Stories about Number Nip: The Spirit of the Giant MountainsChatto & Windus, 1881 - 270 páginas Retelling of stories about Number Nip, the legendary spirit of the Giant Mountains in Silesia. First collected by Musaeus in the late 18th century. |
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... knew was the king's palace . Number Nip was not angry when he saw the men and the women and the children , and the flocks and herds among his mountains , because he thought the valleys looked very much better than they did when there ...
... knew was the king's palace . Number Nip was not angry when he saw the men and the women and the children , and the flocks and herds among his mountains , because he thought the valleys looked very much better than they did when there ...
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... knew something more about people than he knew at first . He said to himself , " Men are cheats and rogues , and behave badly to each other . I am ashamed to have them in my Giant Mountain valleys . I wonder that good Mother Earth gives ...
... knew something more about people than he knew at first . He said to himself , " Men are cheats and rogues , and behave badly to each other . I am ashamed to have them in my Giant Mountain valleys . I wonder that good Mother Earth gives ...
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... knew nothing about how she got out of it . When she awoke up from the faint , she saw that she was in a large beau- tiful room , like a very very grandly furnished . large drawing - room She was lying on a couch which she felt soft and ...
... knew nothing about how she got out of it . When she awoke up from the faint , she saw that she was in a large beau- tiful room , like a very very grandly furnished . large drawing - room She was lying on a couch which she felt soft and ...
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... knew he was in the garden , and so she hastened to the top of the tower above the palace gate which led to the garden , and called aloud to him to come to her help . When he came , she burst into tears and scolded him with angry words ...
... knew he was in the garden , and so she hastened to the top of the tower above the palace gate which led to the garden , and called aloud to him to come to her help . When he came , she burst into tears and scolded him with angry words ...
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... knew it would get the warmth of the sun best and grow soonest . After he had sown it , he went to his fire spirits and told them to keep good fires burn- ing below the turnip field , so that the turnips might grow soon . The fire ...
... knew it would get the warmth of the sun best and grow soonest . After he had sown it , he went to his fire spirits and told them to keep good fires burn- ing below the turnip field , so that the turnips might grow soon . The fire ...
Palavras e frases frequentes
amusing answered asked Bailiff Baron basket beautiful Benedick BESANT and JAMES black hoofs BRET HARTE Brinhilda brothers butler called Carl Carlsbad carriage castle Catrine cloth extra cloth limp Coloured Countess Crown 8vo dark daughters delighted Demy 8vo door Edition Essay Facsimile father footman Frau Ursula Fritz Giant Mountains gilt goats gold golden grave-looking happened heard Hirschberg horses JAMES PAYN JAMES RICE JUSTIN MCCARTHY kind Klaus knew ladies landlady landlord looked Lord Giantdale Ludwig MACQUOID maidens marry Meta morning mother Nip's Number Nip numerous Illustrations OUIDA palace poor Portrait postilion priest Prince Ratibon Princess prison Professor punish Rolf Rolf's salmon seen seized Silesia soon spirits Stephen story supper tell things thought told took trees turnips voice walked wife and children WILKIE COLLINS WILLIAM HURRELL MALLOCK window woman wood young
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