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1  He is forever running after everybody.
Andersen's Fairy Tales By Hans Christian Andersen
ContextHighlight   In THE NAUGHTY BOY
2  Poor thing," said the Lapland woman, "you have far to run still.
Andersen's Fairy Tales By Hans Christian Andersen
ContextHighlight   In THE SNOW QUEEN
3  So one of the court-ladies must run in; however, she drew on wooden slippers first.
Andersen's Fairy Tales By Hans Christian Andersen
ContextHighlight   In THE SWINEHERD
4  When the university students come from the lectures, he runs beside them in a black coat, and with a book under his arm.
Andersen's Fairy Tales By Hans Christian Andersen
ContextHighlight   In THE NAUGHTY BOY
5  The old woman feared that if Gerda should see the roses, she would then think of her own, would remember little Kay, and run away from her.
Andersen's Fairy Tales By Hans Christian Andersen
ContextHighlight   In THE SNOW QUEEN
6  And she tucked up her frock, to enable her to run quicker; but the Narcissus gave her a knock on the leg, just as she was going to jump over it.
Andersen's Fairy Tales By Hans Christian Andersen
ContextHighlight   In THE SNOW QUEEN
7  But now it was only to the HOT lands that a learned man had come from the cold; there he thought that he could run about just as when at home, but he soon found out his mistake.
Andersen's Fairy Tales By Hans Christian Andersen
ContextHighlight   In THE SHADOW
8  In the greatest perplexity, he now came out of the last heart in the row; he was unable to put his thoughts in order, and fancied that his too lively imagination had run away with him.
Andersen's Fairy Tales By Hans Christian Andersen
ContextHighlight   In THE SHOES OF FORTUNE
9  She danced round the church corner, she could not leave off; the coachman was obliged to run after and catch hold of her, and he lifted her in the carriage, but her feet continued to dance so that she trod on the old lady dreadfully.
Andersen's Fairy Tales By Hans Christian Andersen
ContextHighlight   In THE RED SHOES
10  The one story stood forward a great way over the other; and directly under the eaves was a leaden spout with a dragon's head; the rain-water should have run out of the mouth, but it ran out of the belly, for there was a hole in the spout.
Andersen's Fairy Tales By Hans Christian Andersen
ContextHighlight   In THE OLD HOUSE
11  But little Denmark must take care what it is about, and not run counter to the moon; that great realm, that might in an ill-humor bestir itself, and dash down a hail-storm in our faces, or force the Baltic to overflow the sides of its gigantic basin.
Andersen's Fairy Tales By Hans Christian Andersen
ContextHighlight   In THE SHOES OF FORTUNE
12  We will, therefore, not listen to what was spoken, and on no condition run in the possibility of telling tales out of school; but we will rather proceed, like good quiet citizens, to East Street, and observe what happened meanwhile to the body of the watchman.
Andersen's Fairy Tales By Hans Christian Andersen
ContextHighlight   In THE SHOES OF FORTUNE
13  At last she could run no longer; she sat down on a large stone, and when she looked about her, she saw that the summer had passed; it was late in the autumn, but that one could not remark in the beautiful garden, where there was always sunshine, and where there were flowers the whole year round.
Andersen's Fairy Tales By Hans Christian Andersen
ContextHighlight   In THE SNOW QUEEN