German Popular Stories and Fairy TalesGeorge Bell & Sons, 1888 - 306 pages |
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... Giant - killer , and Thomas Thumb , " as the Quarterly Reviewer observes , landed in England from the very same hulls and war- ships which conveyed Hengist and Horsa , and Ebba the Saxon . " The Cat , whose identity and London ...
... Giant - killer , and Thomas Thumb , " as the Quarterly Reviewer observes , landed in England from the very same hulls and war- ships which conveyed Hengist and Horsa , and Ebba the Saxon . " The Cat , whose identity and London ...
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... GIANT 175 THE WATER OF LIFE • 185 EVENING THE NINTH . THE BLUE LIGHT THE THREE CROWS CHANTICLEER AND PARTLET THE FROG - PRINCE 195 202 206 • 214 EVENING THE TENTH . THE ELVES AND THE COBBLER 219 CHERRY THE FROG - BRIDE 222 THE DANCING ...
... GIANT 175 THE WATER OF LIFE • 185 EVENING THE NINTH . THE BLUE LIGHT THE THREE CROWS CHANTICLEER AND PARTLET THE FROG - PRINCE 195 202 206 • 214 EVENING THE TENTH . THE ELVES AND THE COBBLER 219 CHERRY THE FROG - BRIDE 222 THE DANCING ...
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... giant down to a little dwarf no bigger than my finger . And before her stood princes , and dukes , and earls : and the fisherman went up to her and said , " Wife , are you emperor ? " she , " I am emperor . " " Ah ! " said the man , as ...
... giant down to a little dwarf no bigger than my finger . And before her stood princes , and dukes , and earls : and the fisherman went up to her and said , " Wife , are you emperor ? " she , " I am emperor . " " Ah ! " said the man , as ...
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... giants . In Tuhti Nameh's eighth fable [ Calcutta and London , 1801 ] , an elephant is punished for an attack upon the sparrow's nest , by an alliance which she forms with another bird , a frog , and a bee . between ourselves , you must ...
... giants . In Tuhti Nameh's eighth fable [ Calcutta and London , 1801 ] , an elephant is punished for an attack upon the sparrow's nest , by an alliance which she forms with another bird , a frog , and a bee . between ourselves , you must ...
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... giants and other powerful enemies , the favourite of fortune , and the winner of the hands of kings ' daughters ... giant , acquires wonderful power , and passes through a variety of ad- ventures , resembling at various times those ...
... giants and other powerful enemies , the favourite of fortune , and the winner of the hands of kings ' daughters ... giant , acquires wonderful power , and passes through a variety of ad- ventures , resembling at various times those ...
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