1 And the children clapped their hands, and cried.
Andersen's Fairy Tales By Hans Christian AndersenContextHighlight In THE FIR TREE 2 They were not elfin maidens, but mortal children.
Andersen's Fairy Tales By Hans Christian AndersenContextHighlight In THE SNOW QUEEN 3 "Yes, I have seen it," said both the children; and so they knew that it was true.
Andersen's Fairy Tales By Hans Christian AndersenContextHighlight In THE SNOW QUEEN 4 He has a home, a wife, and children, who weep with him over his sorrows, who rejoice with him when he is glad.
Andersen's Fairy Tales By Hans Christian AndersenContextHighlight In THE SHOES OF FORTUNE 5 The church-bells rang, and the children recognised the high towers, and the large town; it was that in which they dwelt.
Andersen's Fairy Tales By Hans Christian AndersenContextHighlight In THE SNOW QUEEN 6 '"'And their children also have children,' said the old sailor; 'yes, those are our grand-children, full of strength and vigor.'
Andersen's Fairy Tales By Hans Christian AndersenContextHighlight In THE ELDERBUSH 7 In the court-yard some of the merry children were playing who had danced at Christmas round the Fir Tree, and were so glad at the sight of him.
Andersen's Fairy Tales By Hans Christian AndersenContextHighlight In THE FIR TREE 8 And the children held each other by the hand, kissed the roses, looked up at the clear sunshine, and spoke as though they really saw angels there.
Andersen's Fairy Tales By Hans Christian AndersenContextHighlight In THE SNOW QUEEN 9 The children's parents had large wooden boxes there, in which vegetables for the kitchen were planted, and little rosetrees besides: there was a rose in each box, and they grew splendidly.
Andersen's Fairy Tales By Hans Christian AndersenContextHighlight In THE SNOW QUEEN 10 He did not think of the warm sun and of the fresh air; he did not care for the little cottage children that ran about and prattled when they were in the woods looking for wild-strawberries.
Andersen's Fairy Tales By Hans Christian AndersenContextHighlight In THE FIR TREE 11 The children danced about with their beautiful playthings; no one looked at the Tree except the old nurse, who peeped between the branches; but it was only to see if there was a fig or an apple left that had been forgotten.
Andersen's Fairy Tales By Hans Christian AndersenContextHighlight In THE FIR TREE 12 Then they played in a side avenue, and marked out a little garden on the earth; and they took Elder-blossoms from their hair, planted them, and they grew just like those the old people planted when they were children, as related before.
Andersen's Fairy Tales By Hans Christian AndersenContextHighlight In THE ELDERBUSH 13 The boxes were very high, and the children knew that they must not creep over them; so they often obtained permission to get out of the windows to each other, and to sit on their little stools among the roses, where they could play delightfully.
Andersen's Fairy Tales By Hans Christian AndersenContextHighlight In THE SNOW QUEEN 14 The roses on the leads hung blooming in at the open window; there stood the little children's chairs, and Kay and Gerda sat down on them, holding each other by the hand; they both had forgotten the cold empty splendor of the Snow Queen, as though it had been a dream.
Andersen's Fairy Tales By Hans Christian AndersenContextHighlight In THE SNOW QUEEN 15 Soon after came their children, and their grand-children; for they knew well enough that it was the day of the fiftieth anniversary, and had come with their gratulations that very morning; but the old people had forgotten it, although they were able to remember all that had happened many years ago.
Andersen's Fairy Tales By Hans Christian AndersenContextHighlight In THE ELDERBUSH 16 In a large town, where there are so many houses, and so many people, that there is no roof left for everybody to have a little garden; and where, on this account, most persons are obliged to content themselves with flowers in pots; there lived two little children, who had a garden somewhat larger than a flower-pot.
Andersen's Fairy Tales By Hans Christian AndersenContextHighlight In THE SNOW QUEEN 17 Lake Thracymene, illumined by the evening sun, lay like flaming gold between the dark-blue mountain-ridges; here, where Hannibal defeated Flaminius, the rivers now held each other in their green embraces; lovely, half-naked children tended a herd of black swine, beneath a group of fragrant laurel-trees, hard by the road-side.
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