1 There stood poor Gerda now, without shoes or gloves, in the very middle of dreadful icy Finland.
Andersen's Fairy Tales By Hans Christian AndersenContextHighlight In THE SNOW QUEEN 2 On the very day her mother was buried, Karen received the red shoes, and wore them for the first time.
Andersen's Fairy Tales By Hans Christian AndersenContextHighlight In THE RED SHOES 3 He seated himself once more and nodded: the dream continued to haunt him, for he still had the shoes on his feet.
Andersen's Fairy Tales By Hans Christian AndersenContextHighlight In THE SHOES OF FORTUNE 4 It was quite early; she kissed her old grandmother, who was still asleep, put on her red shoes, and went alone to the river.
Andersen's Fairy Tales By Hans Christian AndersenContextHighlight In THE SNOW QUEEN 5 And Karen believed all this happened on account of the red shoes, but the old lady thought they were horrible, and they were burnt.
Andersen's Fairy Tales By Hans Christian AndersenContextHighlight In THE RED SHOES 6 While expressing his wish, the charm of the shoes, which he had put on, began to work; the watchman entered into the being and nature of the lieutenant.
Andersen's Fairy Tales By Hans Christian AndersenContextHighlight In THE SHOES OF FORTUNE 7 This he had done, and was now going on in wooden shoes and in his humble dress, for the bell sounded with so deep a tone, and with such strange power, that proceed he must.
8 A rustling was heard in the bushes, and a little boy stood before the King's Son, a boy in wooden shoes, and with so short a jacket that one could see what long wrists he had.
9 And, as it seemed to her, the blue waves nodded in a strange manner; then she took off her red shoes, the most precious things she possessed, and threw them both into the river.
Andersen's Fairy Tales By Hans Christian AndersenContextHighlight In THE SNOW QUEEN 10 In the middle of the village lived old Dame Shoemaker; she sat and sewed together, as well as she could, a little pair of shoes out of old red strips of cloth; they were very clumsy, but it was a kind thought.
Andersen's Fairy Tales By Hans Christian AndersenContextHighlight In THE RED SHOES 11 By the magic power of the shoes he was carried back to the times of King Hans; on which account his foot very naturally sank in the mud and puddles of the street, there having been in those days no pavement in Copenhagen.
Andersen's Fairy Tales By Hans Christian AndersenContextHighlight In THE SHOES OF FORTUNE 12 They offered to let her stay at the palace, and lead a happy life; but she begged to have a little carriage with a horse in front, and for a small pair of shoes; then, she said, she would again go forth in the wide world and look for Kay.
Andersen's Fairy Tales By Hans Christian AndersenContextHighlight In THE SNOW QUEEN 13 While the conversation turned on this subject, and was only for a moment interrupted by the arrival of a journal that contained nothing worth reading, we will just step out into the antechamber, where cloaks, mackintoshes, sticks, umbrellas, and shoes, were deposited.
Andersen's Fairy Tales By Hans Christian AndersenContextHighlight In THE SHOES OF FORTUNE 14 And this little daughter was a princess, and people streamed to the castle, and Karen was there also, and the little princess stood in her fine white dress, in a window, and let herself be stared at; she had neither a train nor a golden crown, but splendid red morocco shoes.
Andersen's Fairy Tales By Hans Christian AndersenContextHighlight In THE RED SHOES 15 It was the shoes that caused the metamorphosis by means of which, unknown to himself, he took upon him the thoughts and feelings of the officer; but, as we have just seen, he felt himself in his new situation much less contented, and now preferred the very thing which but some minutes before he had rejected.
Andersen's Fairy Tales By Hans Christian AndersenContextHighlight In THE SHOES OF FORTUNE 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 But the poor child that had been confirmed was quite ashamed; he looked at his wooden shoes, pulled at the short sleeves of his jacket, and said that he was afraid he could not walk so fast; besides, he thought that the bell must be looked for to the right; for that was the place where all sorts of beautiful things were to be found.
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