A trim, quietly pretty young woman with a scrubbed face, streaky blond hair tied back in a bun and little elfish ears, she was wearing a blue T-shirt turned inside out so that the seams showed but the picture on the front didn't, a long black skirt and chunky shoes.
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But beyond those powers of persuasion and an endearing lack of defensiveness, it is easy to see why Greene gets along so well with troubled children and desperate parents : At first glance, he looks like a child himself, with an elfish grin, a mop of curly dark hair, and warm brown eyes.
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Then, too, Towey has an elfish sense of humor that he did not lose even as volunteer legal counsel for a decade for Mother Teresa _ including asking a coffee shop in 1997 in Nashville, Tenn ., to stop using pictures of a cinnamon roll that looked like Mother Teresa on T-shirts and coffee mugs.
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Tolkien is also responsible for reviving the older and less-used terms " elven " and " elvish " rather than Edmund Spenser's invented " elfin " and " elfish " ( when editors corrected the term to the latter, Tolkien himself was quick to write a correction into the next printing ).
