1 There were two brothers who were both soldiers; the one was rich and the other poor.
2 Then the entire village was dead, and the small peasant, as sole heir, became a rich man.
Grimms' Fairy Tales By Jacob and Wilhelm GrimmContextHighlight In THE LITTLE PEASANT 3 And the servants gave her some of the rich meats, which she put into her basket to take home.
Grimms' Fairy Tales By Jacob and Wilhelm GrimmContextHighlight In KING GRISLY-BEARD 4 When he had doctored people awhile, but not long, a rich and great lord had some money stolen.
Grimms' Fairy Tales By Jacob and Wilhelm GrimmContextHighlight In DOCTOR KNOWALL 5 Long, long ago, some two thousand years or so, there lived a rich man with a good and beautiful wife.
Grimms' Fairy Tales By Jacob and Wilhelm GrimmContextHighlight In THE JUNIPER-TREE 6 One gave her goodness, another beauty, another riches, and so on till she had all that was good in the world.
7 These little wights have made us rich, and we ought to be thankful to them, and do them a good turn if we can.
Grimms' Fairy Tales By Jacob and Wilhelm GrimmContextHighlight In THE ELVES AND THE SHOEMAKER 8 Then she went in to her mother and sister, and as she was so richly covered with gold, they gave her a warm welcome.
9 Then he gave him gold and lands and flocks, and made him so rich that his brother's fortune could not at all be compared with his.
10 There was a certain village wherein no one lived but really rich peasants, and just one poor one, whom they called the little peasant.
Grimms' Fairy Tales By Jacob and Wilhelm GrimmContextHighlight In THE LITTLE PEASANT 11 Not long after a suitor appeared, and as he appeared to be very rich and the miller could see nothing in him with which to find fault, he betrothed his daughter to him.
Grimms' Fairy Tales By Jacob and Wilhelm GrimmContextHighlight In THE ROBBER BRIDEGROOM 12 He had two richly laden ships then making a voyage upon the seas, in which he had embarked all his wealth, in the hope of making great gains, when the news came that both were lost.
Grimms' Fairy Tales By Jacob and Wilhelm GrimmContextHighlight In THE KING OF THE GOLDEN MOUNTAIN 13 She related to them all that had happened, and when the mother heard how she had come by her great riches, she thought she should like her ugly, lazy daughter to go and try her fortune.
14 When the brother heard of all this, and how a turnip had made the gardener so rich, he envied him sorely, and bethought himself how he could contrive to get the same good fortune for himself.
15 Thus from being a rich man he became all at once so very poor that nothing was left to him but one small plot of land; and there he often went in an evening to take his walk, and ease his mind of a little of his trouble.
Grimms' Fairy Tales By Jacob and Wilhelm GrimmContextHighlight In THE KING OF THE GOLDEN MOUNTAIN 16 But they did not know her, and thought it must be some strange princess, she looked so fine and beautiful in her rich clothes; and they never once thought of Ashputtel, taking it for granted that she was safe at home in the dirt.
17 Some time after, three grand embassies came to the old king's court, with rich gifts of gold and precious stones for his youngest son; now all these were sent from the three kings to whom he had lent his sword and loaf of bread, in order to rid them of their enemy and feed their people.
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