Snow-white daisies and the delicate little hare-bell came also into view at intervals, struggling for a brief, sad existence, unless the elfin crew consoled them beneath the moon's pale ray.
"Due North or Glimpses of Scandinavia and Russia"
Maturin M. Ballou
It may be that the musician desired a contrast, or that he was merely feeling for command of the instrument, for the plaintive melody that ran from shift to shift into a thin elfin wailing far up the sobbing strings broke off suddenly, and was followed by the crisp jar of crashing chords.
"The Greater Power"
Harold Bindloss W. Herbert Dunton
Even the tiny grasses make elfin music when everything is still.
"A Prairie Courtship"
Harold Bindloss