1 The ugly apes sat upon the trees, and grinned.
2 In autumn the wood-cutters always came and felled some of the largest trees.
Andersen's Fairy Tales By Hans Christian AndersenContextHighlight In THE FIR TREE 3 So they went into Death's great greenhouse, where flowers and trees grew strangely into one another.
Andersen's Fairy Tales By Hans Christian AndersenContextHighlight In THE STORY OF A MOTHER 4 She and Gerda got in; and then away they drove over the stumps of felled trees, deeper and deeper into the woods.
Andersen's Fairy Tales By Hans Christian AndersenContextHighlight In THE SNOW QUEEN 5 The banks on both sides were beautiful; lovely flowers, venerable trees, and slopes with sheep and cows, but not a human being was to be seen.
Andersen's Fairy Tales By Hans Christian AndersenContextHighlight In THE SNOW QUEEN 6 These young trees, and they were always the finest looking, retained their branches; they were laid on carts, and the horses drew them out of the wood.
Andersen's Fairy Tales By Hans Christian AndersenContextHighlight In THE FIR TREE 7 When Christmas came, quite young trees were cut down: trees which often were not even as large or of the same age as this Fir Tree, who could never rest, but always wanted to be off.
Andersen's Fairy Tales By Hans Christian AndersenContextHighlight In THE FIR TREE 8 At the end of a year he had shot up a good deal, and after another year he was another long bit taller; for with fir trees one can always tell by the shoots how many years old they are.
Andersen's Fairy Tales By Hans Christian AndersenContextHighlight In THE FIR TREE 9 And all the trees were covered with hoar-frost; they looked like white corals; the snow crackled under foot, as if one had new boots on; and one falling star after the other was seen in the sky.
Andersen's Fairy Tales By Hans Christian AndersenContextHighlight In THE ELDERBUSH 10 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.
11 There were large trees in small pots, so that they stood so stunted in growth, and ready to burst the pots; in other places, there was a little dull flower in rich mould, with moss round about it, and it was so petted and nursed.
Andersen's Fairy Tales By Hans Christian AndersenContextHighlight In THE STORY OF A MOTHER 12 And the wood and the sea sang a song of rejoicing, and his heart sang with the rest: all nature was a vast holy church, in which the trees and the buoyant clouds were the pillars, flowers and grass the velvet carpeting, and heaven itself the large cupola.
13 This happened every year; and the young Fir Tree, that had now grown to a very comely size, trembled at the sight; for the magnificent great trees fell to the earth with noise and cracking, the branches were lopped off, and the trees looked long and bare; they were hardly to be recognised; and then they were laid in carts, and the horses dragged them out of the wood.
Andersen's Fairy Tales By Hans Christian AndersenContextHighlight In THE FIR TREE