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1  "Oh yes, I've read something, to be sure," replied the Councillor.
Andersen's Fairy Tales By Hans Christian Andersen
ContextHighlight   In THE SHOES OF FORTUNE
2  In it I read that you were in warm lands where the coffee-tree grows.
Andersen's Fairy Tales By Hans Christian Andersen
ContextHighlight   In THE ELDERBUSH
3  She sat still and listened when the clergyman read the Bible in the evenings.
Andersen's Fairy Tales By Hans Christian Andersen
ContextHighlight   In THE RED SHOES
4  Next morning, the learned man went out to drink coffee and read the newspapers.
Andersen's Fairy Tales By Hans Christian Andersen
ContextHighlight   In THE SHADOW
5  And out of bed he jumped, and read in his book, and now all at once he knew his whole lesson.
Andersen's Fairy Tales By Hans Christian Andersen
ContextHighlight   In THE DREAM OF LITTLE TUK
6  He ought, to be sure, to have read over his lesson again, but that, you know, he could not do.
Andersen's Fairy Tales By Hans Christian Andersen
ContextHighlight   In THE DREAM OF LITTLE TUK
7  Oh," exclaimed the clerical gentleman smiling, "there is much wit in them; besides they are read at court.
Andersen's Fairy Tales By Hans Christian Andersen
ContextHighlight   In THE SHOES OF FORTUNE
8  It was a coarse wood-cut, representing a splendid meteor "as seen in the town of Cologne," which was to be read below in bright letters.
Andersen's Fairy Tales By Hans Christian Andersen
ContextHighlight   In THE SHOES OF FORTUNE
9  Tuk ran quickly to the window, and read so eagerly that he pretty nearly read his eyes out; for it got darker and darker, but his mother had no money to buy a candle.
Andersen's Fairy Tales By Hans Christian Andersen
ContextHighlight   In THE DREAM OF LITTLE TUK
10  When she had unrolled it, strange characters were to be seen written thereon; and the Finland woman read at such a rate that the perspiration trickled down her forehead.
Andersen's Fairy Tales By Hans Christian Andersen
ContextHighlight   In THE SNOW QUEEN
11  Immediately 'the inner man' of each individual would be displayed before him, like a game of cards, in which he unerringly might read what the future of every person presented was to be.
Andersen's Fairy Tales By Hans Christian Andersen
ContextHighlight   In THE SHOES OF FORTUNE
12  Every inhabitant of Copenhagen knows, from personal inspection, how the entrance to Frederick's Hospital looks; but as it is possible that others, who are not Copenhagen people, may also read this little work, we will beforehand give a short description of it.
Andersen's Fairy Tales By Hans Christian Andersen
ContextHighlight   In THE SHOES OF FORTUNE
13  While the conversation turned on this subject, and was only for a moment interrupted by the arrival of a journal that contained nothing worth reading, we will just step out into the antechamber, where cloaks, mackintoshes, sticks, umbrellas, and shoes, were deposited.
Andersen's Fairy Tales By Hans Christian Andersen
ContextHighlight   In THE SHOES OF FORTUNE
14  The newspapers appeared forthwith with a border of hearts and the initials of the Princess; and therein you might read that every good-looking young man was at liberty to come to the palace and speak to the Princess; and he who spoke in such wise as showed he felt himself at home there, that one the Princess would choose for her husband.
Andersen's Fairy Tales By Hans Christian Andersen
ContextHighlight   In THE SNOW QUEEN