed to speak. Folkways A Study of the Sociological Importance of Usages, Manners, Customs, Mores, and Morals It seems like a fairy story or a chapter from romance. Mushrooms on the Moor Why, I can readily believe any fairy story, and it almost breaks 236father’s heart that you have been so near all these months and none of us known it. The Girls at Mount Morris Dighton has a memory bright and sharp as emery, He could tell them fairy stories that would make you rather red! The Book of Humorous Verse Aunt Elizabeth had already condemned the fairy stories as untrue, and therefore falsehoods, so Doris never mentioned them. A Little Girl in Old Boston She devoured fairy stories and knew many of the mythological gods and goddesses. A Little Girl in Old New York It looks like a fairy story—the little house in the wood, you know—nothing seems real to-day—the woods—it makes me want to cry, they are so beautiful. The Squirrel-Cage She told the children many beautiful fairy stories and they listened eagerly. The Strange Little Girl A Story for Children It was rather the picture of two children listening to some wonderful fairy story, told in the staid tones of a well-loved parent. The Heart of Unaga Elizabeth had never read a fairy story or any vivid description. A Little Girl in Old Boston But Nora Whitney didn't seem to have anything to do but nurse dear Old Gray and read fairy stories. A Little Girl in Old New York Don't be silly, because it's only in fairy stories and histories of England and things like that, that people are unkind and want to hurt each other. The Book of Dragons One of the chief constituents of every fairy story is the giant or dwarf, who occupies a central position. The Problems of Psychical Research Experiments and Theories in the Realm of the Supernormal These stories may be roughly divided into three classes: nursery tales, fairy stories, and jests. Italian Popular Tales “I do believe they are Brownies, or else Gnomes!” declared Marjorie, who had read a great many fairy stories. Dick, Marjorie and Fidge A Search for the Wonderful Dodo "At least, we like it some; but we both like fairy stories better." Marjorie's Busy Days The papers would not call them dragons, because, of course, no one believes in dragons nowadays—and at any rate the papers were not going to be so silly as to believe in fairy stories. The Book of Dragons They are not the stalwart, fierce race of beings imagined in the fairy stories, and which popular belief still pictures them. The Problems of Psychical Research Experiments and Theories in the Realm of the Supernormal Like a prince in a fairy story he bowed grandly and offered me an American Beauty still moist with the mock dews of the florist. The Best Short Stories of 1919 and the Yearbook of the American Short Story Besides translating the Iliad and the Odyssey and writing the two fairy stories in verse, Sella and The Little People of the Snow, Bryant undertook no poetic work of any length. Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 7 O, stop your chatter, Annie, and let Virginia tell us one of her fairy stories just as she used to do. Semiramis and Other Plays Semiramis, Carlotta And The Poet Do you remember the old fairy story about the unfortunate king who had three iron bands clamped tightly round his heart? The Lady of the Basement Flat Here, then, we have phenomena, attested by scientific men, all happening within the past few years, rivalling any of a like nature that are reported to have occurred in fairy stories! The Problems of Psychical Research Experiments and Theories in the Realm of the Supernormal The play to be produced was the dramatization of a wonderful old Bohemian fairy story, which Polly remembered to have read years before, called "The Castle of Life." The Camp Fire Girls in the Outside World A cunning organization of men who are not-men, a regular fairy story, all straight from Harry Scott's agile young mind. The Dark Door One, he told me, was a new novel for his wife, with some fairy stories for the children,—all, of course, phonographs. With The Eyes Shut 1898 Perhaps he half-believed the fanciful suggestion made by Teddy, with reference to Captain Kidd, and was wildly hoping to discover some positive sign that would stamp this fairy story with truth. Boy Scouts on Hudson Bay The Disappearing Fleet Poems, novels, fairy stories, he gave us, but it was on the stage of comedy that he eventually found his true métier. John Lyly The other actor was the star, a young man of about twenty-six or seven, who was impersonating Grazioso, the hero of the fairy story. The Camp Fire Girls in the Outside World Even my last new book of fairy stories failed to interest me. The Story of the White-Rock Cove We are not disposed to treat that ancient record with which our Bible opens as romance or fairy story, but to regard it as containing a true and authentic record of what actually transpired. Love to the Uttermost Expositions of John XIII.-XXI. It was like the hospitality of oriental kings in the fairy stories of my childhood. A Daughter of the Middle Border Rose listened, as enchanted as a child with a fairy story,—and indeed such it was, a modern fairy tale wherein medicine was a magic potion, and the merciful knife a magic wand. 'Smiles' A Rose of the Cumberlands Afterwards there was a change, and even the writer of fairy stories had to work outside the range of the Censor. Bulgaria I have been reading over this chapter and all I can say to my readers is, as a substitute for leaving it out, that I hope it sounds to them like a fairy story. The Ghost in the White House Some suggestions as to how a hundred million people (who are supposed in a vague, helpless way to haunt the white house) can mak There is a fairy story that I read many, many years ago that has never ceased to haunt me. The Idler Magazine, Volume III, April 1893 An Illustrated Monthly His fairy stories don’t hurt game an’ they be interesting to the tenderfuts in the States. The Black Wolf Pack Her ex-patient sat on a little stool close by her side, a book of fairy stories resting on her elevated bare knees. 'Smiles' A Rose of the Cumberlands No, no, my pretty dear, no one will believe that fairy story, and if an angel from heaven came down and took rooms in my house, it would be ruined. The Son of Monte-Cristo, Volume II Perhaps his natural liking for strange and exciting events would have made him even more eager than other children to be told fairy stories and tales of real heroes of his own land. Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 6 As we read fairy stories to our children," he says, "we may study history for ourselves. Folklore as an Historical Science Gilbert, the children are crying out for you to tell them your fairy stories, and sing your songs to them. The Squire An Original Comedy in Three Acts Jimmy is a dear, and so imaginative that I believe he lives every story that I tell him of the Cumberlands—certainly he likes them better than fairy stories. 'Smiles' A Rose of the Cumberlands She is the princess in the fairy story whom some fine prince will find and wake up with a kiss. High Noon A New Sequel to 'Three Weeks' by Elinor Glyn The nature-spirits are also responsible for whatever of truth there may be in Fairies.all the strange fairy stories which are so common in certain parts of the country. The Astral Plane Its Scenery, Inhabitants and Phenomena Uncle Augustus was at home, and that in itself was as good as most fairy stories. Prudy Keeping House I never read a fairy story in my childhood. Adventures in the Arts Informal Chapters on Painters, Vaudeville, and Poets But I ought not to name such harsh things as landladies at the opening of the fairy story of my girlhood. The Promised Land He concealed his anxiety therefore, and after receiving Tom's report of his operations in dead-fall setting, he drew Judie to his side and told her a fairy story, as night fell. The Big Brother A Story of Indian War Of course nothing just like this ever happened save in a fairy story—or in real life. Ruth Fielding at the War Front or, The Hunt for the Lost Soldier This is an enchanting fairy story that may be compared to the fairy classics of Grimm and of Hans Andersen. Short Stories of Various Types I always had the feeling as a child, that fairy stories were for grown-ups and were best understood by them, and for that reason I think it must have been that I postponed them. Adventures in the Arts Informal Chapters on Painters, Vaudeville, and Poets They all three planned a fairy story they might write which would rival the fairy stories of the Arabian Nights. The Mother and Her Child But you are beautiful as a princess in a fairy story. A Soldier of the Legion No clew here to the mystery; only a number of words which Tode did not understand, and something about God, which he could not see had anything to do with the fairy story. Three People I tucked her in at night and always kissed her, and when I found out how she wanted to be held tight, I held her and told her fairy stories. The Girl Scouts at Home, or, Rosanna's Beautiful Day It was ascertained from the parents that this boy, at an age when most children are reading fairy stories, had a passion for standard medical literature and textbooks in physical science. The Measurement of Intelligence An Explanation of and a Complete Guide for the Use of the Stanford Revision and Extension of the Binet-Simon Intelligence Scale Don't you try to tell me any fairy stories, or you'll pull down trouble. Torchy I thought of it as a thrilling fairy story. A Soldier of the Legion Esther was the first, I think, to have her wish granted 'even to the half of my kingdom,' and all the fairy stories since have borrowed the phrase. The Master-Knot of Human Fate The fairy stories that delighted our childhood and the romances that fired our youth, are found but poor guides to success, when the great life-battle is on us. How to Get on in the World A Ladder to Practical Success You see it can't be done; it sounds like a fairy story, but Mollie knows that it all happened. Sunshine Factory It sounds like a fairy story—a best seller or what you will. A Son of the Hills His youth was like that of the lubberly younger sons in the fairy stories. Epic and Romance Essays on Medieval Literature Freddie wanted to know, for he liked to have fairy stories read to him. The Bobbsey Twins on Blueberry Island What kind of a fairy story are you trying to put across on me? White Ashes His wife made him some punch, of which he was very fond, and sat with him telling him fairy stories, in order to keep him awake. A Popular History of the Art of Music From the Earliest Times Until the Present It was like a modern fairy story—the most exciting and compelling thing one could imagine. A Son of the Hills To give an instance: it may be remembered that in her days of loneliness Marjory had woven fairy stories about the flowers and trees in the garden and the woods. Hunter's Marjory A Story for Girls "Well, maybe it will turn out to be a fairy story," said Mr. Bobbsey with a laugh. The Bobbsey Twins on Blueberry Island The old Chinese fairy story hits upon a fundamental and vital truth. The Mind and Its Education They was a queen in that fairy story Mary told us yesterday. Mary's Rainbow Your books read like fairy stories; I'm too old a hand to be taken in. A Son of the Hills "If we could only find the lost pocketbook and the diamond ring now, I would say it might be almost like a fairy story." Bunny Brown and His Sister Sue at Christmas Tree Cove If only the fairy stories about changing old clerks to fairy princes came true! Pirate Gold He was like the girl in the fairy story, who dropped pearls every time she spoke. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 05, No. 28, February, 1860 "Oh, come off, Tom; no more fairy stories for me." Cad Metti, The Female Detective Strategist Dudie Dunne Again in the Field It seems more than ever as if I were in a fairy story. The Heather-Moon We know that fairy stories appeal directly to them, and they love to reproduce them. The Elements of General Method Based on the Principles of Herbart Now I have another story to tell—not a fairy story this time. The Guests Of Hercules I'll never forget how dear they looked, like two happy children bringing a favorite toy to the sick child in the fairy stories we all know and teach to our children. Sixty Years of California Song |
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