(Folklore) fairies that are somewhat mischievous.
Creeping evergreen shrub having narrow overlapping leaves and early white star-shaped flowers; of the pine barrens of New Jersey and the Carolinas.
1 The pixy babies must have a cradle until they are grown up.
2 Them that know Egdon best have been pixy - led here at times.
3 As to the others, what's the difference between a kelpie and a pixy ?
4 He was vaguely conscious of an unwarranted satisfaction in the nearness of this pixy .
5 One is a kelpie, and one is a pixy ; that's about all the difference.
6 And Loomis Pagan, a pixy in gender studies at Wesleyan.
7 I haven't an idea where she came from; she looked like a messenger from pixy - land .
8 The pixy gender studies professor from Wesleyan, I recalled.
9 The tulips are the pixy babies' cradles, it seems.
10 She looked like a messenger from pixy land.
11 The pine needles clicked pixy castanets; and the moon beams sifted through the trees a silver dust.
12 Mortal eyesight is too slow and clumsy a thing to match against the flicker of a pixy - litten fire.
13 There were more pixy babies than usual this spring, and the mothers were in a hurry for the cradles.
14 He seemed to have made his appearance suddenly, like a pixy child, and to have vanished back into Fairyland.
16 Or maybe it sucked power out of another dimension, or out of magical pixy farts for all he knew.
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