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1 I was in want of boots, of clothes, of the whole human varnish that makes a man perceptible.
Andersen's Fairy TalesBy Hans Christian Andersen ContextHighlight In THE SHADOW
2 This took place at his house, in his room; where stood large glass-cases, filled with elegant shoes and brilliant boots.
Andersen's Fairy TalesBy Hans Christian Andersen ContextHighlight In THE RED SHOES
3 Both knew each other: the boy was that one among the children who could not come because he had to go home and return his jacket and boots to the innkeeper's son.
Andersen's Fairy TalesBy Hans Christian Andersen ContextHighlight In THE BELL
4 And so there he lay on the uppermost bank in the vapor-bath; but with all his clothes on, in his boots and galoshes, while the hot drops fell scalding from the ceiling on his face.
Andersen's Fairy TalesBy Hans Christian Andersen ContextHighlight In THE SHOES OF FORTUNE
5 And all the trees were covered with hoar-frost; they looked like white corals; the snow crackled under foot, as if one had new boots on; and one falling star after the other was seen in the sky.
Andersen's Fairy TalesBy Hans Christian Andersen ContextHighlight In THE ELDERBUSH
6 "Now I shall tell you my adventures," said the shadow; and then he sat, with the polished boots, as heavily as he could, on the arm of the learned man's new shadow, which lay like a poodle-dog at his feet.
Andersen's Fairy TalesBy Hans Christian Andersen ContextHighlight In THE SHADOW
7 When she spoke it sounded just like the noise of frogs, or as if one walked with great boots over a moor; always the same tone, so uniform and so tiring that little Tuk fell into a good sound sleep, which, by the bye, could not do him any harm.
Andersen's Fairy TalesBy Hans Christian Andersen ContextHighlight In THE DREAM OF LITTLE TUK
8 He was in the middle of Switzerland, but packed up with eight other passengers in the inside of an eternally-creaking diligence; his head ached till it almost split, his weary neck could hardly bear the heavy load, and his feet, pinched by his torturing boots, were terribly swollen.
Andersen's Fairy TalesBy Hans Christian Andersen ContextHighlight In THE SHOES OF FORTUNE