He took his gold crown from his head and put it on hers, asking her name and begging her to be his w...
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But the swallow flew still farther, and everything became lovlier and grander. Bene ath stately gre...
She told him how she disliked the idea of having the nasty mole for a husband, and having to live wi...
"In four weeks you shall be wedded," said the field-mouse. But Thumbelina be gan to cry, and said t...
"This summer you must sew away at your trousseau," said the field-mouse, for by this time thei r ne...
Then it had fallen to the ground, but it could not remember anything more, and did not know in the l...
Then she laid her head on the bird's breast, but was very much startled, for it was just as if some...
ThumbelinaATXul0 cf0 There was once a woman w ho wanted very much to have a wee little child, but ...
A large black ship with three masts lay upon it; only a single sail was up, for not a breath of win...
Now when her sisters thus rose arm in arm through the sea, the little sister would remain below alo...
She had placed herself on one of the largest, and all the vessels had scudded past in terror while s...
In a little creek she came upon a whole swarm of human children; they were running about quite naked...
It was just because she could not go ashore that she longed so for all these things. Oh! how the yo...
In the following year one of the sisters would be fifteen years old, but how about the others? Each ...
"Yes, and we may get there still sooner," whispered one. "Unseen we enter th e houses of men where ...