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1  The giant showed him a bed, and said he was to lie down in it and sleep.
Grimms' Fairy Tales By Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm
ContextHighlight   In THE VALIANT LITTLE TAILOR
2  I will put them into my pillow, and then I am sure I shall sleep soundly without rocking.
Grimms' Fairy Tales By Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm
ContextHighlight   In HANS IN LUCK
3  They laid themselves down to sleep again, and then the tailor threw a stone down on the second.
Grimms' Fairy Tales By Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm
ContextHighlight   In THE VALIANT LITTLE TAILOR
4  Then they went to bed: but Dame Ilsabill could not sleep all night for thinking what she should be next.
Grimms' Fairy Tales By Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm
ContextHighlight   In THE FISHERMAN AND HIS WIFE
5  After he had wandered through three kingdoms, he came one evening to a wood, and lay down under a tree to sleep.
Grimms' Fairy Tales By Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm
ContextHighlight   In THE WHITE SNAKE
6  They could not, however, reach the great city the first day; so when night came on, they went into a wood to sleep.
Grimms' Fairy Tales By Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm
ContextHighlight   In THE TRAVELLING MUSICIANS
7  The two children had also not been able to sleep for hunger, and had heard what their stepmother had said to their father.
Grimms' Fairy Tales By Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm
ContextHighlight   In HANSEL AND GRETEL
8  When the wolf had satisfied his appetite he took himself off, laid himself down under a tree in the green meadow outside, and began to sleep.
Grimms' Fairy Tales By Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm
ContextHighlight   In THE WOLF AND THE SEVEN LITTLE KIDS
9  Then he went back and said to Gretel: 'Be comforted, dear little sister, and sleep in peace, God will not forsake us,' and he lay down again in his bed.
Grimms' Fairy Tales By Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm
ContextHighlight   In HANSEL AND GRETEL
10  When the wolf at length had had his fill of sleep, he got on his legs, and as the stones in his stomach made him very thirsty, he wanted to go to a well to drink.
Grimms' Fairy Tales By Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm
ContextHighlight   In THE WOLF AND THE SEVEN LITTLE KIDS
11  So she tried all the little beds; but one was too long, and another was too short, till at last the seventh suited her: and there she laid herself down and went to sleep.
Grimms' Fairy Tales By Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm
ContextHighlight   In SNOWDROP
12  The little man crawled about in the hay-loft, and at last found a snug place to finish his night's rest in; so he laid himself down, meaning to sleep till daylight, and then find his way home to his father and mother.
Grimms' Fairy Tales By Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm
ContextHighlight   In TOM THUMB
13  When it was midnight, and the giant thought that the little tailor was lying in a sound sleep, he got up, took a great iron bar, cut through the bed with one blow, and thought he had finished off the grasshopper for good.
Grimms' Fairy Tales By Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm
ContextHighlight   In THE VALIANT LITTLE TAILOR
14  Then, when the bird came home and had laid aside his burden, they sat down to table, and when they had finished their meal, they could sleep their fill till the following morning: and that was really a very delightful life.
Grimms' Fairy Tales By Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm
ContextHighlight   In THE MOUSE, THE BIRD, AND THE SAUSAGE
15  He told her that he had been enchanted by a spiteful fairy, who had changed him into a frog; and that he had been fated so to abide till some princess should take him out of the spring, and let him eat from her plate, and sleep upon her bed for three nights.
Grimms' Fairy Tales By Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm
ContextHighlight   In THE FROG-PRINCE
16  However, she was not dead, but had only fallen into a deep sleep; and the king and the queen, who had just come home, and all their court, fell asleep too; and the horses slept in the stables, and the dogs in the court, the pigeons on the house-top, and the very flies slept upon the walls.
Grimms' Fairy Tales By Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm
ContextHighlight   In BRIAR ROSE
17  The ass and the dog laid themselves down under a great tree, and the cat climbed up into the branches; while the cock, thinking that the higher he sat the safer he should be, flew up to the very top of the tree, and then, according to his custom, before he went to sleep, looked out on all sides of him to see that everything was well.
Grimms' Fairy Tales By Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm
ContextHighlight   In THE TRAVELLING MUSICIANS
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