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Some time after the neighbour's wife dies, the man notices Seline has fine golden hair like his deceased wife, and decides to marry her. Seline laughs at the proposal, but, realizing he is serious, and her own father seems inclined to agree, she tries to delay the wedding by asking for three dresses: one shining like the midday sun, one like a ...
Reynard's principal castle, Maupertuis, is available to him whenever he needs to hide away from his enemies. Some of the tales feature Reynard's funeral, where his enemies gather to deliver maudlin elegies full of insincere piety, and which feature Reynard's posthumous revenge. Reynard's wife Hermeline appears in the stories, but plays little ...
For example, while Rizzo the Rat sells his collection of rare cheese to buy Gonzo a dish for his mold collection, Gonzo reveals he sold his mold collection to buy Rizzo a cheese slicer. In 2004, during the intro of Season 1, Episode 7 of The L Word ("L'Ennui"), Marina Ferrer 's lover, Francesca Wolff , synopsizes the story while she seduces the ...
The lion Aslan gives his life to save one of the children; he later rises from the dead, vanquishes the White Witch, and crowns the children Kings and Queens of Narnia. Lewis wrote the book for (and dedicated it to) his goddaughter, Lucy Barfield. She was the daughter of Owen Barfield, Lewis's friend, teacher, adviser and trustee. [4]
A print showing cats and mice from a 1501 German edition of Aesop's Fables. This list of fictional rodents is subsidiary to the list of fictional animals and covers all rodents, including beavers, mice, chipmunks, gophers, guinea pigs, hamsters, marmots, prairie dogs, porcupines and squirrels, as well as extinct or prehistoric species.
From If You Give a Mouse a Cookie. The entire story is told in second person.A boy named Matthew gives a cookie to a mouse. The mouse asks for a glass of milk. He then requests a straw (to drink the milk), a napkin and then a mirror (to avoid a milk mustache), nail scissors (to trim his hair in the mirror), and a broom (to sweep up his hair trimmings).
Image credits: littlemsocd #10. I’ll use my dad as an example. He pursues his interests no matter what they may be. My dad was a butcher and a car mechanic.
In "The Tortoise and the Hair", a re-telling of "The Tortoise and the Hare", a Rabbit says he can grow his hair (one on the top of his head) faster than the Tortoise can run; this story has no ending, the last words of it being "not the end." The foreword includes a parody of "Goldilocks and the Three Bears" as an example of a "Fairly Stupid ...