"Fairy story" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... anything," said Klein. "That's his trouble. He's clever, but he doesn't know much. I guess he only began to read books a couple years ago. They excite him too much. He wouldn't read a fairy story. He'd think he ...
— The Beauty and the Bolshevist • Alice Duer Miller
... nothing of the world. It is like reading a fairy story to look at you and hear you speak. I hope—I hope the ...
— The Guinea Stamp - A Tale of Modern Glasgow • Annie S. Swan
... with a relieved face and a broadening smile, "it's a sort of fairy story. I'll bet, now, it was that old ...
— In a Hollow of the Hills • Bret Harte
... a fairy story," agreed Button-Bright. "Anyhow, it's a magic story, and the funny part of it is, it's true. I hope you believe me, but I don't know as I'd believe it myself if it hadn't been me that ...
— Sky Island - Being the further exciting adventures of Trot and Cap'n - Bill after their visit to the sea fairies • L. Frank Baum
... the young of the world to pleasant languor; and a morning came that was like a brightly coloured picture in a child's fairy story. Miss Margaret Schofield, reclining in a hammock upon the front porch, was beautiful in the eyes of a newly made senior, well favoured and in fair raiment, beside her. A guitar rested lightly upon his knee, and he was trying ...
— Penrod • Booth Tarkington
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