"mound" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- In Ireland they are called sidhe, or fairy mounds, and are purportedly the homes of the little people.
- Lexicographers have traced the name to the Gaelic word for "fairy mound."
- While they are there, the cousins challenge an ancient law by sleeping in a fairy mound.
- Fairies were thought to steal humans on Samhain and fairy mounds were to be avoided.
- They crossed the path through the herb garden and descended into me dark of the fairy mounds.
- You'll never find me disturbing a fairy mound.
- Legend claims they were driven "under the hills" into "fairy mounds."
- The sounds of mermaids singing, or in some versions, music from a fairy mound cause her to leap into the water and drown.
- They are said to live underground in fairy mounds, across the western sea, or in an invisible world that coexists with the world of humans.
- A proper fairy mound it is, no doubt.
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