The police chief said officers had seized a trove of stolen property, " everything from firearms through to garden gnomes, " the elfish figurines that many Britons use as outdoor decorations.
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Cohan, the jittery elfish figure who bought the Warriors just in time to supervise their sinking, has not yet had to deal with astronomical sums like the ones being bandied about these last few days.
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Short and rotund with an elfish grin and a warm, bubbling personality, Libensky was also a bit of a showman, given to greeting students and lecture audiences with outstretched arms and a cry of " fantasticky ."
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Philip Nel of Kansas State University notes that " Rowling, who worked for Amnesty International, evokes her social activism through Hermione's passion for oppressed elves and the formation of her'Society for the Promotion of Elfish Welfare'".
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Weaponry has never had a more beautiful representation than in this museum's tribute to the early Spanish explorers : a suit of armor with hammered angles, guns inlaid with mother of pearl and firing arms with etchings of elfish faces and bunnies.
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Elfish and steely eyed, DeLay, a onetime executive of a pest exterminating company in Sugar Land and Texas statehouse politician, has created a reputation as a respected and feared adversary, both in Congress and in the world of well-heeled lobbyists.
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Here are mine : I read the books in the late'60s, and while I can't remember every elfish rune or recite the major characters'genealogy, the books were so powerful that something in them has remained with me ever since.
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On a recent Wednesday, a crowd gathered around Nobl, an elfish man in a suit and a beret, and after being convinced that he was not there to bilk pedestrians, some asked him for pencils, notepads and calculators to scribble some solutions.
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The Spanish daily El Mundo promised heads would roll for last Friday night's incident in which Basque protesters dressed as the elfish mascot of the Seville games spent about 20 minutes on stage with placards urging the government to move separatist prisoners closer to home.
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During her time at Hogwarts, Hermione Granger establishes S . P . E . W . ( the'Society for the Promotion of Elfish Welfare') to champion House-elves'rights; but gained little interest from her classmates or the House-elves themselves.
