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1  I don't know how that may be,' said she; 'never is a long time.
Grimms' Fairy Tales By Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm
ContextHighlight   In THE FISHERMAN AND HIS WIFE
2  Feel,' said he, 'how heavy it is, and yet it is only eight weeks old.
Grimms' Fairy Tales By Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm
ContextHighlight   In HANS IN LUCK
3  She said: 'I will willingly go away with you, but I do not know how to get down.'
Grimms' Fairy Tales By Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm
ContextHighlight   In RAPUNZEL
4  I will still, however, tell you how to find the golden horse, if you will do as I bid you.
Grimms' Fairy Tales By Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm
ContextHighlight   In THE GOLDEN BIRD
5  Hans told him what had happened, how he was dry, and wanted to milk his cow, but found the cow was dry too.
Grimms' Fairy Tales By Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm
ContextHighlight   In HANS IN LUCK
6  Soon, however, they came to a little brook, and as there was no bridge or foot-plank, they did not know how they were to get over it.
Grimms' Fairy Tales By Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm
ContextHighlight   In THE STRAW, THE COAL, AND THE BEAN
7  Then up he got with a light heart, free from all his troubles, and walked on till he reached his mother's house, and told her how very easy the road to good luck was.
Grimms' Fairy Tales By Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm
ContextHighlight   In HANS IN LUCK
8  He told, too, how he had heard from his grandfather that many, many princes had come, and had tried to break through the thicket, but that they had all stuck fast in it, and died.
Grimms' Fairy Tales By Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm
ContextHighlight   In BRIAR ROSE
9  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
10  The countryman stopped to ask what was o'clock; this led to further chat; and Hans told him all his luck, how he had so many good bargains, and how all the world went gay and smiling with him.
Grimms' Fairy Tales By Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm
ContextHighlight   In HANS IN LUCK
11  When the fisherman went home to his wife in the pigsty, he told her how he had caught a great fish, and how it had told him it was an enchanted prince, and how, on hearing it speak, he had let it go again.
Grimms' Fairy Tales By Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm
ContextHighlight   In THE FISHERMAN AND HIS WIFE
12  And Curdken went on telling the king what had happened upon the meadow where the geese fed; how his hat was blown away; and how he was forced to run after it, and to leave his flock of geese to themselves.
Grimms' Fairy Tales By Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm
ContextHighlight   In THE GOOSE-GIRL
13  And the young king rejoiced when he saw her beauty, and heard how meek and patient she had been; and without saying anything to the false bride, the king ordered a great feast to be got ready for all his court.
Grimms' Fairy Tales By Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm
ContextHighlight   In THE GOOSE-GIRL
14  Then he went into the field, and hid himself in a bush by the meadow's side; and he soon saw with his own eyes how they drove the flock of geese; and how, after a little time, she let down her hair that glittered in the sun.
Grimms' Fairy Tales By Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm
ContextHighlight   In THE GOOSE-GIRL
15  After many, many years there came a king's son into that land: and an old man told him the story of the thicket of thorns; and how a beautiful palace stood behind it, and how a wonderful princess, called Briar Rose, lay in it asleep, with all her court.
Grimms' Fairy Tales By Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm
ContextHighlight   In BRIAR ROSE
16  They slept in twelve beds all in one room; and when they went to bed, the doors were shut and locked up; but every morning their shoes were found to be quite worn through as if they had been danced in all night; and yet nobody could find out how it happened, or where they had been.
Grimms' Fairy Tales By Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm
ContextHighlight   In THE TWELVE DANCING PRINCESSES
17  Poor Sultan, who was lying close by them, heard all that the shepherd and his wife said to one another, and was very much frightened to think tomorrow would be his last day; so in the evening he went to his good friend the wolf, who lived in the wood, and told him all his sorrows, and how his master meant to kill him in the morning.
Grimms' Fairy Tales By Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm
ContextHighlight   In OLD SULTAN
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