单词 | pixy |
例句 | Pixies produce a high-pitched jabbering intelligible only to other pixies. Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z It had absolutely no effect; one of the pixies seized his wand and threw it out of the window, too. Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets 1998-07-02T00:00:00Z As wizards and witches attempted to consult the papers before them, sundry pixies and fairies whirled around their heads, giggling and jabbering. Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z “He just wants to give us some hands-on experience,” said Hermione, immobilizing two pixies at once with a clever Freezing Charm and stuffing them back into their cage. Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets 1998-07-02T00:00:00Z The pixies were electric blue and about eight inches high, with pointed faces and voices so shrill it was like listening to a lot of budgies arguing. Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets 1998-07-02T00:00:00Z “I haven’t learned anything from him except not to set pixies loose.” Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets 1998-07-02T00:00:00Z “Can you believe him?” roared Ron as one of the remaining pixies bit him painfully on the ear. Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets 1998-07-02T00:00:00Z The pixies shot in every direction like rockets. Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets 1998-07-02T00:00:00Z A few resemble science-fiction robots, while others look like pixies out of Japanese anime. Movie Review | 'The Secret of Kells': Outside the Abbey?s Fortified Walls, a World of Fairy Girls and Beasts 2010-03-05T00:07:00Z The novel, a mythic tale set roughly 1,500 years ago in a wild, fantastical England populated by ogres, pixies, knights and dragons, was unlike anything he’d ever written. For Kazuo Ishiguro, ‘The Buried Giant’ Is a Departure 2015-02-19T05:00:00Z In a visionary new production of the play at the Erickson Theatre, we see that blurring in the way ordinary people coexist with fairy-tale creatures rooted in folklore — bogles, pixies, kelpies and elves. 'The Skriker': where boundaries between us and the otherworldly are stretched 2012-10-26T18:34:21Z The old woman who lives in the woods will tell a tale of bears and pixies. Old wives' tales 2010-05-14T23:00:00Z “God and Harold Ross alone know what that bunch of pixies on the staff are doing with my poor script,” he writes, referring to the founding editor of The New Yorker. 9 Letters From Young J. D. Salinger Unearthed 2013-04-23T22:10:00Z That is, until one entered the bottling warehouse itself, which looked like an industrial manufacturing plant colonized by pixies. What Is Glitter? 2018-12-21T05:00:00Z I've strewn golden breadcrumbs behind me, but I fear the pixies may eat them . My Strictly diary: I'm learning new and vital skills I never imagined I'd need 2010-10-18T19:00:00Z There are bullies, a sly villain, a kidnapping, Irish pixies, a West African protector-spider and classes in Marvellian history, chants and elixirs. Diversity is at the heart of magic school in ‘The Marvellers’ 2022-05-18T04:00:00Z The work is dizzying, requiring you to constantly look down at your feet and then back at the trees, straining to find creatures that feel as mythical as pixies. He spends his days counting monarch butterflies in L.A. He could use your help 2022-01-15T05:00:00Z Many of his clients have come seeking dramatically short cuts — shags, pixies and razored bobs. New year, new hair? 2022 might be the year of the rebellious haircut 2022-01-12T05:00:00Z Jack teams up with a team of elves, fairies, pixies and sprites to infiltrate the bowels of the wicked great tree of life for a final confrontation with the devilish Lord. Blu-ray movie review: ‘Legend: Limited Edition’ 2021-10-02T04:00:00Z The wonder runner happens to be a charming pixy. AP WAS THERE: 1952 Helsinki Games 2020-08-02T04:00:00Z Trolls World Tour True to its title, the sugary-sweet animated bauble consists of one lavish concert after another, performed and attended by cute multihued pixies with big hair, creamy voices and infernally catchy beats. 10 movies people are watching and talking about across the multiplatformverse 2020-04-15T04:00:00Z True to its title, the sugary-sweet animated bauble “Trolls World Tour” consists of one lavish concert after another, performed and attended by cute multihued pixies with big hair, creamy voices and infernally catchy beats. Review: You can watch 'Trolls World Tour' at home. Kid will like it. Adults almost will 2020-04-08T04:00:00Z The Moors are a wondrous, lush world bursting with glowing flowers, fairies, ogres, pixies and talking tree giants. ‘Maleficent: Mistress of Evil, Ultimate Collector’s Edition’ 4K Ultra HD review 2020-01-14T05:00:00Z "It's scarcely worth having a name for. I don't have a name for not believing in pixies." Obituary: Jonathan Miller 2019-11-27T05:00:00Z She said the couple had loved the natural world, had climbed mountains together and shared an interest in fairies, pixies and The Lord of the Rings. Bestival death: actor tells court daughter's boyfriend left her to die 2019-02-07T05:00:00Z “In most of his roles,” Playboy magazine observed in 1979, “he portrays a kind of macho pixy who often doesn’t take himself or even the film he’s in very seriously.” Burt Reynolds, the wise-cracking star of 'Smokey and the Bandit' and 'Deliverance,' dies at 82 And I'm doing a quick stint on “Maleficent 2” because, well, I'm one of the pixies. Sunday Conversation: Lesley Manville discusses her wide-ranging career and new appreciation for TV 2018-07-05T04:00:00Z Meanwhile, cackling flying pixies are apparently the equivalent to rodents, which is how Smith gets to deliver the cringe-worthy line “Fairy lives don’t matter today” while bludgeoning one to death in his front yard. Analysis | Will Smith’s star is fading. Can ‘Bright’ be the hit he needs? 2017-12-29T05:00:00Z From breastfeeding mothers to zombies, pixies, a T-rex and a vomiting smiley, there’s plenty to choose from. iOS 11: the eight best new features for your iPhone and iPad 2017-09-19T04:00:00Z Suppose I claim that pixies always make selfless, enlightened political decisions and that therefore we should entrust our government to pixies. The Case Against Democracy 2016-10-31T04:00:00Z Female rugby players are strong and fast and skilled, but they are not stereotypical Olympic darlings, not sequined pixies or sleek swimmers. On a day when rugby makes its Olympic return, U.S. women are up and down 2016-08-06T04:00:00Z At the time, Kelly was working at a gallery that sold pictures of elves and pixies, and Horgan was working at a head shop. The Brutal Romantic Behind “Catastrophe” 2016-04-25T04:00:00Z About the same percentage of Democrats prefer a 74-year-old Socialist who seems to believe federal revenue is created by pixies. The Joy of Madness 2015-09-16T04:00:00Z There are adventures and battles with ogres, pixies, dragons, and menacing soldiers. Kazuo Ishiguro’s Folly 2015-03-16T04:00:00Z While we’re on the subject of vulcans and pixies, we might as well mention that there’s an elephant in the room. The Case Against Democracy 2016-10-31T04:00:00Z “I envisioned the girls wearing my clothes to look like otherworldly creatures, like polished little pixies emerging from the forest, “ the 33-year-old designer told FORBES. Erin Fetherson's Muses For Fall '15: Taylor Swift, Fairytales And Polished Pixies 2015-02-24T05:00:00Z The protesters started in a festive mood, spraying pink glitter on passersby and dressing up as hula-hooping pixies and cupids to mark Brazilian Lovers' Day, which is also being celebrated today. Anti-World Cup protests in Brazilian cities mark countdown to kick-off 2014-06-12T04:00:00Z Suddenly, and all through the day and night, snowsuited daredevils were flying off ramps, sequined pixies were spinning over ice and wooden sticks were slapping disks of vulcanized rubber past goalkeepers. On Winter Olympics’ first full day, Sochi problems aren’t gone but are partially forgotten 2014-02-08T20:57:00Z From afar, they looked like twin pixies, Tinker Bell One and Tinker Bell Two, though the sisters were actually two years apart. Too Fast, Too Soon? Young Endurance Runners Draw Cheers and Concerns 2012-11-05T20:30:06Z Be there pixies that lead poor souls into some ditch or quagmire, where they be swallowed quick in the pluffy ground? With Drake on the Spanish Main 2012-02-20T03:00:17.357Z I don't believe in magic, ghosts, witches, evil eye, Aladdin's lamp, or pixies. A Drake by George! 2012-01-09T03:00:22.163Z The judge also explains to owners that money is usually acquired in exchange for providing goods or services, not shoveled into their bank accounts by magical pixies with diamond-tipped wands. The Fifth Down: N.F.L. 2011, From January to Tebowary and Beyond 2011-12-31T17:37:00Z So the pixies took the chip of crystal away with them into the darkest deep of the forest and laid it in the green moss where the green shadows were darkest under the green trees. Fairies I Have Met 2011-12-10T03:00:13.687Z There are good and bad pixies, and much blame is laid at the door of the bad ones for any mischances that come about. Norway 2011-11-29T03:00:15.103Z It would be as useless to discuss, at this point, the actuality of what are called "spectres," as of other things named fairies, pixies, gnomes, or sprites. Ancient Faiths And Modern A Dissertation upon Worships, Legends and Divinities 2011-11-24T03:00:37.917Z “Arminel reminds one of that former pixy in her teasing, affectionate, plaguey ways.” Psyche 2011-11-15T03:00:18.293Z If we are magicians and work spells under magic glasses, why should not the pixies work spells on the grass? Through Magic Glasses and Other Lectures A Sequel to The Fairyland of Science 2011-10-03T02:00:33.003Z Pixies, pixies," he called to them, "here is a chip from the Crystal Mountain. Fairies I Have Met 2011-12-10T03:00:13.687Z Meanwhile, Dulcie and Cyril, with white, scared faces, were fleeing hand in hand like pixies among the trees. The Rainbow Book Tales of Fun & Fancy 2011-09-18T02:00:22.467Z Can it be possible that it is the prank of a pixy? The Girls of Central High on the Stage The Play That Took The Prize 2011-09-05T02:00:21.083Z They do say that the pixies steal away the babies of Christian folk, and put their own bantlings in their stead. A Book of Ghosts 2011-07-08T02:00:19.203Z Pursued, as by a pixy, By each infectious air, I 'Want to be in Dixie' When ev'rybody's there! The Motley Muse (Rhymes for the Times) 2011-06-29T02:00:30.303Z She assured Mrs. Yellam that Solomon could see pixies dancing in their rings. The Soul of Susan Yellam 2011-06-16T02:00:19.090Z Then little pixies floating around the screen were "caught" with gestures, sparkling and poofing when caught. Microsoft out to show Xbox has got more game 2011-06-07T04:38:57Z As they reached the ledge their wings fell from them, and they turned into lovely little pixies, as light and transparent as gossamer. A Fortunate Term 2011-05-12T02:00:10.623Z In past times no one would have dared to enter its gloomy precincts, as it was considered to be the abode of pixies, witch-hags, and the powers of evil and darkness generally. The Last of the Vikings 2011-05-09T02:00:04.200Z The basket was full of ugly imps and elves and pixies and demons and devils. Japanese Fairy Tales 2011-04-15T02:00:14.617Z Mrs. Bray tells a similar story of a Devonshire pixy, who helped an old woman to spin. Popular Rhymes and Nursery Tales A Sequel to the Nursery Rhymes of England 2011-04-01T02:00:34.340Z In general appearance the fairies were much the same as pixies. The Fairy-Faith in Celtic Countries 2011-01-06T03:00:47.543Z On and on they danced, hour after hour; the moon rose slowly in the sky, but the pixies' feet seemed never to tire as they beat time to the enchanting music. A Fortunate Term 2011-05-12T02:00:10.623Z It was the Captain's brother, a young and promising sailor, who had won much praise for daring adventures with water pixies on "the stream that joins Loch Katrine and Achray." Old Farm Fairies: A Summer Campaign In Brownieland Against King Cobweaver's Pixies If Pan still pipes it is to the pixies. Glories of Spain In gratitude to the "good people," she placed green mantles for their acceptance, and the next night the fairies departed, exclaiming— Now the pixies' work is done! Popular Rhymes and Nursery Tales A Sequel to the Nursery Rhymes of England 2011-04-01T02:00:34.340Z The megaliths, in the plain language of the folk-belief, are haunted by fairies, pixies, corrigans, ghosts, and various sorts of invisible beings. The Fairy-Faith in Celtic Countries 2011-01-06T03:00:47.543Z You can and shall find me my child," said Nancy, "for I know that the pixies have stolen him away, and that only a pixie can bring him back to me. A Fortunate Term 2011-05-12T02:00:10.623Z As it runs it babbles fond love-songs to the pixies that, perchance, are peeping out at it, through their yellow tresses, from shady curves and sun-kissed corners. Faith and Unfaith Note the differences between black, brown, and white dwarfs, and trolls, elves, pixies, kobolds, brownies, and goblins. Woman's Club Work and Programs First Aid to Club Women The pixy came, put on the clothes, and clapping its hands with delight, vanished, saying these lines: Pixy fine, pixy gay, Pixy now will run away. Popular Rhymes and Nursery Tales A Sequel to the Nursery Rhymes of England 2011-04-01T02:00:34.340Z One may also hear of a person being pixy-led; the pixies may cause a traveller to lose his way at night if he crosses a field where they happen to be. The Fairy-Faith in Celtic Countries 2011-01-06T03:00:47.543Z "It's all the fault of the Devonshire pixies," whispered Mavis. A Fortunate Term 2011-05-12T02:00:10.623Z A third showed a brownie in a tree-top, nestling by the side of a baby owl, and a fourth the pixies sporting under a starlit sky. The Head Girl at the Gables I call 'em my Sugar Plum pixies, and sometimes we grin at each other. Sugar Plum I was in danger of nothing so insignificant as a pixy. Rossmoyne And both tribes of beings, so far as they can be distinguished, are the same as the elfish peoples—pixies in Cornwall, Robin Good-fellows in England, goblins in Wales, or brownies in Scotland. The Fairy-Faith in Celtic Countries 2011-01-06T03:00:47.543Z He says the pixies were the prehistoric Stone Age or Bronze Age people who lived on into historic times, and hid themselves in the mounds or caves or wild places on the moor. A Fortunate Term 2011-05-12T02:00:10.623Z He vanishes;—swift carrier of some Fay, Some pixy steed that haunts our child-belief— A goblin glimpse from woodland way to way. Weeds by the Wall Verses Like most phantasms, the modern pixies are silent and elusive. Byways of Ghost-Land A dainty and delicate legend of the brave days of old, of sprites and pixies, of trolls and gnomes, of ruthless barons and noble knights. The Bright Face of Danger Being an Account of Some Adventures of Henri de Launay, Son of the Sieur de la Tournoire The land-dwelling pixy was usually thought to be full of mischievous fun, but it did no harm. The Fairy-Faith in Celtic Countries 2011-01-06T03:00:47.543Z If I don't, the Devonshire pixies had best steal me away and have done with it. A Fortunate Term 2011-05-12T02:00:10.623Z Come from sequesteréd shoals of hell Blithe pixies and lithe naiads fair That revel till the ev'ning skies Grow lustrous as Arcadian noon. Betelguese A Trip Through Hell He never thought that fairies might live in them, or gnomes or pixies, for he had never heard of such creatures. Dreamers of the Ghetto In a pixy chariot, drawn, Not by deer, but elfin fawn, Thou hast come, Jack Frost and gone. The Loom of Life I should say that the modern belief in pixies, or in fairies, arose from a very ancient Celtic or pre-Celtic belief in spirits. The Fairy-Faith in Celtic Countries 2011-01-06T03:00:47.543Z By the time they reached the farm he was chatting just as usual, and telling more stories of Devonshire pixies. A Fortunate Term 2011-05-12T02:00:10.623Z There is a dream-wood in which the souls of all things intermingle, and once imprisoned there, the nature-lover may not escape until he has paid toll to the pixies. Mountain Meditations and some subjects of the day and the war Formerly its beach was haunted by pixies and mermaids; now, in the summer, it becomes quite fashionable with the presence of those who are lucky enough to get lodgings. The Cornwall Coast "He can't be on a visit to any one, unless it be the pixies, or creatures of that sort," thought Paul. The Hero of Garside School She thought the pixies some kind of spirits who made their appearance in early morning; and all mishaps to cows she attributed to them.’ The Fairy-Faith in Celtic Countries 2011-01-06T03:00:47.543Z On this one night in the year the town's children were veritable Devonshire pixies. A Fortunate Term 2011-05-12T02:00:10.623Z She was in a pixy mood, and did not mean to show any special haste in beginning her unwelcome work. A Patriotic Schoolgirl Its dancing flames illumine us as if pixies were shaking their tiny lanterns in our faces. Over the Fireside with Silent Friends She was a cute, utterly bold pixy to remember smiling at you—just you—like a spirit of luck and love, far out in the thick silence. The Planet Strappers At the Men-an-Tol there is supposed to be a guardian fairy or pixy who can make miraculous cures. The Fairy-Faith in Celtic Countries 2011-01-06T03:00:47.543Z The stories of the pixies' habits and haunts read just like accounts of very primitive people. A Fortunate Term 2011-05-12T02:00:10.623Z Talks of nothing else, and makes out we're all witches or pixies or what not. A Patriotic Schoolgirl "It's rather as if the pixies had dropped you," laughed Vi. A harum-scarum schoolgirl “What!” exclaimed the old pixy thief, “do you see me to-day?” The Science of Fairy Tales An Inquiry into Fairy Mythology Like the fairies in Britain and Ireland, the corrigans and the Cornish pixies find their favourite amusement in the circular dance. The Fairy-Faith in Celtic Countries 2011-01-06T03:00:47.543Z The pixies' glee enamoured me, They were as merry as merry could be. A History of Nursery Rhymes The fairy book, with its coloured pictures of gnomes and pixies, he clasped tightly in his arms. A Patriotic Schoolgirl A single hobgoblin bassoon croaks ludicrously away, the pixies darkle and flirt and dance their hearts out of them. Contemporary American Composers Being a Study of the Music of This Country, Its Present Conditions and Its Future, with Critical Estimates and Biographies of the Principal Living Composers; and an Abundance of Portraits, Fac-simile Musical Autographs, and Compositions Two pixies of Dartmoor, in the shape of large bundles of rags, led away one of two children who were following their mother homeward. The Science of Fairy Tales An Inquiry into Fairy Mythology The dead haunt houses just as Robin Good-fellows and brownies, or pixies and goblins, generally do. The Fairy-Faith in Celtic Countries 2011-01-06T03:00:47.543Z Martha found some eggs that had been "blown," and a potato filled with ashes, and there were inventions that would have done credit to the "pixies." A Little Girl in Old New York He seemed to have made his appearance suddenly, like a pixy child, and to have vanished back into Fairyland. A Patriotic Schoolgirl He was vaguely conscious of an unwarranted satisfaction in the nearness of this pixy. Other People's Business The Romantic Career of the Practical Miss Dale Our ancestors recognized the fact, but preferred to endow brooks and streams with a definite personality in the form of nymphs, pixies, or whatever they were called. From a Terrace in Prague In Brittany one must always guard against the evil dead, in Cornwall against pixies, in other Celtic lands against different kinds of fairies. The Fairy-Faith in Celtic Countries 2011-01-06T03:00:47.543Z The Rock is of blue limestone, and a deep cavern runs far into it, once supposed to be haunted by the pixies. Devon, Its Moorlands, Streams and Coasts I sometimes think you claim kinship with the pixies,—you are half a witch. Peggy Stewart at School Well, this is said to be a celebrated haunt of the pixies, who have often led benighted travellers astray, and shown them wonderful sights. Deep Down, a Tale of the Cornish Mines The western Slavs in general and the sons of Czech in particular, had their flights of fairies, sprites, pixies and other lovable immortals. From a Terrace in Prague As such, pixies were supposed to be getting smaller and smaller, until finally they are to vanish entirely. The Fairy-Faith in Celtic Countries 2011-01-06T03:00:47.543Z He said that in a general way the women there used to be very small, and folks said that was because they had been changed by the pixies when they were babies. Devon, Its Moorlands, Streams and Coasts As in other countries the fairies or pixies are to be met at crossroads, where happenings, such as funerals, may be witnessed weeks before they really occur. The Book of Hallowe'en Gnarled cedars, hanging precariously, might hide pixies and elves. The White Invaders Of course when the victim is a lady the pixies do not require of them men's oaths. Moriah's Mourning and Other Half-Hour Sketches It seems that evil pixies changed children, and that the pixy at the Men-an-Tol being good, could, in opposition, undo their work.’ The Fairy-Faith in Celtic Countries 2011-01-06T03:00:47.543Z Just as the prehistoric monsters lingered as dragons and firedrakes, so the small early inhabitants of Europe have passed into dwarfs and brownies and pixies. The Jolliest School of All What fairies, dwarfs, pixies, and the like are to the Celts of other places, the spirits of the dead are to the Celts of Brittany. The Book of Hallowe'en This is supposed to drive away the pixies or wicked fairies, and no one would dare to put the roof on without the protection of the green bush. Chatterbox, 1905. I'm sure it's true, for anything could happen on the moor, and of course it swarms with pixies. Set in Silver I think they expect to see them about the twilight hour; though I have not found anybody who has actually seen a pixy—the belief now is largely based on hearsay.’ The Fairy-Faith in Celtic Countries 2011-01-06T03:00:47.543Z The voices behind had faded away; and the air was vibrant of voiceless voices, of pixy tambourines beating the silence. The Freebooters of the Wilderness "No dog, no man, is the rule about here, when it comes to coppice work," continued young de Whichehalse; "there is not a man would dare work there, without a dog to scare the pixies." Lorna Doone A Romance of Exmoor After once listening to it, it was very easy to believe the weird stories of Norse sorceresses, and German wood-spirits and pixies, luring men to death with their fatally musical tones. Guy Livingstone; or, 'Thorough' Probably they are "pixie led," for Devonshire simply swarms with pixies. Set in Silver We people the window boxes with elves and pixies and the dark corners with Red Indians and bears. Greenwich Village The pine needles clicked pixy castanets; and the moon beams sifted through the trees a silver dust. The Freebooters of the Wilderness And again, with the oak behind there was a beech at his right hand, and straight before him the road to the pixies' dell. The Lost Treasure of Trevlyn A Story of the Days of the Gunpowder Plot This was as good as stories of elves, pixies, fays, men of peace and all! Foes Imagination sometimes gives human outlines to shadows among the moon-lit trees, so that elves and pixies, nymphs and fairies, become established in the world as the primitive man conceives it. The Doctrine of Evolution Its Basis and Its Scope In the Athenæum I mentioned the rags in which the pixies generally appear. Notes and Queries, Number 61, December 28, 1850 How could I take real live little girls into the kingdom of the elves and gnomes and pixies? Jimmy, Lucy, and All The pixies and I have the dell to ourselves. The Lost Treasure of Trevlyn A Story of the Days of the Gunpowder Plot He was too intent staring at the pixies and his last beautiful cow. More English Fairy Tales They are men who would be thought pixies. King Alfred's Viking A Story of the First English Fleet In Cornwall it is believed that wherever the pixies are fond of resorting, the depths of the earth are rich in metal. Notes and Queries, Number 61, December 28, 1850 "Surely I heard a child's voice," he said out loud--"or was it some pixy playing with the grey beast of the wood?" A Prince of Cornwall A Story of Glastonbury and the West in the Days of Ina of Wessex The secret lies hid in the pixies' dell. The Lost Treasure of Trevlyn A Story of the Days of the Gunpowder Plot It was alive again; but, alas! as the pixies dragged it back to its stall, it halted in the off forefoot, for a bone was missing. More English Fairy Tales "Here is a word I can understand," said Harek, "and that is 'pixies.'" King Alfred's Viking A Story of the First English Fleet Nay! she would, mayhap, have welcomed the pixies and goblins who by mischievous pranks had claimed her attention. The Nest of the Sparrowhawk Cicely already danced like a pixy, and laughed merrily at her comrade's first awkward antics, until he flushed with embarrassment. Master Skylark But the monastery had fallen into ruins and had disappeared, and after that the pixies were given the credit of the healing waters. The Lost Treasure of Trevlyn A Story of the Days of the Gunpowder Plot Anne lighted a few sticks of driftwood in the fireplace, for love of the pixy flames, and they sat around it for an hour of good fellowship. Anne's House of Dreams Men say that the pixies dwell in the moorland, and will dance to death those who disturb them. King Alfred's Viking A Story of the First English Fleet His workmen, selected from the ryls, knooks, pixies and fairies, live with him, and every one is as busy as can be from one year's end to another. A Kidnapped Santa Claus So people knew fairies in those days, my dear, and loved them, together with all the ryls and knooks and pixies and nymphs and other beings that belong to the hordes of immortals. The Enchanted Island of Yew And from that day forward a happy life began for the brother and sister thus strangely located in the pixies' dell. The Lost Treasure of Trevlyn A Story of the Days of the Gunpowder Plot She looked like a messenger from pixy land. Anne of Avonlea The tulips are the pixy babies' cradles, it seems. The Golden Road Behind these were many ranks of pixies, gnomes and nymphs, and in the rear a thousand beautiful fairies floated along in gorgeous array. A Kidnapped Santa Claus The pixy gave a little scream and jumped up, flying to the old man, who quietly rolled up his scroll. The Armourer's Prentices Cuthbert dimly remembered having heard fragments of legends respecting a pixies' dell in the heart of the forest--a dell avoided by all, for that no man who ventured in came forth alive. The Lost Treasure of Trevlyn A Story of the Days of the Gunpowder Plot Back came the echoes, as if a host of pixy people were mimicking her laughter in the purple woodlands and along the fir-fringed points. Anne of Avonlea The mother pixies come out of the woods at twilight and rock their tiny little brown babies to sleep in the tulip cups. The Golden Road So the fairies, and knooks, and pixies, and ryls all escorted the good man to his castle, and there left him to talk over the events of the night with his little assistants. A Kidnapped Santa Claus I even beheld his familiar spirit—in a fair shape doubtless—like a pixy! The Armourer's Prentices All men hold that it may still be hidden in the forest around the Chase; but there be deep dells by the dozen, and the pixies, men say, have all fled away. The Lost Treasure of Trevlyn A Story of the Days of the Gunpowder Plot Well, not like the hero of a sensational novel—not straight to the bottom like a stone—but like a dreamer carried off by pixies in a wood, with one name ever upon my lips! Three Dramas There were more pixy babies than usual this spring, and the mothers were in a hurry for the cradles. The Golden Road I thought the pixies must have spirited you away! Monitress Merle Was it a pixy at the door, guarding it? The Armourer's Prentices So said Joanna, standing before Cuthbert in the pixies' dell, her hand upon the low stone wall, her tall figure drawn up to its full height. The Lost Treasure of Trevlyn A Story of the Days of the Gunpowder Plot At Hallowe'en it was as gay with jack-o-lanterns and witches' caps as if the pixies themselves had decorated it. Georgina of the Rainbows The pixy babies must have a cradle until they are grown up. The Golden Road The pixies laughed lustily, throwing up their wee green caps into the air and catching them again for sheer joy. Monitress Merle In fact, they were up to all kinds of mischief; and Dame Goody knew that she had got into a house of pixies. English Fairy Tales He was said to have dealings with the fairies and the pixies of the forest. The Lost Treasure of Trevlyn A Story of the Days of the Gunpowder Plot I never saw the pixies myself, but somehow I always felt that the hill was uncanny. Jim Davis Yes dear; and perhaps there are gnomes, and pixies about. The Money Moon A Romance And there they have lived ever since, as happy as the pixies themselves, though no one on earth saw them any more. Monitress Merle Now as for him, he had actually beheld naiads and dryads, nixies and pixies, at play—at least he had practically been upon the point of seeing them. Flowing Gold Petronella, I doubt it not for a moment now, that treasure lies at the bottom of the pixies' well. The Lost Treasure of Trevlyn A Story of the Days of the Gunpowder Plot They believed that the pixies went to dance there whenever the moon was full. Jim Davis It was, indeed, a night wherein pixies, and elves, and goblins, and fairies might weave their magic spells, a night wherein tired humanity dreamed those dreams that seem so hopelessly impossible by day. The Money Moon A Romance All the moor was alive with tiny pixies, whose green garments were like moving fronds of fern. Monitress Merle Woodland nymphs, phantom pixies floating on the wind, zephyrs in the guise of fairies, dreams come true,—my dear Olga, you are a sorceress. West Wind Drift The pixies' well--the hidden secret it guards so well. The Lost Treasure of Trevlyn A Story of the Days of the Gunpowder Plot "You see," said Nan, coming into Patty's room one morning, "I don't know whether you would rather say good-bye to your friends in the guise of a kelpie or a pixy or a jelly-fish." Patty in Paris The place seems to have been fashioned as a dwelling for dryads and hamadryads, for nixies and pixies, and all the fabled spirits of forest and stream. Rainbow's End The pixies dressed Ginnifer in the softest of the gossamer silk robes, they clasped the golden bracelets round her arms and twisted diamonds into her hair. Monitress Merle Peterkin, more than ever like a stray from some unreal, pixy world, surveyed the scene with his big, wondering, gray-green eyes. Angel Island At night when I was totally still I felt a whole crew of pixies and brownies with picks and shovels at work in the joint doing major repair work. How and When to Be Your Own Doctor "And what would the pixy costume have been, if I had chosen that?" Patty in Paris The moon rose higher, possibly drawing water from the sea, pixies from their dells and certainly more confidences from Simms Bell, the friend of a friend. Rolling Stones "Have you ever seen any pixies yourself, Miss Pollard?" asked Doreen eagerly. Monitress Merle The woods rang with the laughter of pixies and naiads and sprites. The Trimmed Lamp, and other Stories of the Four Million He took out the offending removable seat, and sure enough, the water or pixies or gremlins had again cut a channel across the top of said removable seat. Epistles from Pap: Letters from the man known as 'The Will Rogers of Indiana' But it is sweet to heap the hours With quiet dreams and poppy-flowers, Down in the pixies' hollow. The Home Book of Verse — Volume 1 King Rufus was out a-hunting as they passed over the New Forest, and from Salisbury Plain, as they looked down, the pixies waved their hands and laughed. The Fawn Gloves He devoutly believed in fairies, whom he called pixies; and held that they changed babies, and made the mushroom rings on the downs to dance in. Westward Ho!, or, the voyages and adventures of Sir Amyas Leigh, Knight, of Burrough, in the county of Devon, in the reign of her most glorious majesty Queen Elizabeth There were other spirits calling to her—nymphs of the orange groves, pixies from the chattering surf, imps, born of the music, the perfumes, colours and the insinuating presence of humanity. Whirligigs |
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