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1  One solitary tower only, and some remains of a wall, show where the castle once stood.
Andersen's Fairy Tales By Hans Christian Andersen
ContextHighlight   In THE DREAM OF LITTLE TUK
2  The walls of the palace were of driving snow, and the windows and doors of cutting winds.
Andersen's Fairy Tales By Hans Christian Andersen
ContextHighlight   In THE SNOW QUEEN
3  They now entered the first saloon, which was of rose-colored satin, with artificial flowers on the wall.
Andersen's Fairy Tales By Hans Christian Andersen
ContextHighlight   In THE SNOW QUEEN
4  Portraits were hanging on the walls, and near the white porcelain stove stood two large Chinese vases with lions on the covers.
Andersen's Fairy Tales By Hans Christian Andersen
ContextHighlight   In THE FIR TREE
5  The light burnt in the room behind him; and thus it was quite natural that his shadow should fall on his opposite neighbor's wall.
Andersen's Fairy Tales By Hans Christian Andersen
ContextHighlight   In THE SHADOW
6  He got the Galoshes, and he was soon below in a little duodecimo garden, where between two immense walls a plumtree and an apple-tree were standing.
Andersen's Fairy Tales By Hans Christian Andersen
ContextHighlight   In THE SHOES OF FORTUNE
7  The beams glided down the white walls of a neighbor's house, and close by the fresh yellow flowers were growing, shining like gold in the warm sun-rays.
Andersen's Fairy Tales By Hans Christian Andersen
ContextHighlight   In THE SNOW QUEEN
8  They now thought of placing the boxes across the gutter, so that they nearly reached from one window to the other, and looked just like two walls of flowers.
Andersen's Fairy Tales By Hans Christian Andersen
ContextHighlight   In THE SNOW QUEEN
9  Thick evergreens grow on the dilapidated walls, and around the altar, where a lovely maiden is standing: she bends over the railing and looks out upon the rose.
Andersen's Fairy Tales By Hans Christian Andersen
ContextHighlight   In THE SNOW QUEEN
10  She rubbed another against the wall: it burned brightly, and where the light fell on the wall, there the wall became transparent like a veil, so that she could see into the room.
Andersen's Fairy Tales By Hans Christian Andersen
ContextHighlight   In THE LITTLE MATCH GIRL
11  She drew another match against the wall: it was again light, and in the lustre there stood the old grandmother, so bright and radiant, so mild, and with such an expression of love.
Andersen's Fairy Tales By Hans Christian Andersen
ContextHighlight   In THE LITTLE MATCH GIRL
12  And she flew past old castles of by-gone days of chivalry, where the red walls and the embattled gables were mirrored in the canal, where the swans were swimming, and peered up into the old cool avenues.
Andersen's Fairy Tales By Hans Christian Andersen
ContextHighlight   In THE ELDERBUSH
13  "I think there is somebody just behind us," said Gerda; and something rushed past: it was like shadowy figures on the wall; horses with flowing manes and thin legs, huntsmen, ladies and gentlemen on horseback.
Andersen's Fairy Tales By Hans Christian Andersen
ContextHighlight   In THE SNOW QUEEN
14  A fine house was built there, with large windows, and smooth white walls; but before it, where the old house had in fact stood, was a little garden laid out, and a wild grapevine ran up the wall of the neighboring house.
Andersen's Fairy Tales By Hans Christian Andersen
ContextHighlight   In THE OLD HOUSE
15  Up there is the rabble of the wood," continued she, pointing to several laths which were fastened before a hole high up in the wall; "that's the rabble; they would all fly away immediately, if they were not well fastened in.
Andersen's Fairy Tales By Hans Christian Andersen
ContextHighlight   In THE SNOW QUEEN
16  The first heart through which he came, was that of a middle-aged lady, but he instantly fancied himself in the room of the "Institution for the cure of the crooked and deformed," where casts of mis-shapen limbs are displayed in naked reality on the wall.
Andersen's Fairy Tales By Hans Christian Andersen
ContextHighlight   In THE SHOES OF FORTUNE
17  And when he looked across at the wall where the mortar had fallen out, he could sit and find out there the strangest figures imaginable; exactly as the street had appeared before, with steps, projecting windows, and pointed gables; he could see soldiers with halberds, and spouts where the water ran, like dragons and serpents.
Andersen's Fairy Tales By Hans Christian Andersen
ContextHighlight   In THE OLD HOUSE
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