1 There was once a fisherman who lived with his wife in a pigsty, close by the seaside.
Grimms' Fairy Tales By Jacob and Wilhelm GrimmContext Highlight In THE FISHERMAN AND HIS WIFE 2 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 GrimmContext Highlight In THE FISHERMAN AND HIS WIFE 3 So away went the fisherman, and found his wife standing before the gate of a great castle.
Grimms' Fairy Tales By Jacob and Wilhelm GrimmContext Highlight In THE FISHERMAN AND HIS WIFE 4 Then the fisherman went home; and as he came close to the palace he saw a troop of soldiers, and heard the sound of drums and trumpets.
Grimms' Fairy Tales By Jacob and Wilhelm GrimmContext Highlight In THE FISHERMAN AND HIS WIFE 5 Then the fisherman went home, and found Ilsabill sitting on a throne that was two miles high.
Grimms' Fairy Tales By Jacob and Wilhelm GrimmContext Highlight In THE FISHERMAN AND HIS WIFE 6 The fisherman was half asleep, but the thought frightened him so much that he started and fell out of bed.
Grimms' Fairy Tales By Jacob and Wilhelm GrimmContext Highlight In THE FISHERMAN AND HIS WIFE 7 But she exclaimed over the lakes: dark water reflecting wooded bluffs, a flight of ducks, a fisherman in shirt sleeves and a wide straw hat, holding up a string of croppies.
8 Now, this occasional inevitable sinking of the recently killed Sperm Whale is a very curious thing; nor has any fisherman yet adequately accounted for it.
Moby Dick By Herman MelvilleContext Highlight In CHAPTER 81. The Pequod Meets The Virgin. 9 Nevertheless, in the proper place we shall see that no knowing fisherman will ever turn up his nose at such a whale as this, however much he may shun blasted whales in general.
Moby Dick By Herman MelvilleContext Highlight In CHAPTER 91. The Pequod Meets The Rose-Bud. 10 Let's see now if ye haven't fished him up here, fisherman.
11 As I sat beside the bed, when hope was abandoned and all was done, a fisherman, who had known me when Emily and I were children, and ever since, whispered my name at the door.
12 When you have arrived there you will go to a mean tavern, without a name and without a sign--a mere fisherman's hut.
The Three Musketeers By Alexandre DumasContext Highlight In 21 THE COUNTESS DE WINTER