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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... turnips were growing . He filled the basket with turnips and hastened back with it to the garden where he had left the Princess . There he found her 20 THE PRINCESS .
... turnips were growing . He filled the basket with turnips and hastened back with it to the garden where he had left the Princess . There he found her 20 THE PRINCESS .
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... turnips , calling out at the same time , " Brinhilda , my dear Brinhilda , come to me . " The turnip immedi- ately jumped out of the basket , and stood before her a full - grown woman ; and the woman appeared to be no other than Brin ...
... turnips , calling out at the same time , " Brinhilda , my dear Brinhilda , come to me . " The turnip immedi- ately jumped out of the basket , and stood before her a full - grown woman ; and the woman appeared to be no other than Brin ...
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... turnips in the garden . She now thought she would be happier if she had all her other nine maidens as well as Brinhilda , and also a pet cat and a pet monkey which she had in her father's palace . So she touched the turnips one after ...
... turnips in the garden . She now thought she would be happier if she had all her other nine maidens as well as Brinhilda , and also a pet cat and a pet monkey which she had in her father's palace . So she touched the turnips one after ...
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... turnips have been pulled they begin before long to fade , because their juice , which is their life , gets gradually dried up , and when the turnips are quite dry and have no juice any more , they die . Now your maidens THE PRINCESS . 25.
... turnips have been pulled they begin before long to fade , because their juice , which is their life , gets gradually dried up , and when the turnips are quite dry and have no juice any more , they die . Now your maidens THE PRINCESS . 25.
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... turnips , and they have been gradually drying up and will soon die , just as if they had re- mained turnips . It is true I have great power , and can do many wonderful things , but I cannot keep them from fading and dying . I am very ...
... turnips , and they have been gradually drying up and will soon die , just as if they had re- mained turnips . It is true I have great power , and can do many wonderful things , but I cannot keep them from fading and dying . I am very ...
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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