Celtic Fairy Tales

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Joseph Jacobs
D. Nutt, 1892 - 267 ページ
 

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xvii
II
5
III
26
IV
30
V
34
VI
47
VII
57
VIII
61
XIV
112
XV
121
XVI
131
XVII
144
XVIII
156
XIX
169
XX
182
XXI
192

IX
65
X
83
XI
88
XII
93
XIII
99
XXII
195
XXIII
200
XXIV
206
XXV
223
XXVI
226

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103 ページ - More yellow was her head than the flower of the broom, and her skin was whiter than the foam of the wave, and fairer were her hands and her fingers than the blossoms of the wood anemone amidst the spray of the meadow fountain.
108 ページ - I should do for an embassy from Arthur. There is a race of animals who were formed before me, and I will be your guide to them.
96 ページ - ... me if I do the job for you? that's the chat,' says Saint Kavin. 'I'll give you whatever you ax,' says the king; 'isn't that fair?' 'Divil a fairer,' says the saint; 'that's the way to do business. Now,' says he, 'this is the bargain I'll make with you, King O'Toole: will you gi' me all the ground the goose flies over, the first offer, afther I make her as good as new?
32 ページ - ... prepare her home against the enchantments of the witches if they returned again. And first, to break their spells, she sprinkled the water in which she had washed her child's feet (the feet-water) outside the door on the threshold; secondly, she took the cake which the witches had made in her absence, of meal mixed with the blood drawn from the sleeping family. And she broke the cake in bits, and placed a bit in the mouth of each sleeper, and they were restored; and she took the cloth they had...
166 ページ - Thunder an' ounds!' exclaimed the other, 'what a voice in so small a chap ! ' 'Are you strong?' said Fin again; 'are you able to squeeze water out of that white stone?
160 ページ - Fin knew not on what hand to turn him. Right or left — backward or forward — where to go he could form no guess whatsoever. 'Oonagh,' said he, 'can you do nothing for me? Where's all your invention? Am I to be skivered like a rabbit before your eyes, and to have my name disgraced forever in the sight of all my tribe, and me the best man among them?
158 ページ - Cucullin coming towards the house, and of course that he himself might go to look after his distant transactions in other parts of the country, rather than — but no matter — we do not wish to be too hard on Fin. All we have to say is, that if he wanted a spot from which to keep a sharp lookout, — and between ourselves, he did want it grievously, — barring Slieve Croob, or Slieve Donard, or its own cousin Cullamore, he could not find a neater or more convenient situation for it in the sweet...
156 ページ - ... night; for he knew that the poor woman, when he was with her, used to be subject to nightly qualms and configurations, that kept him very anxious, decent man, striving to keep her up to the good spirits and health that she had when they were first married. So, accordingly, he pulled up a fir tree, and, after lopping off the roots and branches, made a walking-stick of it, and set out on his way to Oonagh. Oonagh, or rather Fin, lived at this time on the very tip-top of Knockmany Hill, which faces...
96 ページ - Well, my dear, it was a beautiful sight to see the king standin' with his mouth open, lookin' at his poor ould goose flyin...

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