1 The Fir Tree stood quite still and absorbed in thought; the birds in the wood had never related the like of this.
Andersen's Fairy Tales By Hans Christian AndersenContextHighlight In THE FIR TREE 2 But on he went, without being disheartened, deeper and deeper into the wood, where the most wonderful flowers were growing.
3 At the same moment the bell sounded deep in the wood, so clear and solemnly that five or six determined to penetrate somewhat further.
4 These young trees, and they were always the finest looking, retained their branches; they were laid on carts, and the horses drew them out of the wood.
Andersen's Fairy Tales By Hans Christian AndersenContextHighlight In THE FIR TREE 5 They drove through the dark wood; but the carriage shone like a torch, and it dazzled the eyes of the robbers, so that they could not bear to look at it.
Andersen's Fairy Tales By Hans Christian AndersenContextHighlight In THE SNOW QUEEN 6 Many persons now went to the wood, for the sake of getting the place, but one only returned with a sort of explanation; for nobody went far enough, that one not further than the others.
7 The sun was shining gloriously; the children that had been confirmed went out of the town; and from the wood was borne towards them the sounds of the unknown bell with wonderful distinctness.
8 A knight with a gleaming plume, and most magnificently dressed, held him before him on the horse, and thus they rode through the wood to the old town of Bordingborg, and that was a large and very lively town.
Andersen's Fairy Tales By Hans Christian AndersenContextHighlight In THE DREAM OF LITTLE TUK 9 He gazed at the street formerly so well known to him, and now so strange in appearance, and looked at the houses more attentively: most of them were of wood, slightly put together; and many had a thatched roof.
Andersen's Fairy Tales By Hans Christian AndersenContextHighlight In THE SHOES OF FORTUNE 10 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 AndersenContextHighlight In THE SNOW QUEEN 11 "But there we shall not meet," said the King's Son, nodding at the same time to the poor boy, who went into the darkest, thickest part of the wood, where thorns tore his humble dress, and scratched his face and hands and feet till they bled.
12 He was dragging along some pointed flat pieces of ice, which he laid together in all possible ways, for he wanted to make something with them; just as we have little flat pieces of wood to make geometrical figures with, called the Chinese Puzzle.
Andersen's Fairy Tales By Hans Christian AndersenContextHighlight In THE SNOW QUEEN 13 And the wood and the sea sang a song of rejoicing, and his heart sang with the rest: all nature was a vast holy church, in which the trees and the buoyant clouds were the pillars, flowers and grass the velvet carpeting, and heaven itself the large cupola.
14 And the rich people drove out, and the poor walked, but the way seemed strangely long to them; and when they came to a clump of willows which grew on the skirts of the forest, they sat down, and looked up at the long branches, and fancied they were now in the depth of the green wood.
15 And the Tree beheld all the beauty of the flowers, and the freshness in the garden; he beheld himself, and wished he had remained in his dark corner in the loft; he thought of his first youth in the wood, of the merry Christmas-eve, and of the little Mice who had listened with so much pleasure to the story of Humpy-Dumpy.
Andersen's Fairy Tales By Hans Christian AndersenContextHighlight In THE FIR TREE 16 The red colors above faded away as the sun vanished, but a million stars were lighted, a million lamps shone; and the King's Son spread out his arms towards heaven, and wood, and sea; when at the same moment, coming by a path to the right, appeared, in his wooden shoes and jacket, the poor boy who had been confirmed with him.
17 This happened every year; and the young Fir Tree, that had now grown to a very comely size, trembled at the sight; for the magnificent great trees fell to the earth with noise and cracking, the branches were lopped off, and the trees looked long and bare; they were hardly to be recognised; and then they were laid in carts, and the horses dragged them out of the wood.
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