| Frank Ward Howard - 1909 - 176 pages
...fairy's turn came next. She advanced, and with her head shaking more with spite than with age said, " When the princess is fifteen years old, she shall prick her finger with a spindle and shall die of the wound." And without speaking one word more, she turned and left... | |
| Maud Summers - Readers - 1909 - 200 pages
...best gifts to the little princess. Just then the door opened and the angry fairy came into the room. "When the princess is fifteen years old she shall prick her finger with a spinning needle and die," said the angry fairy. But there was one kind fairy who had not made... | |
| 1912 - 216 pages
...gifts when the old fairy stepped in. She was angry because she had not been invited. So she cried out, "When the princess is fifteen years old, she shall prick her finger with a spindle and die." Without another word she left the hall. One fairy had not given her gift.... | |
| James Hiram Fassett - Readers - 1914 - 200 pages
...Before the twelfth wise woman could speak, in walked the thirteenth. 127 She cried in a loud voice, "When the princess is fifteen years old she shall prick her finger with a spindle and shall fall down dead." At these words every one turned pale with fright. The twelfth... | |
| James Hiram Fassett - Fairy tales - 1914 - 200 pages
...last. Before the twelfth wise woman could speak, in walked the thirteenth. She cried in a loud voice, "When the princess is fifteen years old she shall prick her finger with a spindle and shall fall down dead." At these words every one turned pale with fright. The twelfth... | |
| Joseph Berg Esenwein, Marietta Stockard - Performing Arts - 1917 - 384 pages
...she stood up, and pointed her wand at the little princess. " I will give my wish ! " she snapped. " When the princess is fifteen years old she shall prick her finger with a spindle, and fall down dead ! " "Oh! Oh!" they all cried. "Don't say that! Please take back... | |
| Education - 1919 - 688 pages
...giks when the old fairy stepped in. She was angry because she had not been invited, so she cried out, "When the princess is fifteen years old, she shall prick her finger with a spindle and die." Without another word she left the hall. One fairy had not given her gift.... | |
| Clara Belle Baker, Edna Dean Baker - Children's poetry - 1924 - 240 pages
...all the fairies but one had made wishes for the little princess. 183 "I, too, have a wish," she said. "When the princess is fifteen years old, she shall prick her finger upon a spindle and die." She turned and ran out of the hall. One good fairy had not made her gift.... | |
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