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" John's bedroom was all covered with emeralds and other precious stones, and in the ceiling was a diamond as big as a nine-pin bowl, that gave light to the whole chamber. In this place they have neither sun, nor moon, nor stars to give them light ; neither... "
The Fairy Mythology - Page 286
by Thomas Keightley - 1828
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Legends and traditionary stories

Legends - 1843 - 300 pages
...little chamber in the world, and his servant was beside him with a fan to keep away the flies and gnats. He had hardly opened his eyes when his little servant...; neither do they use lamps or candles of any kind ; buf they live in the midst of precious stones, and have the purest of gold and silver in abundance,...
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The fairy book; the best popular fairy stories selected and rendered anew ...

Dinah Maria Mulock Craik - 1863 - 400 pages
...enough for him, for he was as wise as a bee, as all these little people are by nature. John's bedroom was all covered with emeralds and other precious stones,...and have the purest of gold and silver in abundance, from which they manage to obtain light both by day and by night, though indeed, properly speaking,...
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Fairy Tales, Their Origin and Meaning: With Some Account of Dwellers in ...

John Thackray Bunce - 1878 - 296 pages
...will be merciful. Further, you must put into two waggons all the furniture of my chamber (which was covered with emeralds and other precious stones, and...ceiling was a diamond as big as a nine-pin bowl), and get ready for me the handsomest travelling carriage that is in the hill, with six black horses....
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Folk-lore and Legends: Scandinavian

1891 - 208 pages
...enough for him, for he was as wise as a bee, as all these little people are by nature. Scandinavian, John's bedchamber was all covered with emeralds and...stars to give them light, neither do they use lamps or candlesticks of any kind, but they live in the midst of precious stones, and have the purest of gold...
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Fourth Reader

Walter Lowrie Hervey, Melvin Hix - 1911 - 358 pages
...enough for him, for he was as wise as a bee, as all these little people are by nature. John's bedroom was all covered with emeralds and other precious stones,...and have the purest of gold and silver in abundance, from which they manage to obtain light both by day and by night, though indeed, properly speaking,...
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