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1  So the next morning the wolf sent the boar to challenge Sultan to come into the wood to fight the matter.
Grimms' Fairy Tales By Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm
ContextHighlight   In OLD SULTAN
2  There was once an old castle, that stood in the middle of a deep gloomy wood, and in the castle lived an old fairy.
Grimms' Fairy Tales By Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm
ContextHighlight   In JORINDA AND JORINDEL
3  They could not, however, reach the great city the first day; so when night came on, they went into a wood to sleep.
Grimms' Fairy Tales By Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm
ContextHighlight   In THE TRAVELLING MUSICIANS
4  So he laid himself down; but they managed so clumsily, that the log of wood fell in and was carried away by the stream.
Grimms' Fairy Tales By Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm
ContextHighlight   In THE ADVENTURES OF CHANTICLEER AND PARTLET
5  This, too, happened as the fox said; they carried off the bird, the princess mounted again, and they rode on to a great wood.
Grimms' Fairy Tales By Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm
ContextHighlight   In THE GOLDEN BIRD
6  Then the fox got up behind; and presently the wolf, the bear, the goat, and all the beasts of the wood, came and climbed upon the hearse.
Grimms' Fairy Tales By Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm
ContextHighlight   In THE ADVENTURES OF CHANTICLEER AND PARTLET
7  However, at last it was agreed he should go, for he would not rest at home; and as he came to the wood, he met the fox, and heard the same good counsel.
Grimms' Fairy Tales By Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm
ContextHighlight   In THE GOLDEN BIRD
8  When the moon came they set out, but they found no crumbs, for the many thousands of birds which fly about in the woods and fields had picked them all up.
Grimms' Fairy Tales By Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm
ContextHighlight   In HANSEL AND GRETEL
9  A long while after, he went to walk one day in the wood, and the old fox met him, and besought him with tears in his eyes to kill him, and cut off his head and feet.
Grimms' Fairy Tales By Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm
ContextHighlight   In THE GOLDEN BIRD
10  So the months followed one another, and first the trees budded in the woods, and soon the green branches grew thickly intertwined, and then the blossoms began to fall.
Grimms' Fairy Tales By Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm
ContextHighlight   In THE JUNIPER-TREE
11  He went and listened, and then noticed that it was the sparrows who were chattering together, and telling one another of all kinds of things which they had seen in the fields and woods.
Grimms' Fairy Tales By Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm
ContextHighlight   In THE WHITE SNAKE
12  The brushwood was lighted, and when the flames were burning very high, the woman said: 'Now, children, lay yourselves down by the fire and rest, we will go into the forest and cut some wood.'
Grimms' Fairy Tales By Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm
ContextHighlight   In HANSEL AND GRETEL
13  He ran or flew after her, touched the cage with the flower, and Jorinda stood before him, and threw her arms round his neck looking as beautiful as ever, as beautiful as when they walked together in the wood.
Grimms' Fairy Tales By Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm
ContextHighlight   In JORINDA AND JORINDEL
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 Grimm
ContextHighlight   In THE FROG-PRINCE
15  Now it chanced that an old soldier, who had been wounded in battle and could fight no longer, passed through the country where this king reigned: and as he was travelling through a wood, he met an old woman, who asked him where he was going.
Grimms' Fairy Tales By Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm
ContextHighlight   In THE TWELVE DANCING PRINCESSES
16  Then the gardener's eldest son set out and thought to find the golden bird very easily; and when he had gone but a little way, he came to a wood, and by the side of the wood he saw a fox sitting; so he took his bow and made ready to shoot at it.
Grimms' Fairy Tales By Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm
ContextHighlight   In THE GOLDEN BIRD
17  Poor Sultan, who was lying close by them, heard all that the shepherd and his wife said to one another, and was very much frightened to think tomorrow would be his last day; so in the evening he went to his good friend the wolf, who lived in the wood, and told him all his sorrows, and how his master meant to kill him in the morning.
Grimms' Fairy Tales By Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm
ContextHighlight   In OLD SULTAN
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