fairy-story

Mr. Daughtry, friend, sir, or whatever I may name you, this is no fairy-story of the open boat, the cross - bearings unnamable, and the treasure a fathom under the sand.

CHAPTER XXI 2010

I still think Oversight is a fairy-story, but we have our own CIs who are interested in perfecting themselves.

Jason Stoddard, Strange and Happy » Blog Archive » Eternal Franchise, 21.2 of 31.1 2009

Statements of that kind may express (in undue abbreviation) some element of truth; but they are not true in a fairy-story sense, they are not true in art or literature.

Oriental Myths and Legends by W. W. Gibbings 2007

Statements of that kind may express (in undue abbreviation) some element of truth; but they are not true in a fairy-story sense, they are not true in art or literature.

Archive 2007-05-01 2007

There is a fairy-story I knew as a child that goes similarly, and seemed to have become the story of my life.

kuniklos Diary Entry kuniklos 2003

The Last Man is an adult fairy-story of plague-destroying deaths, graphic battle-scenes, and impassioned love, in which Mary Shelley reinvents what she lamented in the loss of in much literature of the day.

Radical Imaginings: Mary Shelley's The Last Man 1995

The fairy-story mountains with castles a-top on one side, and the everlasting succession of incredibly blue bays on the other, appealed to him irresistibly.

The White Cottage Mystery Allingham, Margery, 1904-1966. n 50021032-1 1975

At first sight, it was as absurd as a fairy-story or those edifying tales in religious story-books.

Maigret in Society Simenon, Georges, 1903-1989 1962

"Not since my fairy-story days, anyway," she added softly.

The Outdoor Girls at the Hostess House Or, doing their best for the soldiers Laura Lee Hope

He sat beaming on the couch, turning over the pages of a fairy-story book.

Five Fall Into Adventure Blyton, Enid, 1898?-1968 1950