| Maa-alused, in Estonian folk religion, mysterious elflike small folk living under the earth. |
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| Donfrey's kids had also seemed great, two elflike androgynes politely debating something, possibly the history of the Supreme Court? |
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| A wizened, elflike man at Verna's lunchtime table grumbles that he hopes they'll be seeing something more exciting than rocks. |
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| The main differences are in the opposite orientation of life, in which up becomes down and right becomes left, and in the diminution of all things possessed by the elflike creatures. |
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| He finds the Eloi, large-eyed, elflike beings who wear fey garments, eat only fruit, and sleep in crumbling stone halls built by some previous civilization. |
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| Venturing into the forest, we chance upon a wooden cabin where small, elflike people are busy sorting Christmas mail. |
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