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1  I fear one unicorn still less than two giants.
Grimms' Fairy Tales By Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm
ContextHighlight   In THE VALIANT LITTLE TAILOR
2  'It will not please you more than the others,' said the cat.
Grimms' Fairy Tales By Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm
ContextHighlight   In CAT AND MOUSE IN PARTNERSHIP
3  Their piece of bread was given to them, but it was still smaller than the time before.
Grimms' Fairy Tales By Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm
ContextHighlight   In HANSEL AND GRETEL
4  And scarcely had the wolf said this, than with one bound he was out of bed and swallowed up Red-Cap.
Grimms' Fairy Tales By Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm
ContextHighlight   In LITTLE RED-CAP [LITTLE RED RIDING HOOD]
5  When he drew it away and counted, there lay before him no fewer than seven, dead and with legs stretched out.
Grimms' Fairy Tales By Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm
ContextHighlight   In THE VALIANT LITTLE TAILOR
6  He walked nearer than a hundred paces to it, and yet he did not become fixed as before, but found that he could go quite close up to the door.
Grimms' Fairy Tales By Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm
ContextHighlight   In JORINDA AND JORINDEL
7  Had he known that it was no warlike hero, but a little tailor who was standing before him, it would have gone to his heart still more than it did.
Grimms' Fairy Tales By Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm
ContextHighlight   In THE VALIANT LITTLE TAILOR
8  At length, after much consideration, the cat said: 'I know no place where it will be better stored up than in the church, for no one dares take anything away from there.'
Grimms' Fairy Tales By Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm
ContextHighlight   In CAT AND MOUSE IN PARTNERSHIP
9  She was prettier than all the pretty girls that ever were seen before, and a shepherd lad, whose name was Jorindel, was very fond of her, and they were soon to be married.
Grimms' Fairy Tales By Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm
ContextHighlight   In JORINDA AND JORINDEL
10  And on each side of her were two rows of burning lights, of all sizes, the greatest as large as the highest and biggest tower in the world, and the least no larger than a small rushlight.
Grimms' Fairy Tales By Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm
ContextHighlight   In THE FISHERMAN AND HIS WIFE
11  And when he went in he saw his wife sitting on a throne of gold and diamonds, with a golden crown upon her head; and on each side of her stood six fair maidens, each a head taller than the other.
Grimms' Fairy Tales By Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm
ContextHighlight   In THE FISHERMAN AND HIS WIFE
12  However, I'm off now once for all: I like your cow now a great deal better than this smart beast that played me this trick, and has spoiled my best coat, you see, in this puddle; which, by the by, smells not very like a nosegay.
Grimms' Fairy Tales By Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm
ContextHighlight   In HANS IN LUCK
13  But the heat grew greater as soon as noon came on, till at last, as he found himself on a wide heath that would take him more than an hour to cross, he began to be so hot and parched that his tongue clave to the roof of his mouth.
Grimms' Fairy Tales By Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm
ContextHighlight   In HANS IN LUCK
14  She could not at first tell why she felt sad, but she became conscious at last of great longing to go home; then she knew she was homesick, although she was a thousand times better off with Mother Holle than with her mother and sister.
Grimms' Fairy Tales By Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm
ContextHighlight   In MOTHER HOLLE
15  But about midnight, when the robbers saw from afar that the lights were out and that all seemed quiet, they began to think that they had been in too great a hurry to run away; and one of them, who was bolder than the rest, went to see what was going on.
Grimms' Fairy Tales By Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm
ContextHighlight   In THE TRAVELLING MUSICIANS
16  Then he touched all the other birds with the flower, so that they all took their old forms again; and he took Jorinda home, where they were married, and lived happily together many years: and so did a good many other lads, whose maidens had been forced to sing in the old fairy's cages by themselves, much longer than they liked.
Grimms' Fairy Tales By Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm
ContextHighlight   In JORINDA AND JORINDEL
17  So he went home again; and as he came near he saw his wife Ilsabill sitting on a very lofty throne made of solid gold, with a great crown on her head full two yards high; and on each side of her stood her guards and attendants in a row, each one smaller than the other, from the tallest giant down to a little dwarf no bigger than my finger.
Grimms' Fairy Tales By Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm
ContextHighlight   In THE FISHERMAN AND HIS WIFE
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