| Suddenly jumping into a sprint, he raced over to the elf just as the dragon opened its mouth. |
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| We cannot be together because a human and an elf are not meant to fall in love. |
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| Here, I got a great view of an elf owl and marveled at the way its plumage blended in with the tree trunk behind him. |
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| Several owl boxes will attract elf owls and would give you a better chance to see those elusive creatures. |
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| His darkness and mystery were personified in the character being a Vampiric elf. |
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| It was very warm indeed under the coats with the young elf cuddling up against him. |
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| The elf smiled, concentrating for a moment, then glanced up, tracing one hand across invisible arcane symbols in graceful, fluent motions. |
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| Tredias flirted with the idea of seeking revenge against the elf king, but it didn't matter now. |
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| From the side of his vision, Rowan saw another dark elf emerge from the smooth wall, an invisible spell he concluded had kept it from sight. |
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| The elf clutched the small conch shell in one hand and whispered a thank you to her friend. |
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| Maybe it's my own fault for reading books that don't feature an elf or an alien on the cover. |
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| The dark elf seemed ill at ease among the buildings, and clung close to One Nine's shaggy thigh. |
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| Before the elf could answer, however, there was a loud roar of anger, a terrifying clash of metal, and a feminine scream. |
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| She was older, even by elf standards, and had grey hair and skin like old parchment. |
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| He was an elf of great bearing, every bit the chivalrous knight and mentor. |
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| Now hobbits and men and elf and dwarf are scattered across Middle Earth, the story jumping back and forth between them. |
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| Fielding himself could be a changeling, or some mischief-making elf out to screw with everyone's minds. |
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| He had prided himself on being a strong swimmer, even for an elf, but this girl was easily outdistancing him. |
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| The elf cast a jaundiced eye over the blackened mountain, which was still oozing lava. |
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| The dark elf approached the plant, a Venus flytrap, and released the fly to the air. |
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| The light over the Venus flytrap was dim, but still far more than a dark elf preferred. |
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| The poor girl must have been only thirteen, with short brown hair, a snub nose and the pointed ears of an elf. |
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| Raising his arms, the sky elf invoked a powerful dust devil with his magical control of the wind. |
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| We elves patrol throughout the Black Wood, and well into the bounds of the ancient elf kingdom, including the Marshes where you are from. |
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| With a growl, she commenced pursuit of the elf, finally diving, catching him off-guard, and tripping him so both stumbled to the ground. |
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| Some are Tolkienesque games where you might be an elf or a dwarf fighting against dragons and goblins. |
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| I would wear hairpieces to school, and for Christmas I wore my Santa elf costume with thigh-high red boots. |
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| Once the coast was clear the elf leaped gracefully from the tree and Miaku followed. |
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| With a blood curdling cry, the elf lunged for me but I parried her attack and stepped out of the way, just like the many times in practice. |
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| And he saw the unmistakable hilt of a finely crafted sword protruding from the scabbard on the belt of a tall, golden-haired elf. |
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| He was a strong and rugged elf who could often appear aggressive, but was truly kind and noble at heart. |
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| Their food and water supplies were dangerously low and the elf rationed it harshly. |
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| Clisi knew that one of the others could not be with a faerie or elf without losing their immortality and agelessness. |
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| The stars shone down on the camp and just past the tree line, a graceful elf with golden hair stood. |
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| Pandora had never seen a girl elf or a young elf and wondered if they also had long white beads. |
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| The dragon was angry with the elf and swore he would make his life miserable if he could. |
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| An elf, one of the purest creatures on earth, would pass away all alone in the wood. |
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| Hope they don't skip over the part where the elf and dwarf bet over how many orcs they can kill. |
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| As an elf, she had a great love of nature so she felt it was her mission to keep these plants alive. |
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| My face is small and sharp, like an elf, with a pointed nose and chin. |
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| Your mother was an outcast elf princess who was shunned from her kingdom. |
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| In person, the foreboding man in the trench coat on the back cover of The Manhattan Hunt Club is a jovial, mischievous elf with a wicked sense of humor and a love of gossip. |
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| Ex-sexy elf Orlando Bloom, without even putting on his Legolas weave, turns Justin Bieber-punching Everyman. |
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| The relationship between the elf princess Arwen and the mortal Aragorn is padded out, as one might expect of a blockbuster with no other love interest. |
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| The actress won Golden Globe and Bafta awards for her lead role in 1998 film Elizabeth, and she plays the elf queen Galadriel in the Lord of the Rings film trilogy. |
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| The form of the majestic eagle grew dim, flickering blurrily, until superimposed upon it appeared the image of a noble, high-browed elf with hair of dark umber. |
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| You can be anything that you wish, such as an undine or elf. |
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| Klessa's voice sounded like a donkey's bray next to the voice of the elf, and that as well as the words she said snapped Rilleta out of her dreamy mood. |
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| Dragon skins hung in some parish churches and ploughing regularly turned up elf arrows, little-worked flints of great delicacy. |
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| I envisioned a young squirt of an elf, say just a sprightly 100 or 200 years, slipping out to meet his miscreant pals, grab a leaf and ride a wind current. |
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| Again, each child was welcomed by a smiling elf who brought them to the cubicle where a warm, friendly Santa tried every trick in the book to charm my youngster. |
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| When you're a special sort of elf, like Sy, something as simple as watching people having a conversation could become a polychromatic piece of art. |
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| I remember the days when we got a bike with wheels that fell off after five minutes and your da tells you that Santa must've had a bad elf working for him. |
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| This wandering elf is a deadeye shot and accomplished woodsman. |
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| We discussed designing a robot avatar for the new world, but we were quickly divided about whether the robot should be modelled after a high elf wizard or a gnomish rogue. |
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| Still, this Tim Burton live-action animation is a stocking stuffer for any elf with a sense of humor. |
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| Reconstructing the early concept of an elf depends almost entirely on texts in Old English or relating to Norse mythology. |
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| Saguaro National Park boasts Many birds, including Gila woodpecker, gilded flicker, cactus wren, phainopepla, and elf and screech owls. |
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| Maybe his elf hormones and human hormones had gotten all mixed up, turning him into a were-elf or something. |
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| In Rick Riordan's novel The Hammer of Thor, Hearthstone, an elf, must pay a wergild for his brother Andriron's death when they were children. |
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| When he finds out that he is not an elf, Santa allows him to go to New York City to find his birth father, Walter Hobbs. |
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| Humans being invited or lured to the elf dance is a common motif transferred from older Scandinavian ballads. |
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| Like words for gods and men, the word elf is used in personal names where words for monsters and demons are not. |
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| After the Middle Ages, the word elf tended to be replaced by other terms, becoming archaic, dialectal, or surviving only in fossilised terms. |
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| Throughout the medieval Germanic languages, elf was one of the nouns that was used in personal names, almost invariably as a first element. |
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| Although this word took a variety of forms in different Old English dialects, these converged on the form elf during the Middle English period. |
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| It is important to me that my children grow up knowing the sounds of spring peepers and the joy of finding a red elf in the woods. |
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| In Scandinavia, the Romantic movement was also prominent, and literary writing was the main context for continued use of the word elf except in fossilised words for illnesses. |
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| My face I'll grime with filth, blanket my loins, elf all my hairs in knots, and with presented nakedness outface the winds and persecutions of the sky. |
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| German Romanticist writers were influenced by this notion of the 'elf', and reimported the English word elf in that context into the German language. |
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| While that works in a movie as unreal as Anchorman or Elf, it feels out of place in an alleged family comedy. |
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| Elf is a charmingly daffy movie that feels like a leap back in time to more genuinely heart-warming Christmas fare. |
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| As most of the passengers were settling down, Elf began a retrospect of the events of the past months. |
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| Elf used a system of split commissions as a way of maintaining French influence and later subsidising Gaullist political activities. |
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| Under the experimental conditions, the increase in ELF volume is greater than the apparent net weight gain of the lung. |
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| European oil companies Shell and Elf pulled out last year unconvinced of the project's viability. |
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| It was amazing what six and a half doctored hot toddies could do to an Elf. |
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| The HAARP antenna as is it now configured modulates the auroral electrojet to induce ELF waves and thus could have an effect on the zonal winds. |
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| As the Elf army pushed forward, a sea of blood, bodies and gore was left behind. |
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| I saw slowly that I was staring at an Elf, I struggled once more to get the gag from my mouth, when he gently removed it and silently offered me a taste of water. |
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| As pointed out in the oversight committee's report, most of the research studies found no effects from ELF exposure. |
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| She was crouched, waiting, next to another Elf and a hawk lycanthrope as other Elves moved across bridges, in and out of trees, all hooded with their weapons concealed. |
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| Meanwhile, the worthy sorceress roused the Faerie prince and the light Elf from their luxurious slumbers with the aid of a cooking skillet and a wooden spoon. |
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| They were rubbish elves, like the ones in the film Elf, with no combat skills, and consequently were no match for Rudolph's death ray. |
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| Since then, the role of ELF fields incancer has been debated among those studying electromagnetic fields, with the power industry challenging the existence of such a link. |
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| The role of elves as Santa's helpers has continued to be popular, as evidenced by the success of the popular Christmas movie Elf. |
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| Elf is pegged as a Christmas movie, but it hardly feels religious. |
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| Lubricated and fueled by Elf, the nationalized purveyor of French motion lotion, the RE30B is on the verge of becoming perhaps unbeatable. |
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| It came down to Happy the Elf, Bad King Wenceslas and the Knitcracker. |
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| Coming, Cotter says, are ELF trucks, a hot rod, a pedicab and a catering version with solar panels providing power to keep food either hot or cold. |
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| Mental rotation task performance results suggest that the ELF MF exposure studied here modulates associated neuroprocessing, although the behavioural outcome is not altered. |
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| The Open Geospatial Consortium joins EUROSDR, AGILE, JRC and ELF in presenting an important technical workshop focused on the geospatial elements of data models. |
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