'What is the use,' replied the other, 'of being Prince of the
Gnomes, and having a mother who is queen over all the four elements, if I cannot win the love of the Princess Argentine?
In it the poet invokes Athena to protect certain potters and their craft, if they will, according to promise, give him a reward for his song; if they prove false, malignant
gnomes are invoked to wreck the kiln and hurt the potters.
Mountain Glens.- Wandering Band of Savages- Anecdotes of Shoshon- ies and Flatheads.- Root Diggers- Their Solitary Lurking Habits.-
Gnomes of the Mountains.- Wind River.- Scarcity of Food.-Alteration of Route.-The Pilot Knobs or Tetons.- Branch of the Colorado.
They have peopled all that region with
gnomes, and dwarfs, and all sorts of mysterious and uncanny creatures.
His underlings, two
gnomes with square faces, leather aprons, and linen breeches, were moving the iron instruments on the coals.
We, too, were Fire-Men, we thought, as we danced there, white
gnomes in the conflagration.
"Strikes me you're a bit of star-dust yourself, flung into a world of cowled
gnomes who cannot see," was his comment at the end of it.
I began to think of genii, sylphs,
gnomes, in short, of all the ministers of the occult sciences, until I laughed aloud at the freaks of my own imagination.
There are zigzag lines on it, just like your temperature on a card, and these are probably roads in the island, for the Neverland is always more or less an island, with astonishing splashes of colour here and there, and coral reefs and rakish-looking craft in the offing, and savages and lonely lairs, and
gnomes who are mostly tailors, and caves through which a river runs, and princes with six elder brothers, and a hut fast going to decay, and one very small old lady with a hooked nose.
The angels that inhabit this temple of the body appear at the windows, and the
gnomes and vices also.
Whether any treasure were ever actually buried at that place; whether, if so, it were carried off at night by those who had buried it; or whether it still remains there under the guardianship of
gnomes and spirits until it shall be properly sought for, is all matter of conjecture.
They looked like kobolds from some magic mine -
gnomes of the hills in conclave.