In the Athenæum I mentioned the rags in which the pixies generally appear.
In some parts of Devonshire the pixiesare called "derricks," evidently the A.
In Cornwall it is believed that wherever the pixies are fond of resorting, the depths of the earth are rich in metal.
The pixies have made a raid on the farmer's herds at some time.
Men say that the pixies dwell in the moorland, and will dance to death those who disturb them.
One little leg-bone fell close to the closet door, and the farmer was so afraid lest the pixies should come there and find him in their search for the bone, that he put out his hand and drew it in to him.
He was too intent staring at the pixies and his last beautiful cow.
There are tales of worse than Pixies told about that moor you have come across.
Some folks believe that in such weather the Pixies come abroad, as they do at night, to mislead travelers who have lost their way; and, indeed, the clifftop lies not a hundred yards in front of you.
Come from where thePixies dwell, Dance with sandals dipped in dew, Just to please my Bonnie Belle.
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.
It is not stated whether Elford's presence drove out the pixies to whom the cavern really belonged; but in case they still remain it is well to remember the usual etiquette of leaving a pin or some other small gift.
Pixies seem to be as easily pleased as are the patron saints of some holy wells.
Pixies and wish-hounds and spells are now usually only mentioned in jest where they were formerly whispered of in grim earnest.
Its dancing flames illumine us as if pixies were shaking their tiny lanterns in our faces.
And, in truth, we were not so far wrong when we called them pixies or imps, for many of them are indeed imps of mischief, which play sorry pranks in our stores at home and in the fields and forest abroad.
If we are magicians and work spells under magic glasses, why should not the pixies work spells on the grass?
When such a condition of mind exists among the young, can one expect to find a belief in Pixies still present?
Now I don't suppose you will believe me, but I have heard Granny say that a very long time ago there were Pixies scattered all over the country.
The Pixies were good and kind to some people, but to others they would play all sorts of tricks.
At the first dawn of light the watchful pixies once more sought the tulips, and, though still invisible they could be heard kissing and caressing their babies.
The idea about caves is, perhaps, more likely to be connected with pixies and fairies, who lived in mounds and caves (cf.
Only the genii of the hidden earth held the secret; and modern science derides the invisible pixies of superstition, just as these invisible spirits of the earth seem to laugh at man's best efforts to ferret out their secrets.
To these the Pixies of the neighbourhood loved to resort, and often at midnight might they be heard singing their babes to rest among them.
In this work there is given an account of the Pixies, from which we derive the following information: According to the Devon peasant, the Pixies are the souls of infants who died before they were baptised.
Two serving-girls in Tavistock said that the Pixies were very kind to them, and used to drop silver for them into a bucket of fair water which they took care to place for them in the chimney-nook every night.
The old woman was so fond of her tulips that she would never let one of them be plucked, and thus the Pixies were never deprived of their floral bowers.
Again, however, the power of the Pixies was shown; the parsley withered, and nothing would grow even in the other beds of the garden.
As she was returning, she heard the Pixies debating about what they would do to punish the other.
Once it was forgotten, and the Pixiesforthwith came up to the girls' room, and loudly complained of the neglect.
They're all about Devonshire pixies and witches and charms and things.
The pixies would not let Merle alone that morning.
If I don't, the Devonshire pixies had best steal me away and have done with it.
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.
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.
Have you never heard that if tears fall on a sleeping child the pixies have power to steal it away?
The coloured stars and the silver bells had disappeared, the tropical flowers broke up their circle and changed once more into simple little sea-pinks, and the grass, where the pixies had danced, grew up fresher and greener than ever.
The little bells still rang out their chimes, and the pixies tripped lightly over the grass, till at length the moon began to wane, and the first glimmer of approaching dawn showed in the eastern sky.
The girl who filled the water-bucket found a handful of silver pennies in it next morning, and she heard the Pixies debating what to do with the other girl.
Once it was forgotten, and the Pixies came up into the girls' bedroom, and made a noise about the neglect.
The Pixies are said to be very fond of pure water.
There is a story of two servant-maids at Tavistock who used to leave them a bucket of water, into which the Pixies dropped silver pennies.
They held in each hand a gold rope of sand, To every blue-bell that grew in the dell They tied a strand, Then the fairies and pixies and goblins and elves Danced to the music of the bells By themselves, merry, merry little selves.
I asked him how he stood in with the pixies just now, for I thought his team looked rather poor, but he said that was by reason of the hard summer's work, the pixies having done him no ill for several years.
This is the hour," he says, "when the elves and pixies stir abroad.
For this reason it is, that many good farmers set out little bowls of milk and bits of cheese in some silent meadow or mountain dell, where the pixies may eat quite undisturbed.
No wonder the pixies laughed until their sides ached.
The group of pixies that had gathered around Twinkling Feet moved away in order to let the elfin musician come close to the queer-looking pixie.
As they drew near the green ring where the pixies were still dancing, the delighted elf called out, “I’ve found my laugh!
Near him were two Pixies belonging to the Vaulting Legion who had taken refuge from the flood within the tower, and whose bright eyes shone out of the deep shadows wherein they lay.
The cables shook, swayed and bent down, but neither parted, and the adventurous Pixies landed safely on top of the pier.
However, the lights from the watch fires of their enemies drew some unwary and over curious night wanderers within the confines of the fort, and the hungry Pixies were able to catch a few of them.
The Pixies swarmed to the breastworks; the Pixinees (as the females were called) mounted the ramparts of the fort.
Not more than a dozen Pixies are on guard, the rest are beyond the demilune in the camp at supper, carousing, singing and making merry over Rodney's capture.
While the Pixies were highly elated, the Brownies were dispirited, cowed, well nigh in despair.
Sometimes thePixies got the advantage, sometimes the Brownies; but on the whole the Pixies gained ground.
U] All this time, the conflict was raging between the Brownies and Pixies outside the barricade.
These Pixies will be down upon our camp to-morrow at the furthest.
I fancy their stories about the Pixies are a good deal exaggerated--by fear of course I mean, for Brownies are clear truth always.
One of their camps or villages was located here, and the wearied Pixies were disembarked and comfortably housed.
Moreover, to express the relations of the lower creatures to human life, and their actual as well as imaginary interdependence, human characters were introduced, and conflicts between Pixies and Brownies were interwoven with their behaviour.
This also the Pixies saw, and seemed content to keep near us, without taking further risk.
If not--" Here the Pixies entered one of their tents and the conversation was wholly lost.
Accordingly, the spiders were assigned the part of Pixiesor goblins, the ill-natured fairies of Scotland and Northern England.
I suspect that Jimmy had drunk too much cider," said Lady Eleanor severely; "he should have kept sober or stuck to the road, and then he would not have brought back foolish stories about pixies and witches.
And he was pixy-led all that night, my Lady, was the old Jimmy, and when he come home all his money was gone; so I reckon that the pixies is in league with the witches.
People came to drink them, though less frequently than before; and as the place grew more lonely and deserted, rumours began to float about that the pixies were inimical to man, and that the waters no longer possessed their old power.
But the monastery had fallen into ruins and had disappeared, and after that the pixies were given the credit of the healing waters.
He was said to have dealings with the fairies and the pixies of the forest.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "pixies" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
