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1  The good advice was followed, and a pot of fat was bought, but they did not know where to put it.
Grimms' Fairy Tales By Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm
ContextHighlight   In CAT AND MOUSE IN PARTNERSHIP
2  Soon in came buyers, who paid him handsomely for his goods, so that he bought leather enough for four pair more.
Grimms' Fairy Tales By Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm
ContextHighlight   In THE ELVES AND THE SHOEMAKER
3  However, the king hoped still to save his dear child altogether from the threatened evil; so he ordered that all the spindles in the kingdom should be bought up and burnt.
Grimms' Fairy Tales By Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm
ContextHighlight   In BRIAR ROSE
4  The same day a customer came in, and the shoes suited him so well that he willingly paid a price higher than usual for them; and the poor shoemaker, with the money, bought leather enough to make two pairs more.
Grimms' Fairy Tales By Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm
ContextHighlight   In THE ELVES AND THE SHOEMAKER
5  They lived on this as long as it lasted; and then her husband bought a fresh lot of ware, and she sat herself down with it in the corner of the market; but a drunken soldier soon came by, and rode his horse against her stall, and broke all her goods into a thousand pieces.
Grimms' Fairy Tales By Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm
ContextHighlight   In KING GRISLY-BEARD
6  And when the time came for him to go home, he had bought pearls and jewels for the two eldest, but he had sought everywhere in vain for the rose; and when he went into any garden and asked for such a thing, the people laughed at him, and asked him whether he thought roses grew in snow.
Grimms' Fairy Tales By Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm
ContextHighlight   In LILY AND THE LION
7  Then he bought for the first two the fine clothes and pearls and diamonds they had asked for: and on his way home, as he rode through a green copse, a hazel twig brushed against him, and almost pushed off his hat: so he broke it off and brought it away; and when he got home he gave it to his daughter.
Grimms' Fairy Tales By Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm
ContextHighlight   In ASHPUTTEL