fairy story

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Noun	1.	fairy story - a story about fairies; told to amuse children fairy tale, fairytale narration, narrative, story, tale - a message that tells the particulars of an act or occurrence or course of events; presented in writing or drama or cinema or as a radio or television program; "his narrative was interesting"; "Disney's stories entertain adults as well as children" Bluebeard - (fairytale) a monstrous villain who marries seven women; he kills the first six for disobedience
	2.	fairy story - an interesting but highly implausible story; often told as an excuse cock-and-bull story, fairy tale, fairytale, song and dance fib, taradiddle, tarradiddle, tale, story - a trivial lie; "he told a fib about eating his spinach"; "how can I stop my child from telling stories?"

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Now I'm going to tuck you up in the shawl and give you the fir pillow, and while you sleep I am going down on the shore and write a fairy story for you.

This is Rebecca's fairy story, copied the next day and given to Emily Maxwell just as she was going to her room for the night.

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"I only chanced to think of an absurd little fairy story I read the other day," I said, "which is quite irrelevant at the moment.

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And I told him a lovely fairy story while we were waiting, so he didn't find the time long at all.

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"It sounds like a fairy story," was the Justice's comment.

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"You look like a milkmaid in a fairy story," said Philip, as he shook hands with her.

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This is no fairy story and no joke; the meat would be shoveled into carts, and the man who did the shoveling would not trouble to lift out a rat even when he saw one-- there were things that went into the sausage in comparison with which a poisoned rat was a tidbit.

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She had just remembered a French fairy story she had once read called "Riquet a la Houppe." It had been about a poor hunchback and a beautiful princess and it had made her suddenly sorry for Mr.

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That's a fairy story the grafters shove at you every time they want to rob you some more."

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Tolkien himself, of course, deserves a great deal credit for bringing magical stories back to adult audiences--through the international success of his own epic fairy story, The Lord of the Rings.

Into the Woods: A Writer's Journey through Fairy Tales and Fantasy

Reading like a modern day fairy story, this is perfect escapism.

Books The Birdwatcher William Shaw [...]

The waking world within his stories often act as metaphor for the reader's own reality, with the dreaming, fairy world becoming his own literal fairy story. Which world do we want to live in?