1 I thought you were dead and gone, and lying down in the deep waters.
Andersen's Fairy Tales By Hans Christian AndersenContextHighlight In THE ELDERBUSH 2 It consisted of a soup of salted water, seasoned with pepper and rancid oil.
Andersen's Fairy Tales By Hans Christian AndersenContextHighlight In THE SHOES OF FORTUNE 3 And his mother laughed, put some Elder-flowers in the tea-pot, and poured boiling water upon them.
Andersen's Fairy Tales By Hans Christian AndersenContextHighlight In THE ELDERBUSH 4 They grew hungry and thirsty; but from the palace they got nothing whatever, not even a glass of water.
Andersen's Fairy Tales By Hans Christian AndersenContextHighlight In THE SNOW QUEEN 5 His eyes were like two bright stars; and although the water trickled down his hair, it waved in beautiful curls.
Andersen's Fairy Tales By Hans Christian AndersenContextHighlight In THE NAUGHTY BOY 6 She pours water out of the teapot over a piece of stuff which she holds in her hand; it is the bodice; cleanliness is a fine thing.
Andersen's Fairy Tales By Hans Christian AndersenContextHighlight In THE SNOW QUEEN 7 What with the rain and the wind, she was in a sad condition; the water trickled down from her hair, and her clothes clung to her body.
Andersen's Fairy Tales By Hans Christian AndersenContextHighlight In THE REAL PRINCESS 8 That he was ill, she comprehended directly; so she brought him a pitcher of water, which tasted certainly pretty strong of the sea, although it had been fetched from the well.
Andersen's Fairy Tales By Hans Christian AndersenContextHighlight In THE SHOES OF FORTUNE 9 The old poet seated himself beside his hearth, and took the little fellow on his lap; he squeezed the water out of his dripping hair, warmed his hands between his own, and boiled for him some sweet wine.
Andersen's Fairy Tales By Hans Christian AndersenContextHighlight In THE NAUGHTY BOY 10 She then sat down and wept; but her hot tears fell just where a rose-bush had sunk; and when her warm tears watered the ground, the tree shot up suddenly as fresh and blooming as when it had been swallowed up.
Andersen's Fairy Tales By Hans Christian AndersenContextHighlight In THE SNOW QUEEN 11 There stood a little boy, quite naked, and the water ran down from his long golden hair; he trembled with cold, and had he not come into a warm room he would most certainly have perished in the frightful tempest.
Andersen's Fairy Tales By Hans Christian AndersenContextHighlight In THE NAUGHTY BOY 12 There stood fine hyacinths under glass bells, and there stood strong-stemmed peonies; there grew water plants, some so fresh, others half sick, the water-snakes lay down on them, and black crabs pinched their stalks.
Andersen's Fairy Tales By Hans Christian AndersenContextHighlight In THE STORY OF A MOTHER 13 Within, down it sunk perpendicularly into a caldron, about a Danish mile in depth; while below lay a town, whose appearance we can, in some measure, realize to ourselves by beating the white of an egg in a glass of water.
Andersen's Fairy Tales By Hans Christian AndersenContextHighlight In THE SHOES OF FORTUNE 14 The bridge leading to Palace Square was not to be found; scarcely trusting his senses, the nocturnal wanderer discovered a shallow piece of water, and here fell in with two men who very comfortably were rocking to and fro in a boat.
Andersen's Fairy Tales By Hans Christian AndersenContextHighlight In THE SHOES OF FORTUNE 15 The drops of water splashed up to the green leafy roof, and the clerk thought of the million of ephemera which in a single drop were thrown up to a height, that was as great doubtless for their size, as for us if we were to be hurled above the clouds.
Andersen's Fairy Tales By Hans Christian AndersenContextHighlight In THE SHOES OF FORTUNE 16 From out the hill-side spouted fountains in thick streams of water, so that there was a continual splashing; and close beside them sat an old king with a golden crown upon his white head: that was King Hroar, near the fountains, close to the town of Roeskilde, as it is now called.
Andersen's Fairy Tales By Hans Christian AndersenContextHighlight In THE DREAM OF LITTLE TUK 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.
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