Queen Mab

But so far as reality of impression is concerned, the visible Indians are none of them so memorable as the old woman called Queen Mab, who never appears in person and who exists chiefly as a symbol of a race vanquished and yet still clinging to its old domains with a tenacity that is poetic.

Chapter 1. The Beginnings of Fiction. Section 1. Arguments and Experiments 1921

Stands tiptoe on the misty mountain tops "; and in Shelley's" Queen Mab, "--

Elementary Guide to Literary Criticism 1891

But I know many, many people whose structural comprehension of automotive engineering is just barely past the belief that Queen Mab and her invisible fairies tow the thing along when you summon them with the vroomy noises.

Making Light: The lily knows not why it blossoms in the spring 2010

Of course with these guys running around we see the return of Michael Carpenter, one of the Knights of the Cross and many of the more interesting of sideline characters like The Archive and Queen Mab from the Winter Court of Faerie.

Archive 2008-11-01 Michael Natale 2008

Of course with these guys running around we see the return of Michael Carpenter, one of the Knights of the Cross and many of the more interesting of sideline characters like The Archive and Queen Mab from the Winter Court of Faerie.

Review: Small Favor, Jim Butcher Michael Natale 2008

Of course with these guys running around we see the return of Michael Carpenter, one of the Knights of the Cross and many of the more interesting of sideline characters like The Archive and Queen Mab from the Winter Court of Faerie.

Review: Small Favor, Jim Butcher Michael Natale 2008

He called the girl Lady Mab, and Queen Mab, and once plain Mabel, and the old woman he called Miss Cass.

The Duke's Children 2004

I can never endure hearing the dreams of others, and thus I cannot suffer myself to inflict them on my hearers; but on that night, Queen Mab, like Jehu, drove her horses furiously.

Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 55, No. 341, March, 1844 Various

They are also sometimes named 'Mab pipes,' or 'Queen's pipes,' from the same fairy majesty, Queen Mab.

Tobacco; Its History, Varieties, Culture, Manufacture and Commerce E. R. Billings

Above all I gloried in the declamations of Queen Mab, which sanctioned by high poetic authority the waste of my affections and my moody defiance of life's most salutary law.

Apologia Diffidentis 1905