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Touch her precious pigtail, even by accident, and she’ll kick you in the shins, the brat.
Ellen Raskin • The Westing Game (Puffin Modern Classics)
She had been picturing a village of mice living their lives under the bath, playing violins, going to school, having
Diana Evans • Ordinary People: Shortlisted for the Women's Prize for Fiction 2019
Gerda jumped for joy, and played till the sun went down behind the tall cherry-trees; then she slept in an elegant bed with red silk pillows, embroidered with coloured violets; and then she dreamed as pleasantly as a queen on her wedding day.
Hans Christian Andersen • Hans Christian Andersen: The Complete Fairy Tales and Stories (The Greatest Writers of All Time Book 2)

As for the sound of the poor old lame horse’s hooves, in English versions we have a choice of ‘higgledy-hop’ (D. L. Ashliman, A Guide to Folktales in the English Language), ‘clippety clop’ (Ralph Mannheim, The Penguin Complete Grimms’ Tales for Young and Old), ‘hobblety jig’ (Margaret Hunt, The Complete Grimm’s Fairy Tales), ‘hippety-hop’ (Jack Zip
... See morePHILIP PULLMAN • Fairy Tales from the Brothers Grimm: A New English Version (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)

“Father’s got the sack from the water–works For smoking of his old cherry–briar; Father’s got the sack from the water–works ‘Cos he might set the water–works on fire.”
G. K. Chesterton • The G. K. Chesterton Collection [50 Books]
What I especially like about this tale is the young hunter’s cheerful good nature. It’s remarkable how few details of behaviour we need to evoke a personality.
PHILIP PULLMAN • Fairy Tales from the Brothers Grimm: A New English Version (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)
Like the child in the tale, they all lost their handmade shoes somewhere along the way and found their way to the poisoned red shoes.