The Fairy Book: The Best Popular Fairy Stories Selected and Rendered AnewMacmillan, 1868 - 368 páginas |
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... being one day out hunting and stopped in the chase by this formidable wood , inquired what wood it was and what were those towers which he saw appearing out of the midst of it , no one could answer him . At length 4 THE FAIRY BOOK .
... being one day out hunting and stopped in the chase by this formidable wood , inquired what wood it was and what were those towers which he saw appearing out of the midst of it , no one could answer him . At length 4 THE FAIRY BOOK .
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... answer him . At length an old peasant was found who remembered having heard his grandfather say to his father , that in this tower was a princess , beautiful as the day , who was doomed to sleep there for one hundred years , until ...
... answer him . At length an old peasant was found who remembered having heard his grandfather say to his father , that in this tower was a princess , beautiful as the day , who was doomed to sleep there for one hundred years , until ...
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... answered with one voice , " No. " He then ordered his servant to summon twenty - four more of the principal persons , with their wives and children . When they came , they were in all five hundred , men , women , and children . John ...
... answered with one voice , " No. " He then ordered his servant to summon twenty - four more of the principal persons , with their wives and children . When they came , they were in all five hundred , men , women , and children . John ...
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... answered , that , for their parts , they had no thoughts of marrying any one below a duke or an earl at least . Beauty had quite as many offers as her sisters , but she always answered , with the greatest civility , that though she was ...
... answered , that , for their parts , they had no thoughts of marrying any one below a duke or an earl at least . Beauty had quite as many offers as her sisters , but she always answered , with the greatest civility , that though she was ...
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... answered , " I should be glad if you would bring me a rose , for we have none in our garden . " Now Beauty did not indeed wish for a rose , nor anything else , but she only said this that she might not affront her sisters ; otherwise ...
... answered , " I should be glad if you would bring me a rose , for we have none in our garden . " Now Beauty did not indeed wish for a rose , nor anything else , but she only said this that she might not affront her sisters ; otherwise ...
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The Fairy Book: The Best Popular Fairy Stories Selected and Rendered Anew Dinah Maria Mulock Craik Vista de fragmentos - 1882 |
Términos y frases comunes
Abricotina answered asked Avenant beast beautiful began beheld Blue Bird brothers castle child Cinderella clothes court cried crown daughter dear delighted Désirée door dressed dwarf fairy father Fcap fell flew Florina forest Fortunatus frog Furibon gave giant Gilliflower girl gold golden Graciosa Grognon hand handsome happy head heard heart hind Hop-o'-my-thumb Jack killed King Arthur King Charming king's knew lady Lady Cassandra Leander little glass slipper Little One Eye Little Three Eyes Little Two Eyes lived looked madam majesty marry morning mother mountain never night nose Ogre old woman once palace Papillette Patipata Percinet poor prince princess promised queen replied returned Rose servant sisters six swans sleep Snow-white and Rose-red Snowdrop soon stood thou thought told Tom Thumb took tree Troutina voice walked wife wish wood Yellow Dwarf young
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Página 66 - here is the king's son coming with two thousand men to kill you, and to destroy the castle and all that you have.
Página 130 - He arrived at the giant's mansion in the evening, and found the wife standing, as usual, at the door. Jack had disguised himself so completely, that she did not appear to have the least recollection of him ; however, when he pleaded hunger and poverty, in order to gain admittance, he found it very difficult indeed to persuade her. At last he prevailed, and was concealed in the copper. When the giant returned, he said furiously, " I smell fresh meat ! " But Jack felt quite composed, as he had said...
Página 249 - ... the ground beyond, and rolled straight into the water. The King's daughter followed it with her eyes, but it vanished, and the well was deep, so deep that the bottom could not be seen.
Página 130 - I smell fresh meat!" But Jack felt quite composed, as he had said so before, and had been soon satisfied. However, the giant started up suddenly, and, notwithstanding all his wife could say, he searched all round the room. Whilst this was going forward, Jack was exceedingly terrified, wishing himself at home a thousand times; but when the giant approached the copper, and put his hand upon the lid, Jack thought his death was certain. However, nothing happened...
Página 348 - And the more he ate the more he wanted to have, and he said, "Give me some more, you shall have none of it. It seems to me as if it were all mine." And he ate and ate and threw all the bones under the table, until he had finished the whole. But Marlinchen went away to her chest of drawers, and took her best silk handkerchief out of the...
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Página 62 - Jack up in that room, while he went to fetch another giant who lived in the same wood, to enjoy a dinner off Jack's flesh with him. While he was away, Jack heard dreadful shrieks, groans, and cries, from many parts of the castle ; and soon after he heard a mournful voice repeat these lines : — " Haste, valiant stranger, haste away, Lest you become the giant's prey...