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1  "One must dress according to the weather," said she.
Andersen's Fairy Tales By Hans Christian Andersen
ContextHighlight   In THE DREAM OF LITTLE TUK
2  The next day she was dressed from head to foot in silk and velvet.
Andersen's Fairy Tales By Hans Christian Andersen
ContextHighlight   In THE SNOW QUEEN
3  This reply fully satisfied the Councillor; the title suited the dress.
Andersen's Fairy Tales By Hans Christian Andersen
ContextHighlight   In THE SHOES OF FORTUNE
4  The white dress is hanging on the hook; it was washed in the teapot, and dried on the roof.
Andersen's Fairy Tales By Hans Christian Andersen
ContextHighlight   In THE SNOW QUEEN
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 Andersen
ContextHighlight   In THE EMPEROR'S NEW CLOTHES
6  All the children thought a great deal of her; but when they spoke of dress, and grandeur, and beauty, she shook her head.
Andersen's Fairy Tales By Hans Christian Andersen
ContextHighlight   In THE RED SHOES
7  The bathing attendant, on his side, uttered a loud cry of astonishment when he beheld in the bath, a man completely dressed.
Andersen's Fairy Tales By Hans Christian Andersen
ContextHighlight   In THE SHOES OF FORTUNE
8  Even the hostess, with bare feet, uncombed hair, and dressed in a garment of doubtful color, received the guests grumblingly.
Andersen's Fairy Tales By Hans Christian Andersen
ContextHighlight   In THE SHOES OF FORTUNE
9  It was noon; and the weather, that had threatened rain, began to clear up, while gaily dressed holiday folks filled the streets.
Andersen's Fairy Tales By Hans Christian Andersen
ContextHighlight   In THE SHOES OF FORTUNE
10  Shoes and a muff were given her; she was, too, dressed very nicely; and when she was about to set off, a new carriage stopped before the door.
Andersen's Fairy Tales By Hans Christian Andersen
ContextHighlight   In THE SNOW QUEEN
11  The flake of snow grew larger and larger; and at last it was like a young lady, dressed in the finest white gauze, made of a million little flakes like stars.
Andersen's Fairy Tales By Hans Christian Andersen
ContextHighlight   In THE SNOW QUEEN
12  In that lady yonder, so strangely dressed, I should find for certain a large milliner's shop; in that one the shop is empty, but it wants cleaning plain enough.
Andersen's Fairy Tales By Hans Christian Andersen
ContextHighlight   In THE SHOES OF FORTUNE
13  This he had done, and was now going on in wooden shoes and in his humble dress, for the bell sounded with so deep a tone, and with such strange power, that proceed he must.
Andersen's Fairy Tales By Hans Christian Andersen
ContextHighlight   In THE BELL
14  "But there we shall not meet," said the King's Son, nodding at the same time to the poor boy, who went into the darkest, thickest part of the wood, where thorns tore his humble dress, and scratched his face and hands and feet till they bled.
Andersen's Fairy Tales By Hans Christian Andersen
ContextHighlight   In THE BELL
15  One might have thought at first they were servants come to accompany their mistresses home; but on looking nearer, one soon saw they could scarcely be mere servants; their forms were too noble for that, their skin too fine, the cut of their dress too striking.
Andersen's Fairy Tales By Hans Christian Andersen
ContextHighlight   In THE SHOES OF FORTUNE
16  And this little daughter was a princess, and people streamed to the castle, and Karen was there also, and the little princess stood in her fine white dress, in a window, and let herself be stared at; she had neither a train nor a golden crown, but splendid red morocco shoes.
Andersen's Fairy Tales By Hans Christian Andersen
ContextHighlight   In THE RED SHOES
17  Everybody looked at her feet; and when she stepped through the chancel door on the church pavement, it seemed to her as if the old figures on the tombs, those portraits of old preachers and preachers' wives, with stiff ruffs, and long black dresses, fixed their eyes on her red shoes.
Andersen's Fairy Tales By Hans Christian Andersen
ContextHighlight   In THE RED SHOES
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