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1  The ass, being the tallest of the company, marched up to the window and peeped in.
Grimms' Fairy Tales By Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm
ContextHighlight   In THE TRAVELLING MUSICIANS
2  Long before the end of the hour the work was quite done, and all flew out again at the windows.
Grimms' Fairy Tales By Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm
ContextHighlight   In ASHPUTTEL
3  One summer's morning a little tailor was sitting on his table by the window; he was in good spirits, and sewed with all his might.
Grimms' Fairy Tales By Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm
ContextHighlight   In THE VALIANT LITTLE TAILOR
4  Hansel reached up above, and broke off a little of the roof to try how it tasted, and Gretel leant against the window and nibbled at the panes.
Grimms' Fairy Tales By Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm
ContextHighlight   In HANSEL AND GRETEL
5  She had not been there long before she heard that the king's eldest son was passing by, going to be married; and she went to one of the windows and looked out.
Grimms' Fairy Tales By Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm
ContextHighlight   In KING GRISLY-BEARD
6  These people had a little window at the back of their house from which a splendid garden could be seen, which was full of the most beautiful flowers and herbs.
Grimms' Fairy Tales By Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm
ContextHighlight   In RAPUNZEL
7  When she was twelve years old, the enchantress shut her into a tower, which lay in a forest, and had neither stairs nor door, but quite at the top was a little window.
Grimms' Fairy Tales By Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm
ContextHighlight   In RAPUNZEL
8  Now the old king happened just then to have nothing else to do; so he amused himself by sitting at his kitchen window, looking at what was going on; and he saw her in the courtyard.
Grimms' Fairy Tales By Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm
ContextHighlight   In THE GOOSE-GIRL
9  The boar ran after him, but the tailor ran round outside and shut the door behind it, and then the raging beast, which was much too heavy and awkward to leap out of the window, was caught.
Grimms' Fairy Tales By Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm
ContextHighlight   In THE VALIANT LITTLE TAILOR
10  So she took him to a baker's shop, and pecked at two rolls that lay in the window, till they fell down: and as the dog still wished for more, she took him to another shop and pecked down some more for him.
Grimms' Fairy Tales By Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm
ContextHighlight   In THE DOG AND THE SPARROW
11  The ass placed himself upright on his hind legs, with his forefeet resting against the window; the dog got upon his back; the cat scrambled up to the dog's shoulders, and the cock flew up and sat upon the cat's head.
Grimms' Fairy Tales By Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm
ContextHighlight   In THE TRAVELLING MUSICIANS
12  It so happened that his road one day led through a thick wood, at the end of which was a large castle in a green meadow, and at one of the windows stood an old woman with a very beautiful young lady by her side looking about them.
Grimms' Fairy Tales By Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm
ContextHighlight   In THE SALAD
13  When the boar perceived the tailor, it ran on him with foaming mouth and whetted tusks, and was about to throw him to the ground, but the hero fled and sprang into a chapel which was near and up to the window at once, and in one bound out again.
Grimms' Fairy Tales By Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm
ContextHighlight   In THE VALIANT LITTLE TAILOR
14  Then he went on still farther, and all was so still that he could hear every breath he drew; till at last he came to the old tower, and opened the door of the little room in which Briar Rose was; and there she lay, fast asleep on a couch by the window.
Grimms' Fairy Tales By Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm
ContextHighlight   In BRIAR ROSE
15  Rapunzel had magnificent long hair, fine as spun gold, and when she heard the voice of the enchantress she unfastened her braided tresses, wound them round one of the hooks of the window above, and then the hair fell twenty ells down, and the enchantress climbed up by it.
Grimms' Fairy Tales By Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm
ContextHighlight   In RAPUNZEL
16  He met the fox, who gave him the good advice: but when he came to the two inns, his eldest brother was standing at the window where the merrymaking was, and called to him to come in; and he could not withstand the temptation, but went in, and forgot the golden bird and his country in the same manner.
Grimms' Fairy Tales By Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm
ContextHighlight   In THE GOLDEN BIRD
17  And when its song was over, it spread its wings and flew away before them, and they followed it until they reached a little house, on the roof of which it alighted; and when they approached the little house they saw that it was built of bread and covered with cakes, but that the windows were of clear sugar.
Grimms' Fairy Tales By Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm
ContextHighlight   In HANSEL AND GRETEL
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