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1  The little tailor went onwards, always following his own pointed nose.
Grimms' Fairy Tales By Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm
ContextHighlight   In THE VALIANT LITTLE TAILOR
2  'In such and such a house,' said Tom, describing his own father's house.
Grimms' Fairy Tales By Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm
ContextHighlight   In TOM THUMB
3  Then he went away to his own country, and the poodle had to run after him.
Grimms' Fairy Tales By Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm
ContextHighlight   In THE PINK
4  The little tailor called the huntsmen thither that they might see the prisoner with their own eyes.
Grimms' Fairy Tales By Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm
ContextHighlight   In THE VALIANT LITTLE TAILOR
5  The aged king ordered the cook to be torn in four pieces, but grief consumed the king's own heart, and he soon died.
Grimms' Fairy Tales By Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm
ContextHighlight   In THE PINK
6  As soon as they had satisfied themselves, they put out the lights, and each once more sought out a resting-place to his own liking.
Grimms' Fairy Tales By Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm
ContextHighlight   In THE TRAVELLING MUSICIANS
7  And the princess, though very unwilling, took him up in her hand, and put him upon the pillow of her own bed, where he slept all night long.
Grimms' Fairy Tales By Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm
ContextHighlight   In THE FROG-PRINCE
8  But it was agreed, that, if he could bring thither the beautiful princess, he should live, and have the bird and the horse given him for his own.
Grimms' Fairy Tales By Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm
ContextHighlight   In THE GOLDEN BIRD
9  When he came out, she said to him: 'Listen, dearest Roland, we must fly in all haste; my stepmother wanted to kill me, but has struck her own child.'
Grimms' Fairy Tales By Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm
ContextHighlight   In SWEETHEART ROLAND
10  This new wife had two daughters of her own, that she brought home with her; they were fair in face but foul at heart, and it was now a sorry time for the poor little girl.
Grimms' Fairy Tales By Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm
ContextHighlight   In ASHPUTTEL
11  Then the son said: 'Now will I show her to you in her own form,' and wished that she might become a maiden, and she stood there looking so beautiful that no painter could have made her look more so.
Grimms' Fairy Tales By Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm
ContextHighlight   In THE PINK
12  The mother, however, loved the ugly and lazy one best, because she was her own daughter, and so the other, who was only her stepdaughter, was made to do all the work of the house, and was quite the Cinderella of the family.
Grimms' Fairy Tales By Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm
ContextHighlight   In MOTHER HOLLE
13  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
14  In the night, the old woman came creeping in, she held an axe in her right hand, and felt with her left to see if anyone were lying at the outside, and then she grasped the axe with both hands, and cut her own child's head off.
Grimms' Fairy Tales By Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm
ContextHighlight   In SWEETHEART ROLAND
15  There was once upon a time a woman who was a real witch and had two daughters, one ugly and wicked, and this one she loved because she was her own daughter, and one beautiful and good, and this one she hated, because she was her stepdaughter.
Grimms' Fairy Tales By Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm
ContextHighlight   In SWEETHEART ROLAND
16  The next morning the court sat to judge him; and when all was heard, it sentenced him to die, unless he should bring the king the golden horse which could run as swiftly as the wind; and if he did this, he was to have the golden bird given him for his own.
Grimms' Fairy Tales By Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm
ContextHighlight   In THE GOLDEN BIRD
17  When they were all ready, they went and looked at the soldier; but he snored on, and did not stir hand or foot: so they thought they were quite safe; and the eldest went up to her own bed and clapped her hands, and the bed sank into the floor and a trap-door flew open.
Grimms' Fairy Tales By Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm
ContextHighlight   In THE TWELVE DANCING PRINCESSES
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