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1  So they watched the geese till it grew dark.
Grimms' Fairy Tales By Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm
ContextHighlight   In THE GOOSE-GIRL
2  When at last they awoke, it was already dark night.
Grimms' Fairy Tales By Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm
ContextHighlight   In HANSEL AND GRETEL
3  'My house is out there in the dark forest,' he said.
Grimms' Fairy Tales By Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm
ContextHighlight   In THE ROBBER BRIDEGROOM
4  When darkness came on, he saw a light, which he went up to, and came to a house wherein lived a witch.
Grimms' Fairy Tales By Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm
ContextHighlight   In THE BLUE LIGHT
5  Then the slaughterer said he would do as she wished; and cut off the head, and nailed it up under the dark gate.
Grimms' Fairy Tales By Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm
ContextHighlight   In THE GOOSE-GIRL
6  The bird took its flight to a dark wood and remained there for a long time, and meanwhile the parents could hear nothing of their child.
Grimms' Fairy Tales By Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm
ContextHighlight   In THE RAVEN
7  Then he was very angry and sulky, and would not speak to her at all; but they watched the geese until it grew dark in the evening, and then drove them homewards.
Grimms' Fairy Tales By Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm
ContextHighlight   In THE GOOSE-GIRL
8  At length, when it was quite dark, Clever Elsie awoke and when she got up there was a jingling all round about her, and the bells rang at each step which she took.
Grimms' Fairy Tales By Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm
ContextHighlight   In CLEVER ELSIE
9  He travelled about a long time in search of it and came at last to a dark forest, through which he went on walking for fourteen days and still could not find a way out.
Grimms' Fairy Tales By Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm
ContextHighlight   In THE RAVEN
10  But the old king told the boy to go out again the next day: and when morning came, he placed himself behind the dark gate, and heard how she spoke to Falada, and how Falada answered.
Grimms' Fairy Tales By Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm
ContextHighlight   In THE GOOSE-GIRL
11  And when they looked round they found that they had been sleeping quite close to a precipice, and would certainly have fallen into it in the darkness if they had gone only a few paces further.
Grimms' Fairy Tales By Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm
ContextHighlight   In SNOW-WHITE AND ROSE-RED
12  When they had gone forth, he went into the stable, and led the horse out; it was lame of one foot, and limped hobblety jib, hobblety jib; nevertheless he mounted it, and rode away to the dark forest.
Grimms' Fairy Tales By Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm
ContextHighlight   In IRON HANS
13  Frederick of course made no objection to that plan, and they set off into the wood to look for the thieves; but they could not find them: and when it grew dark, they climbed up into a tree to spend the night there.
Grimms' Fairy Tales By Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm
ContextHighlight   In FREDERICK AND CATHERINE
14  But they did not speak, or open the door, so the grey-beard stole twice or thrice round the house, and at last jumped on the roof, intending to wait until Red-Cap went home in the evening, and then to steal after her and devour her in the darkness.
Grimms' Fairy Tales By Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm
ContextHighlight   In LITTLE RED-CAP [LITTLE RED RIDING HOOD]
15  When the wild man had once more reached the dark forest, he took the boy down from his shoulder, and said to him: 'You will never see your father and mother again, but I will keep you with me, for you have set me free, and I have compassion on you.'
Grimms' Fairy Tales By Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm
ContextHighlight   In IRON HANS
16  Then they ran at once to the place, and poked the ends of their sticks into the mouse-hole, but all in vain; Tom only crawled farther and farther in; and at last it became quite dark, so that they were forced to go their way without their prize, as sulky as could be.
Grimms' Fairy Tales By Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm
ContextHighlight   In TOM THUMB
17  She carried her point, and the faithful Falada was killed; but when the true princess heard of it, she wept, and begged the man to nail up Falada's head against a large dark gate of the city, through which she had to pass every morning and evening, that there she might still see him sometimes.
Grimms' Fairy Tales By Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm
ContextHighlight   In THE GOOSE-GIRL
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