Gnomes and fairies of the mines: a solemn race, who nevertheless can laugh most heartily and dance most merrily.
“We [earthmen] work at the mines for men; we put the ore in readiness for the miners.”—Besant and Rice: Titania’s Farewell.
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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.
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