Word: fairyland
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Dates: during 1894-1894
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...hear them speak in real Brownie language. Each Brownie has been provided with an entirely new wardrobe, and the Dude is the proudest of them all. The Policeman, the Student, the Chinaman, the Twins, and, in fact, all of the familiar family are in the band. Portions of fairyland have been brought along with them, so that every one can see precisely how the Brownies live, what they do from day to day, how they overcome trouble, and it will be especially interesting to note these first authentic views of real fairyland that will surround them...
...inspired twaddle, and must have his wits shaken up and put in motion by stumbling over some jutting sentence in a book he was loitering through. Or sometimes it was a derangement in his own bodily economy that set his fancy going, and it is wonderful into what a fairyland of agreeable and even profound suggestion he contrived to blunder, through the bypath of a pain in the stomach or a fall from his horse. Montaigne more than any other, perhaps, carried the substance of his thread, as the spider does, in himself, and each of his Essays...