1 But her great toe could not go into it, and the shoe was altogether much too small for her.
2 So the silly girl cut off her great toe, and thus squeezed on the shoe, and went to the king's son.
3 Then she went into the room and got her foot into the shoe, all but the heel, which was too large.
4 Then he looked down, and saw that the blood streamed so much from the shoe, that her white stockings were quite red.
5 Then she took her clumsy shoe off her left foot, and put on the golden slipper; and it fitted her as if it had been made for her.
6 'Do what I bid you,' replied the soldier, and again this third night the princess was obliged to work like a servant, but before she went away, she hid her shoe under the bed.
Grimms' Fairy Tales By Jacob and Wilhelm GrimmContext Highlight In THE BLUE LIGHT 7 Next morning the king had the entire town searched for his daughter's shoe.
Grimms' Fairy Tales By Jacob and Wilhelm GrimmContext Highlight In THE BLUE LIGHT 8 He was immediately recognized as one of them; the handkerchief was thrown down, and the iron-heeled shoe replaced on the foot of the wretch to whom it belonged.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre DumasContext Highlight In Chapter 107. The Lions' Den. 9 Then, very gradually, part by part, a pale dangling individual stepped out of the wreck, pawing tentatively at the ground with a large uncertain dancing shoe.
10 On the white steps an obscene word, scrawled by some boy with a piece of brick, stood out clearly in the moonlight and I erased it, drawing my shoe raspingly along the stone.
11 As Estella dealt the cards, I glanced at the dressing-table again, and saw that the shoe upon it, once white, now yellow, had never been worn.
12 I glanced down at the foot from which the shoe was absent, and saw that the silk stocking on it, once white, now yellow, had been trodden ragged.
13 The last I saw of them was, when I presently heard a scuffle behind me, and looking back, saw Joe throwing an old shoe after me and Biddy throwing another old shoe.
14 Sitting near her, with the white shoe, that had never been worn, in her hand, and her head bent as she looked at it, was an elegant lady whom I had never seen.
15 Estella laughed, and looked at the shoe in her hand, and laughed again, and looked at me, and put the shoe down.