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1 The higher they flew with the mirror, the more terribly it grinned: they could hardly hold it fast.
Andersen's Fairy TalesBy Hans Christian Andersen ContextHighlight In THE SNOW QUEEN
2 This happened because the very smallest bit had the same power which the whole mirror had possessed.
Andersen's Fairy TalesBy Hans Christian Andersen ContextHighlight In THE SNOW QUEEN
3 They ran about with the mirror; and at last there was not a land or a person who was not represented distorted in the mirror.
Andersen's Fairy TalesBy Hans Christian Andersen ContextHighlight In THE SNOW QUEEN
4 If a good thought passed through a man's mind, then a grin was seen in the mirror, and the sprite laughed heartily at his clever discovery.
Andersen's Fairy TalesBy Hans Christian Andersen ContextHighlight In THE SNOW QUEEN
5 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 TalesBy Hans Christian Andersen ContextHighlight In THE SNOW QUEEN
6 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 TalesBy Hans Christian Andersen ContextHighlight In THE SHOES OF FORTUNE
7 And she flew past old castles of by-gone days of chivalry, where the red walls and the embattled gables were mirrored in the canal, where the swans were swimming, and peered up into the old cool avenues.
Andersen's Fairy TalesBy Hans Christian Andersen ContextHighlight In THE ELDERBUSH
8 Higher and higher still they flew, nearer and nearer to the stars, when suddenly the mirror shook so terribly with grinning, that it flew out of their hands and fell to the earth, where it was dashed in a hundred million and more pieces.
Andersen's Fairy TalesBy Hans Christian Andersen ContextHighlight In THE SNOW QUEEN
9 One day he was in a very good humor, for he had made a mirror with the power of causing all that was good and beautiful when it was reflected therein, to look poor and mean; but that which was good-for-nothing and looked ugly was shown magnified and increased in ugliness.
Andersen's Fairy TalesBy Hans Christian Andersen ContextHighlight In THE SNOW QUEEN
10 In this mirror the most beautiful landscapes looked like boiled spinach, and the best persons were turned into frights, or appeared to stand on their heads; their faces were so distorted that they were not to be recognised; and if anyone had a mole, you might be sure that it would be magnified and spread over both nose and mouth.
Andersen's Fairy TalesBy Hans Christian Andersen ContextHighlight In THE SNOW QUEEN