fairy-land

Definitions

Noun. [B2]

Examples

“Dear Miss⟳ Woodhouse, how do you do?—Very well I thank⟳ you, quite well. This is meeting quite in fairy-land!—Such a transformation!—Must not compliment, I know⟳—(eyeing Emma most complacently)—that would be rude—but upon my word, Miss⟳ Woodhouse, you do look⟳—how do you like⟳ Jane’s hair?”

“She was beautiful, and he said that he would love⟳ her always with a love⟳ unchangeable as were all things in fairy-land; […]”

“We may add⟳, and our author has knowledge of the fact, that not even the Germans, those masterly delineators and imaginators of fairy-land, have⟳ shown greater or more exquisite insight into the lives and ways of elfs and fays than that which was shown by George Cruikshank.”

“It is now becoming one of the best-known facts in the history of photography that the annual meeting of the Convention, wherever it is held, is the happiest place⟳ to enjoy⟳ talking shop⟳ in the world; it is a fairy-land of make-believe, and is not only harmless, but salutary.”

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