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1  "So I should think," said his mother.
Andersen's Fairy Tales By Hans Christian Andersen
ContextHighlight   In THE ELDERBUSH
2  A mother sat there with her little child.
Andersen's Fairy Tales By Hans Christian Andersen
ContextHighlight   In THE STORY OF A MOTHER
3  "That is the very thing that nobody can make out," said his mother.
Andersen's Fairy Tales By Hans Christian Andersen
ContextHighlight   In THE ELDERBUSH
4  But the poor mother ran out of the house and cried aloud for her child.
Andersen's Fairy Tales By Hans Christian Andersen
ContextHighlight   In THE STORY OF A MOTHER
5  You see that the men are gone; but my mother is still here, and will remain.
Andersen's Fairy Tales By Hans Christian Andersen
ContextHighlight   In THE SNOW QUEEN
6  Here is a pair of lined gloves of my mother's; they just reach up to your elbow.
Andersen's Fairy Tales By Hans Christian Andersen
ContextHighlight   In THE SNOW QUEEN
7  His mother now came home, for she had been out, and took little Augusta on her arm.
Andersen's Fairy Tales By Hans Christian Andersen
ContextHighlight   In THE DREAM OF LITTLE TUK
8  And his mother laughed, put some Elder-flowers in the tea-pot, and poured boiling water upon them.
Andersen's Fairy Tales By Hans Christian Andersen
ContextHighlight   In THE ELDERBUSH
9  All at once an icy cold rushed through the great hall, and the blind mother could feel that it was Death that came.
Andersen's Fairy Tales By Hans Christian Andersen
ContextHighlight   In THE STORY OF A MOTHER
10  And her mother took hold of her nose, and pinched it till it was red and blue; but this was all done out of pure love.
Andersen's Fairy Tales By Hans Christian Andersen
ContextHighlight   In THE SNOW QUEEN
11  So his mother undressed him, put him to bed, and had the tea-pot brought in, to make him a good cup of Elderflower tea.
Andersen's Fairy Tales By Hans Christian Andersen
ContextHighlight   In THE ELDERBUSH
12  But the distressed mother bent down over all the smallest plants, and heard within them how the human heart beat; and amongst millions she knew her child's.
Andersen's Fairy Tales By Hans Christian Andersen
ContextHighlight   In THE STORY OF A MOTHER
13  One wrote a whole poem about it, and said the bell sounded like the voice of a mother to a good dear child, and that no melody was sweeter than the tones of the bell.
Andersen's Fairy Tales By Hans Christian Andersen
ContextHighlight   In THE BELL
14  But God's warm sun streamed through the open window; lovely roses nodded from the wooden flower-boxes on the roof, and two sky-blue birds sang rejoicingly, while the sick mother implored God's richest blessings on her pious daughter.
Andersen's Fairy Tales By Hans Christian Andersen
ContextHighlight   In THE SHOES OF FORTUNE
15  How gladly would he have sunk upon his knees; but he must away to the next heart; yet he still heard the pealing tones of the organ, and he himself seemed to have become a newer and a better man; he felt unworthy to tread the neighboring sanctuary which a poor garret, with a sick bed-rid mother, revealed.
Andersen's Fairy Tales By Hans Christian Andersen
ContextHighlight   In THE SHOES OF FORTUNE
16  When the mother had taken a sup at her flask, and was having a nap, the little robber maiden went to the Reindeer, and said, "I should very much like to give you still many a tickling with the sharp knife, for then you are so amusing; however, I will untether you, and help you out, so that you may go back to Lapland."
Andersen's Fairy Tales By Hans Christian Andersen
ContextHighlight   In THE SNOW QUEEN
17  And she pressed the thorn-bush to her breast, so firmly, that it might be thoroughly warmed, and the thorns went right into her flesh, and her blood flowed in large drops, but the thornbush shot forth fresh green leaves, and there came flowers on it in the cold winter night, the heart of the afflicted mother was so warm; and the thorn-bush told her the way she should go.
Andersen's Fairy Tales By Hans Christian Andersen
ContextHighlight   In THE STORY OF A MOTHER
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