1 He looked for the house, but it had vanished.
Andersen's Fairy Tales By Hans Christian AndersenContextHighlight In THE SHOES OF FORTUNE 2 Suddenly they stopped before a little house, which looked very miserable.
Andersen's Fairy Tales By Hans Christian AndersenContextHighlight In THE SNOW QUEEN 3 And the old errand man looked quite pleased, nodded, and took the pewter soldier over to the old house.
Andersen's Fairy Tales By Hans Christian AndersenContextHighlight In THE OLD HOUSE 4 The Councillor saw quite distinctly before him a lantern burning, and behind this a large handsome house.
Andersen's Fairy Tales By Hans Christian AndersenContextHighlight In THE SHOES OF FORTUNE 5 The neighboring house had a something familiar about it; a window stood open; he flew in; it was his own room.
Andersen's Fairy Tales By Hans Christian AndersenContextHighlight In THE SHOES OF FORTUNE 6 The beams glided down the white walls of a neighbor's house, and close by the fresh yellow flowers were growing, shining like gold in the warm sun-rays.
Andersen's Fairy Tales By Hans Christian AndersenContextHighlight In THE SNOW QUEEN 7 That was a house to look at; and there lived an old man, who wore plush breeches; and he had a coat with large brass buttons, and a wig that one could see was a real wig.
Andersen's Fairy Tales By Hans Christian AndersenContextHighlight In THE OLD HOUSE 8 Every morning there came an old fellow to him who put his rooms in order, and went on errands; otherwise, the old man in the plush breeches was quite alone in the old house.
Andersen's Fairy Tales By Hans Christian AndersenContextHighlight In THE OLD HOUSE 9 The little boy returned home happy and pleased, and weeks and days passed away, and nods were made to the old house, and from the old house, and then the little boy went over there again.
Andersen's Fairy Tales By Hans Christian AndersenContextHighlight In THE OLD HOUSE 10 Afterwards there came a message; it was to ask if the little boy himself had not a wish to come over and pay a visit; and so he got permission of his parents, and then went over to the old house.
Andersen's Fairy Tales By Hans Christian AndersenContextHighlight In THE OLD HOUSE 11 They afterwards came to a little house, made of branches and the bark of trees; a large wild apple-tree bent over it, as if it would shower down all its blessings on the roof, where roses were blooming.
12 The worthy man was inclined to ring and deliver them at the house, for there was still a light in the window; but he did not like disturbing the other people in their beds, and so very considerately he left the matter alone.
Andersen's Fairy Tales By Hans Christian AndersenContextHighlight In THE SHOES OF FORTUNE 13 The fact was, he had been just brought out of the fields, and put in a pasteboard house, three stories high, all made of court-cards, with the colored side inwards; and doors and windows cut out of the body of the Queen of Hearts.
Andersen's Fairy Tales By Hans Christian AndersenContextHighlight In THE LEAP-FROG 14 Some days afterwards there was an auction at the old house, and the little boy saw from his window how they carried the old knights and the old ladies away, the flower-pots with the long ears, the old chairs, and the old clothes-presses.
Andersen's Fairy Tales By Hans Christian AndersenContextHighlight In THE OLD HOUSE 15 He was considerably heavier, but he was well-mannered, and wore a green uniform, which he had by right of birth; he said, moreover, that he belonged to a very ancient Egyptian family, and that in the house where he then was, he was thought much of.
Andersen's Fairy Tales By Hans Christian AndersenContextHighlight In THE LEAP-FROG 16 They inhabited two garrets; and where the roof of the one house joined that of the other, and the gutter ran along the extreme end of it, there was to each house a small window: one needed only to step over the gutter to get from one window to the other.
Andersen's Fairy Tales By Hans Christian AndersenContextHighlight In THE SNOW QUEEN 17 On the other side of the street were also new and neat houses, and they thought just as the others did; but at the window opposite the old house there sat a little boy with fresh rosy cheeks and bright beaming eyes: he certainly liked the old house best, and that both in sunshine and moonshine.
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