1 I have even got flesh and clothes.
2 I was in want of boots, of clothes, of the whole human varnish that makes a man perceptible.
3 Now Karen was old enough to be confirmed; she had new clothes and was to have new shoes also.
Andersen's Fairy Tales By Hans Christian AndersenContextHighlight In THE RED SHOES 4 The whole city was talking of the splendid cloth which the Emperor had ordered to be woven at his own expense.
Andersen's Fairy Tales By Hans Christian AndersenContextHighlight In THE EMPEROR'S NEW CLOTHES 5 Many years ago, there was an Emperor, who was so excessively fond of new clothes, that he spent all his money in dress.
Andersen's Fairy Tales By Hans Christian AndersenContextHighlight In THE EMPEROR'S NEW CLOTHES 6 They pretended to roll the cloth off the looms; cut the air with their scissors; and sewed with needles without any thread in them.
Andersen's Fairy Tales By Hans Christian AndersenContextHighlight In THE EMPEROR'S NEW CLOTHES 7 What with the rain and the wind, she was in a sad condition; the water trickled down from her hair, and her clothes clung to her body.
Andersen's Fairy Tales By Hans Christian AndersenContextHighlight In THE REAL PRINCESS 8 The Emperor now sent another officer of his court to see how the men were getting on, and to ascertain whether the cloth would soon be ready.
Andersen's Fairy Tales By Hans Christian AndersenContextHighlight In THE EMPEROR'S NEW CLOTHES 9 He had hardly uttered these hasty words when the skirts and sleeves of his coat folded themselves together into wings; the clothes became feathers, and the galoshes claws.
Andersen's Fairy Tales By Hans Christian AndersenContextHighlight In THE SHOES OF FORTUNE 10 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 Tales By Hans Christian AndersenContextHighlight In THE SHOES OF FORTUNE 11 All the people throughout the city had heard of the wonderful property the cloth was to possess; and all were anxious to learn how wise, or how ignorant, their neighbors might prove to be.
Andersen's Fairy Tales By Hans Christian AndersenContextHighlight In THE EMPEROR'S NEW CLOTHES 12 He did not trouble himself in the least about his soldiers; nor did he care to go either to the theatre or the chase, except for the opportunities then afforded him for displaying his new clothes.
Andersen's Fairy Tales By Hans Christian AndersenContextHighlight In THE EMPEROR'S NEW CLOTHES 13 And the swineherd went behind a tree, washed the black and brown color from his face, threw off his dirty clothes, and stepped forth in his princely robes; he looked so noble that the Princess could not help bowing before him.
Andersen's Fairy Tales By Hans Christian AndersenContextHighlight In THE SWINEHERD 14 "I should like to know how the weavers are getting on with my cloth," said the Emperor to himself, after some little time had elapsed; he was, however, rather embarrassed, when he remembered that a simpleton, or one unfit for his office, would be unable to see the manufacture.
Andersen's Fairy Tales By Hans Christian AndersenContextHighlight In THE EMPEROR'S NEW CLOTHES 15 Woodroof and anemonies grew almost too high; blooming convolvuluses and blackberry-bushes hung in long garlands from tree to tree, where the nightingale sang and the sunbeams were playing: it was very beautiful, but it was no place for girls to go; their clothes would get so torn.
16 They gave out that they knew how to weave stuffs of the most beautiful colors and elaborate patterns, the clothes manufactured from which should have the wonderful property of remaining invisible to everyone who was unfit for the office he held, or who was extraordinarily simple in character.
Andersen's Fairy Tales By Hans Christian AndersenContextHighlight In THE EMPEROR'S NEW CLOTHES 17 Accompanied by a select number of officers of the court, among whom were the two honest men who had already admired the cloth, he went to the crafty impostors, who, as soon as they were aware of the Emperor's approach, went on working more diligently than ever; although they still did not pass a single thread through the looms.
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