Word: elfin
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...came to Witch Ziroonderel, his father's friend. Out of 17 thunderbolts which he dug up at her bidding from the soft earth under her cabbages, she fashioned him a sword and enchanted it with runes and bade him be off. So Alvaric set his face toward the Elfin Mountains, whose changeless peaks were the color of forget-me-nots, and in due time passed the frontier of twilight that bordered the fields men knew and was the rampart of Elfland...
Hazel is of different stuff. Tall, scrawny, she has nevertheless a sort of elfin charm. She is afflicted with what she calls "spazzums in her mind," and lives in a world of her own imaginings, populated by fairy princes and deferential dukes. Later in life she becomes "literary," transfers the dukes and princes to foolscap, and eventually pours forth upon the English public a bewildering procession of sentimental books which win thousands of readers but never a reviewer's tribute...
Must aye be slave to the Elfin king...
...body shrunk to the Elfin size...
...face to the Elfin grin...