Hans Andersen's Fairy Tales(25K) |
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beautiful beneath bird blue brothers burdock castle Cattegat child Christian priest clouds cockchafer cold creature cried dark dead deep duck duckling earth eggs Egypt Eliza emperor eyes Fata Morgana feathers fell felt field-mouse flew flowers foam forest frog garden glittered gold green hands head heard heart Hedeby Helga immortal soul king kissed knew land leaf little maiden little mermaid live looked lord-in-waiting mamma stork marsh mole moor moorland morning mother neck nest never night nightingale ostrich palace poor little pretty prince princess rose round sang seemed seen ship shone sing sisters sleep soldier song stood stork-mamma stork-papa swallow swam swan's plumage swans swindlers tears thou thought Thumbelina tinder-box toad told trees Tweet ugly Ugly Duckling Viking Viking's wife warm waves whole wild wild swans window wings witch woman young
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Page 153 - Nightingale is the best of all!" "it stood written there. "What's that?" exclaimed the Emperor. "I don't know the Nightingale at all! Is there such a bird in my empire, and even in my garden? I've never heard of that. To think that I should have to learn such a thing for the first time from books!
Page 8 - The little one stretched out her hand towards them, and the match went out. The Christmas lights rose higher and higher, till they looked to her like the stars in the sky. Then she saw a star fall, leaving behind a bright streak of fire. "Some one is dying...
Page 107 - Halloo, you shoemaker's boy! you needn't be in such a hurry," cried the soldier to him : " it will not begin till I come. But if you will run to where I lived, and bring me my tinder-box, you shall have four shillings ; but you must put your best leg foremost." The shoemaker's boy wanted to get the four shillings, so he went and brought the tinder-box, and — well, we shall hear now what happened.
Page 102 - She is not to be seen at all," said they all together ; " she lives in a great copper castle, with a great many walls and towers round about it : no one but the king may go in and out there, for it has been prophesied that she shall marry a common soldier, and the King can't bear that."
Page 58 - Thank you, pretty little maiden," said the sick swallow; "I have been so nicely warmed, that I shall soon regain my strength, and be able to fly about again in the warm sunshine." "Oh," said she, "it is cold out of doors now; it snows and freezes. Stay in your warm bed; I will take care of you.
Page 109 - and the boys whistled through their fingers, and the soldiers presented arms. The Princess came out of the copper castle, and became Queen, and she liked that well enough.
Page 9 - And the matches burned with such a glow that it became brighter than in the middle of the day; grandmother had never been so large or so beautiful. She took the little girl in her arms, and both flew in brightness and joy above...
Page 159 - Here is no doubt a new book about our celebrated bird," said the emperor. But instead of a book, it was a...
Page 84 - To be born in a duck's nest, in a farmyard, is of no consequence to a bird, if it is hatched from a swan's egg.
Page 8 - Now some one is dying," thought the little girl, for her old grandmother, the only person who had...