The Fairy Book: The Best Popular Fairy Stories Selected and Rendered AnewMacmillan, 1868 - 368 páginas |
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... whole story has been written afresh . The few real old English fairy tales , such as Jack the Giant Killer , Tom Thumb , & c . whose author- ship is lost in obscurity , but whose charming Saxon simplicity of style , and intense realism ...
... whole story has been written afresh . The few real old English fairy tales , such as Jack the Giant Killer , Tom Thumb , & c . whose author- ship is lost in obscurity , but whose charming Saxon simplicity of style , and intense realism ...
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... whole house , and always bore the blame of everything that was done wrong . For all this , Hop - o ' - my - thumb was far more clever than any of his brothers ; and though he spoke but little , he heard and knew more than people thought ...
... whole house , and always bore the blame of everything that was done wrong . For all this , Hop - o ' - my - thumb was far more clever than any of his brothers ; and though he spoke but little , he heard and knew more than people thought ...
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... whole sheep roasting for the Ogre's supper . When they had stood a short time by the fire , there came a loud knocking at the door : this was the Ogre come home . His wife hurried the children under the bed , and told them to lie still ...
... whole sheep roasting for the Ogre's supper . When they had stood a short time by the fire , there came a loud knocking at the door : this was the Ogre come home . His wife hurried the children under the bed , and told them to lie still ...
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... whole country . She had two daughters exactly like herself in all things . He also had one little girl , who resembled her dead mother , the best woman in all the world . Scarcely had the second marriage taken place , than the step ...
... whole country . She had two daughters exactly like herself in all things . He also had one little girl , who resembled her dead mother , the best woman in all the world . Scarcely had the second marriage taken place , than the step ...
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... whole time in deciding what they should wear ; a source of new trouble to Cinderella , whose duty it was to get up their fine linen and laces , and who never could please them however much she tried . They talked of nothing but their ...
... whole time in deciding what they should wear ; a source of new trouble to Cinderella , whose duty it was to get up their fine linen and laces , and who never could please them however much she tried . They talked of nothing but their ...
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The Fairy Book: The Best Popular Fairy Stories Selected and Rendered Anew Dinah Maria Mulock Craik Vista de fragmentos - 1882 |
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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...