elfin-thin

Updated: January 28, 2026

All these and more, the rank, mighty measure of the soil's fertility low down. Measure of its fertility aloft, the tops of the trees, from which the call of the red-headed woodpecker sounded as faint as the memory of a sound and the bark of the squirrels was elfin-thin.

James Lane Allen - The Reign of Law; a tale of the Kentucky hemp fields