1 "Look through this glass, Gerda," said he.
Andersen's Fairy Tales By Hans Christian AndersenContextHighlight In THE SNOW QUEEN 2 They grew hungry and thirsty; but from the palace they got nothing whatever, not even a glass of water.
Andersen's Fairy Tales By Hans Christian AndersenContextHighlight In THE SNOW QUEEN 3 Other pieces were put in spectacles; and that was a sad affair when people put on their glasses to see well and rightly.
Andersen's Fairy Tales By Hans Christian AndersenContextHighlight In THE SNOW QUEEN 4 The windows were very high up; the glass was red, blue, and green, and the sunlight shone through quite wondrously in all sorts of colors.
Andersen's Fairy Tales By Hans Christian AndersenContextHighlight In THE SNOW QUEEN 5 In his eyes the figures were extraordinarily beautiful, and of the utmost importance; for the bit of glass which was in his eye caused this.
Andersen's Fairy Tales By Hans Christian AndersenContextHighlight In THE SNOW QUEEN 6 It was just one of those pieces of glass from the magic mirror that had got into his eye; and poor Kay had got another piece right in his heart.
Andersen's Fairy Tales By Hans Christian AndersenContextHighlight In THE SNOW QUEEN 7 Hereupon he wandered into a boudoir formed entirely of mirrors, like the one in Castle Rosenburg; but here the glasses magnified to an astonishing degree.
Andersen's Fairy Tales By Hans Christian AndersenContextHighlight In THE SHOES OF FORTUNE 8 The Emperor was accordingly undressed, and the rogues pretended to array him in his new suit; the Emperor turning round, from side to side, before the looking glass.
Andersen's Fairy Tales By Hans Christian AndersenContextHighlight In THE EMPEROR'S NEW CLOTHES 9 The ceiling of the room resembled a large palm-tree with leaves of glass, of costly glass; and in the middle, from a thick golden stem, hung two beds, each of which resembled a lily.
Andersen's Fairy Tales By Hans Christian AndersenContextHighlight In THE SNOW QUEEN 10 Now there she was sitting under the most magnificent Christmas tree: it was still larger, and more decorated than the one which she had seen through the glass door in the rich merchant's house.
Andersen's Fairy Tales By Hans Christian AndersenContextHighlight In THE LITTLE MATCH GIRL 11 There stood fine hyacinths under glass bells, and there stood strong-stemmed peonies; there grew water plants, some so fresh, others half sick, the water-snakes lay down on them, and black crabs pinched their stalks.
Andersen's Fairy Tales By Hans Christian AndersenContextHighlight In THE STORY OF A MOTHER 12 Within, down it sunk perpendicularly into a caldron, about a Danish mile in depth; while below lay a town, whose appearance we can, in some measure, realize to ourselves by beating the white of an egg in a glass of water.
Andersen's Fairy Tales By Hans Christian AndersenContextHighlight In THE SHOES OF FORTUNE 13 When a friendship is formed between men, they generally affirm it, when occasion offers, either in public or private, by drinking to each other and exclaiming, "thy health," at the same time striking their glasses together.
14 'Tis true little Kay is at the Snow Queen's, and finds everything there quite to his taste; and he thinks it the very best place in the world; but the reason of that is, he has a splinter of glass in his eye, and in his heart.
Andersen's Fairy Tales By Hans Christian AndersenContextHighlight In THE SNOW QUEEN 15 Some persons cannot bear to touch grey paper, or they become ill; others shiver in every limb if one rub a pane of glass with a nail: I have just such a feeling on hearing you say thou to me; I feel myself as if pressed to the earth in my first situation with you.