Which preposition to use with fairy

of Occurrences 54%

A child who had heard of St. Cuthbert as a shepherd boy being carried home from the hillside when hurt, by a man on a white horse, repeated the story in her own words, "and he thought it was a fairy of God's sent to help him.

in Occurrences 41%

There were a score of the Caribees in Castle Winder, and to these the boy came as a good fairy in the tale.

to Occurrences 11%

It was as the abode of a fairy to hima mystic chamber of splendour and delight.

for Occurrences 8%

Their petticoats, for instance, were composed of the fox-glove, a flower in demand among Irish fairies for their gloves, and in some parts of that country for their caps, where it is nicknamed "Lusmore," while the Cuscuta epithymum is known in Jersey as "fairies' hair."

with Occurrences 7%

The marvellous mingles with the supernatural, magicians with saints, fairies with angels.

than Occurrences 4%

I am almost afraid to touch you, lest I should hurt you unawares; lest tenderness itself should transgress the limit of legal cruelty, and do grave bodily harm to a creature so much more like a fairy than a woman!"

on Occurrences 4%

We are all fairies on that turf, and I will take you with me to fairy land and shew you some fairy wonders.

from Occurrences 4%

"Oh, but then," said a Fairy from behind, "is there no danger of your regular beauty, as you call her, getting as tired of being beautiful as you are, and wishing herself ugly too?

at Occurrences 4%

If the speed of the Fairy herself had to be increased to 22.29 knots, the power would have to be increased in the proportion of the cube of 13 to the cube of 22.49, or 5.2 times, which makes the power necessary to propel the Fairy at that speed equal to 624 nominal horses power.

into Occurrences 3%

From this he had been set free by the lady with whom he was destined to fall in love; he had then been inveigled by a wicked fairy into her tower, and set free by a good one; and now he was on his travels through the world, to seek his mistress and pursue knightly adventures.

among Occurrences 3%

"Oh, but, you know, it was positively criminal negligence not to have included a dozen fairies among my sponsors.

like Occurrences 2%

The fairies like me better than Mr. Yeats; they can take me in more.

without Occurrences 1%

Now there were thirteen fairies in his kingdom, and he had only twelve golden dishes for them to eat out of, so that he was obliged to leave one of the fairies without an invitation.

as Occurrences 1%

In the "Tempest" (v. i) Prospero invokes the fairies as the "demi-puppets" that: "By moonshine do the green sour ringlets make, Whereof the ewe not bites; and you, whose pastime Is to make midnight mushrooms.

beside Occurrences 1%

"To-day at dawn I was out alone, I found a wee fairy beside a stone; And he said, as he looked at me, far above him, 'Ah, Ken, you have only begun to love him!'

by Occurrences 1%

Thou soft flowing Avon, by thy silver stream Of things more than mortal sweet Shakespeare would dream; The fairies by moonlight dance round his green bed, For hallowed the turf is which pillowed his head. GARRICK.

out Occurrences 1%

Jack insisted on having them laid across his knee She was not a fairy out of a play, as he knew by her conversation.

under Occurrences 1%

This is what he read: "At eight o'clock on the day you were born, I found a fairy under a thorn; He looked at me hard, he looked at me queerly, And he said, 'Ah, Ken, you shall love him dearly.'

underneath Occurrences 1%

And still he had not seen the Irishwoman; in front of him now, for she had stepped into the river just before Tom, and had changed into the most beautiful of fairies underneath the water.

about Occurrences 1%

I saw her whisper to the Bassett, who sat on her right, and the Bassett nodded sadly and looked like a fairy about to shed a tear and add another star to the Milky Way.

Which preposition to use with  fairy