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1  In a short time she came by like the wind, riding on a wild tom-cat and screaming frightfully.
Grimms' Fairy Tales By Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm
ContextHighlight   In THE BLUE LIGHT
2  And now the boy had to plant and water the garden, hoe and dig, and bear the wind and bad weather.
Grimms' Fairy Tales By Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm
ContextHighlight   In IRON HANS
3  Then the son sat down on the fox's tail, and away they went over stock and stone till their hair whistled in the wind.
Grimms' Fairy Tales By Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm
ContextHighlight   In THE GOLDEN BIRD
4  So he sat down, and the fox began to run, and away they went over stock and stone so quick that their hair whistled in the wind.
Grimms' Fairy Tales By Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm
ContextHighlight   In THE GOLDEN BIRD
5  The poor horse was very melancholy, and wandered up and down in the wood, seeking some little shelter from the cold wind and rain.
Grimms' Fairy Tales By Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm
ContextHighlight   In THE FOX AND THE HORSE
6  It was not the axe, however, but a branch which he had fastened to a withered tree which the wind was blowing backwards and forwards.
Grimms' Fairy Tales By Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm
ContextHighlight   In HANSEL AND GRETEL
7  And soon came a gale of wind, and carried away Curdken's hat, and away went Curdken after it, while the girl went on combing and curling her hair.
Grimms' Fairy Tales By Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm
ContextHighlight   In THE GOOSE-GIRL
8  But as the weather grew so bad and there was a storm of rain and wind, he could go no farther, and turned back to the mill and begged for shelter.
Grimms' Fairy Tales By Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm
ContextHighlight   In THE LITTLE PEASANT
9  Then the fox stretched out his tail again, and the young man sat himself down, and away they went over stock and stone till their hair whistled in the wind.
Grimms' Fairy Tales By Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm
ContextHighlight   In THE GOLDEN BIRD
10  They found the ashes scattered by the wind, but the peas and lentils had sprouted, and grown sufficiently above the ground, to guide them in the moonlight along the path.
Grimms' Fairy Tales By Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm
ContextHighlight   In THE ROBBER BRIDEGROOM
11  But when he came to the shore the wind was raging and the sea was tossed up and down in boiling waves, and the ships were in trouble, and rolled fearfully upon the tops of the billows.
Grimms' Fairy Tales By Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm
ContextHighlight   In THE FISHERMAN AND HIS WIFE
12  Then the princess thought to betray her as before, and agreed to what she asked: but when the prince went to his chamber he asked the chamberlain why the wind had whistled so in the night.
Grimms' Fairy Tales By Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm
ContextHighlight   In LILY AND THE LION
13  Then the wind came and blew away his hat; and off it flew a great way, over the hills and far away, so that he had to run after it; and when he came back she had bound up her hair again, and all was safe.
Grimms' Fairy Tales By Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm
ContextHighlight   In THE GOOSE-GIRL
14  Here I discern the signs and motions of the heavens and the stars; the laws that control the winds; the number of the sands on the seashore; the healing of the sick; the virtues of all simples, of birds, and of precious stones.
Grimms' Fairy Tales By Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm
ContextHighlight   In THE TURNIP
15  Then there came a wind, so strong that it blew off Curdken's hat; and away it flew over the hills: and he was forced to turn and run after it; till, by the time he came back, she had done combing and curling her hair, and had put it up again safe.
Grimms' Fairy Tales By Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm
ContextHighlight   In THE GOOSE-GIRL
16  The next morning the court sat to judge him; and when all was heard, it sentenced him to die, unless he should bring the king the golden horse which could run as swiftly as the wind; and if he did this, he was to have the golden bird given him for his own.
Grimms' Fairy Tales By Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm
ContextHighlight   In THE GOLDEN BIRD
17  So, to make a sort of drawn battle of the matter, it was settled that Heinel should be put into an open boat, that lay on the sea-shore hard by; that the father should push him off with his own hand, and that he should thus be set adrift, and left to the bad or good luck of wind and weather.
Grimms' Fairy Tales By Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm
ContextHighlight   In THE KING OF THE GOLDEN MOUNTAIN
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