1 Now this fairy could take any shape she pleased.
Grimms' Fairy Tales By Jacob and Wilhelm GrimmContextHighlight In JORINDA AND JORINDEL 2 The king of a great land died, and left his queen to take care of their only child.
Grimms' Fairy Tales By Jacob and Wilhelm GrimmContextHighlight In THE GOOSE-GIRL 3 The countryman then began to tell his tale, and said he was going to take the goose to a christening.
4 She looked so beautiful that he could not take his eyes off her, so he stooped down and gave her a kiss.
5 The frog called after her, 'Stay, princess, and take me with you as you said,' But she did not stop to hear a word.
Grimms' Fairy Tales By Jacob and Wilhelm GrimmContextHighlight In THE FROG-PRINCE 6 The soldier wished to take away some token of the place; so he broke off a little branch, and there came a loud noise from the tree.
Grimms' Fairy Tales By Jacob and Wilhelm GrimmContextHighlight In THE TWELVE DANCING PRINCESSES 7 Now, as she had not been asked to the feast she was very angry, and scolded the king and queen very much, and set to work to take her revenge.
8 They had wandered a long way; and when they looked to see which way they should go home, they found themselves at a loss to know what path to take.
Grimms' Fairy Tales By Jacob and Wilhelm GrimmContextHighlight In JORINDA AND JORINDEL 9 Now this hill was so big that the whole world could not take it away: and when he had worked for seven days, and had done very little, the fox came and said.
Grimms' Fairy Tales By Jacob and Wilhelm GrimmContextHighlight In THE GOLDEN BIRD 10 At last he could go no farther, for the stone tired him sadly: and he dragged himself to the side of a river, that he might take a drink of water, and rest a while.
11 Thus war was announced to the Bear, and all four-footed animals were summoned to take part in it, oxen, asses, cows, deer, and every other animal the earth contained.
Grimms' Fairy Tales By Jacob and Wilhelm GrimmContextHighlight In THE WILLOW-WREN AND THE BEAR 12 At length, after much consideration, the cat said: 'I know no place where it will be better stored up than in the church, for no one dares take anything away from there.'
Grimms' Fairy Tales By Jacob and Wilhelm GrimmContextHighlight In CAT AND MOUSE IN PARTNERSHIP 13 Your master, you know, goes out every morning very early with his wife into the field; and they take their little child with them, and lay it down behind the hedge in the shade while they are at work.
14 One fine evening a young princess put on her bonnet and clogs, and went out to take a walk by herself in a wood; and when she came to a cool spring of water, that rose in the midst of it, she sat herself down to rest a while.
Grimms' Fairy Tales By Jacob and Wilhelm GrimmContextHighlight In THE FROG-PRINCE 15 But the heat grew greater as soon as noon came on, till at last, as he found himself on a wide heath that would take him more than an hour to cross, he began to be so hot and parched that his tongue clave to the roof of his mouth.
16 He told her that he had been enchanted by a spiteful fairy, who had changed him into a frog; and that he had been fated so to abide till some princess should take him out of the spring, and let him eat from her plate, and sleep upon her bed for three nights.
Grimms' Fairy Tales By Jacob and Wilhelm GrimmContextHighlight In THE FROG-PRINCE 17 As they came to the castle, all was as the fox had said, and at twelve o'clock the young man met the princess going to the bath and gave her the kiss, and she agreed to run away with him, but begged with many tears that he would let her take leave of her father.
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