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1  The cat's mouth soon began to water for some more licking.
Grimms' Fairy Tales By Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm
ContextHighlight   In CAT AND MOUSE IN PARTNERSHIP
2  The coal slipped after her, hissed when she got into the water, and breathed her last.
Grimms' Fairy Tales By Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm
ContextHighlight   In THE STRAW, THE COAL, AND THE BEAN
3  And as she leaned down to drink, the lock of hair fell from her bosom, and floated away with the water.
Grimms' Fairy Tales By Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm
ContextHighlight   In THE GOOSE-GIRL
4  When the water in the kettle was boiling, the cook went into the bedroom to fetch Fundevogel and throw him into it.
Grimms' Fairy Tales By Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm
ContextHighlight   In FUNDEVOGEL
5  But as the mice were going over, the straw slipped away and fell into the water, and the six mice all fell in and were drowned.
Grimms' Fairy Tales By Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm
ContextHighlight   In THE ADVENTURES OF CHANTICLEER AND PARTLET
6  But the duck swam quickly to her, seized her head in its beak and drew her into the water, and there the old witch had to drown.
Grimms' Fairy Tales By Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm
ContextHighlight   In FUNDEVOGEL
7  Nevertheless, he wished to try him first, and took a stone in his hand and squeezed it together so that water dropped out of it.
Grimms' Fairy Tales By Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm
ContextHighlight   In THE VALIANT LITTLE TAILOR
8  But when she had reached the middle, and heard the water rushing beneath her, she was after all, afraid, and stood still, and ventured no farther.
Grimms' Fairy Tales By Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm
ContextHighlight   In THE STRAW, THE COAL, AND THE BEAN
9  The fisherman did not much like the business: however, he went to the seashore; and when he came back there the water looked all yellow and green.
Grimms' Fairy Tales By Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm
ContextHighlight   In THE FISHERMAN AND HIS WIFE
10  Now the forester had an old cook, who one evening took two pails and began to fetch water, and did not go once only, but many times, out to the spring.
Grimms' Fairy Tales By Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm
ContextHighlight   In FUNDEVOGEL
11  At last he could go no farther, for the stone tired him sadly: and he dragged himself to the side of a river, that he might take a drink of water, and rest a while.
Grimms' Fairy Tales By Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm
ContextHighlight   In HANS IN LUCK
12  Then the frog put his head down, and dived deep under the water; and after a little while he came up again, with the ball in his mouth, and threw it on the edge of the spring.
Grimms' Fairy Tales By Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm
ContextHighlight   In THE FROG-PRINCE
13  But one day as the queen was walking by the side of the river, at the bottom of the garden, she saw a poor little fish, that had thrown itself out of the water, and lay gasping and nearly dead on the bank.
Grimms' Fairy Tales By Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm
ContextHighlight   In BRIAR ROSE
14  One fine evening a young princess put on her bonnet and clogs, and went out to take a walk by herself in a wood; and when she came to a cool spring of water, that rose in the midst of it, she sat herself down to rest a while.
Grimms' Fairy Tales By Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm
ContextHighlight   In THE FROG-PRINCE
15  For a while he watched it sinking in the deep clear water; then sprang up and danced for joy, and again fell upon his knees and thanked Heaven, with tears in his eyes, for its kindness in taking away his only plague, the ugly heavy stone.
Grimms' Fairy Tales By Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm
ContextHighlight   In HANS IN LUCK
16  The fisherman used to go out all day long a-fishing; and one day, as he sat on the shore with his rod, looking at the sparkling waves and watching his line, all on a sudden his float was dragged away deep into the water: and in drawing it up he pulled out a great fish.
Grimms' Fairy Tales By Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm
ContextHighlight   In THE FISHERMAN AND HIS WIFE
17  When Mr Korbes came home, he went to the fireplace to make a fire; but the cat threw all the ashes in his eyes: so he ran to the kitchen to wash himself; but there the duck splashed all the water in his face; and when he tried to wipe himself, the egg broke to pieces in the towel all over his face and eyes.
Grimms' Fairy Tales By Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm
ContextHighlight   In THE ADVENTURES OF CHANTICLEER AND PARTLET
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