It was a horrid sight to look upon these fiend-like dwarfs squatted around the fires, holding up half-naked bones in their long, wrinkled arms, and tearing off the flesh with their glistening teeth.
And the man was about guiding his horse in among the loose rocks, so as to pass unperceived between the dwarfs and the mountain.
Yet dwarfs are met with in some districts, and in others "the inhabitants are a wretched lot, much afflicted with goitre, amongst whom may be seen cretins who crawl about on all fours with the pigs in the gutter.
But "ethnologic truth" obliges us to say that the identification of the African Negrillo with Kollmann's European dwarfs still lacks scientific proof.
Of course she married the prince, and she, her husband and the good little dwarfs lived happily ever after, but the cruel step-mother came to a bad end, and no one was even sorry for her.
She decided that Snowdrop must die, so she dyed her face and dressed up like an old pedlar, and in this disguise she went to the home of the seven Dwarfs and called out, "Laces for sale.
They made a fine glass coffin, and put Snowdrop into it and were carrying her away to bury her when they met a prince, who fell in love with the little dead maiden, and begged the dwarfs to give her to him.
Not long after the seven dwarfs came home they found that she was laced too tight and cut the lace, whereupon Snowdrop began to breathe and soon came back to life again.
The dwarfs were so sorry for him they consented, and the prince's servants were about to carry the coffin away when they stumbled and fell over the root of a tree.
When the seven dwarfs came home they found their poor Snowdrop on the floor, and suspecting the bad Queen began to look for the cause, soon finding the comb.
Kvaser traversed the world, teaching men wisdom; but he was treacherously murdered by the dwarfs Fjalar and Gala.
The dwarfs let Kvaser’s blood run into two cups and a kettle.
All the Dwarfswere master-smiths, and when he came upon his friends he found them working hammer and tongs, beating metals into many shapes.
Having killed a man the Dwarfs became more and more bold.
The Æsir and the Vanir laughed joyously to see these things fall harmlessly from him while a throng came to join them in the games; Dwarfs and friendly Giants.
Loki made himself very agreeable to the Dwarfs, praising their work and promising them things that only the Dwellers in Asgard could give, things that the Dwarfs longed to possess.
They took council again and they bethought them of the wonder-work the Dwarfs had made for them, the spear Gungnir, the ship Skidbladnir, the hammer Miölnir.
But the fire he had left went mounting and circling around the Hall that the Dwarfs had built.
For the sake of this hoard he had given up his companionship with the Dwarfs and his delight in making and shaping the things of their workmanship.
Could the Dwarfs be got to make the fetter to bind Fenrir?
The Dwarfs brought Kvasir down into their caverns and they killed him there.
This sword a dagger had t' his page, 375 That was but little for his age; And therefore waited on him so, As dwarfs upon Knights Errant do.
There is death in the dictionary; and, where language is too strictly limited by convention, the ground for expression to grow in is limited also; and we get a potted literature, Chinese dwarfs instead of healthy trees.
There are dwarfs not more than one-fifth of an inch in length, with small heads and jaws, and giants half an inch in length with monstrously enlarged head and jaws, all belonging to the same brood.
In bearing off their spoil in fragments, the pieces are apportioned to the carriers with some degree of regard to fairness of load: the dwarfs taking the smallest pieces, and the strongest fellows with small heads the heaviest portions.
Such beings are the mere dwarfs and mockeries of men.
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And then it dreams of pleasant things, Of fountains filled with fairy fish, Of trees that bear delicious fruit And bow their branches at a wish, Of pretty dwarfs to show the ways Through fairy hills and fairy dales.
Snow White had eaten her apple and fallen asleep and the poor little brown dwarfs came home to find her, as they supposed, dead.
Sunny Boy gave a nervous little squeak as the curtain rose and he saw the dwarfs in their house.
Of all the dwarfs down in the valley below, he is the most useful; he works hard and indefatigably in scorching heat as well as in windy cold weather, so that the fields may produce fruit for us.
Since that time the friendly dwarfs have never more been seen in Cologne, and in other places also they have entirely disappeared.
In England and in Spain the nobles had the portraits of their dwarfs painted by the celebrated artists of the day.
There are somewhat similar dwarfs in other valleys of the Pyrenees, but the number is decreasing, and those of the Ribas Valley are reduced to a few individuals.
Before communication throughout the region was as easy as it is now, it was thought lucky to have one of these dwarfs in a family, and the dwarfs were hired out and even sold to be used in beggary in neighboring cities.
It was the fashion at one time to have dwarfs noted for their wit and wisdom.
In the seventeenth century, in order to gratify the Empress of Austria, Guy-Patin made a congress of all the giants and dwarfs in the Germanic Empire.
Sometimes manydwarfs were present at great and noble gatherings.
In recent years several dwarfs have commanded the popular attention, but none so much as "General Tom Thumb," the celebrated dwarf of Barnum's Circus.
Aldrovandus gives a picture of a famous dwarf of the Duc de Crequi who was only 30 inches tall, though perfectly formed; he also speaks of some dwarfs who were not over 2 feet high.
The Portuguese speak of a race of dwarfs whom they call the Bakka-bakka, and of the Yogas, who inhabit territory as far as the Loango.
Ivald's sons sometimes do good work, but there are many other dwarfs who can do better.
After this the dwarfs took iron which had been brought from the mountains of Norse Land; and, after beating it upon their bellows until it glowed white and hot, Sindre threw it into the furnace.
In the long low hall that the dwarfs had hollowed out within the mountain's heart, the table was spread, and on it was placed every delicacy that could be wished.
Next thedwarfs threw gold into the furnace, and Brok plied the bellows, and Sindre gazed into the flames, as before.
The story of Loki and the Dwarfs is derived from the Younger Edda.
Loki kindly showed them the strange gifts, and told them, that, in his belief, no dwarfs in all the world had ever before wrought such wonderful things.
He then bade her go back to her room, and he ordered the dwarfs to give her everything she asked for while he was away, and the harpers to play the sweetest music for her.
I shall give the dwarfs orders at once, and by this time to-morrow the balls will be wound, and our wedding can take place in the evening.
They are not much bigger than peas, and the dwarfswill not be long at their work.
When the dwarfs saw the giant dead they began to cry and tear their hair.
All the time poor Eileen in the giant's castle was counting the hours, and all this time the dwarfs were winding the balls, and a ball and a half were already wound.
The dwarfs went out to see, and, returning, told him it was a prince who challenged him to battle.
To-morrow thedwarfs will wind the last ball, and to-morrow the giant will claim the princess for his bride.
And the dwarfshad wound two balls, and were winding a third.
He was not aware of what is known now, that these forest dwarfs would disdain the cranes as antagonists, and are quite capable of overcoming the lordly elephant.
In truth, this race of dwarfs may be the primitive stock from which the Mongolians branched off on the one hand, and the Negroes on the other, since they are in some measure intermediate between the two.
If the nomad dwarfs were the aboriginal men, all later races must have developed from them.
Stanley, who frequently met those forest dwarfs in his expedition for the relief of Emin Pacha, gives much information concerning them in his "In Darkest Africa.
These dwarfs were jumping and dancing about Freydis like an insane body-guard.
You could now see these lights were carried by dwarfswho had the eyes of owls and the long beaks of storks.
Freya, no longer an omnipotent goddess, but a frightened wife, trembled before his wrath, and begged the dwarfs to help her.
But the dwarfs loved Freya, and from them he got no answer.
A magical golden standard and armour and swords that the dwarfs had made brought a smile of joy into the dying King's eyes.
Dwarfs there were, men of the woods that lived like trees and carried, instead of mouths and stomachs, little clusters of roots sprouting from below the face to the end that they might suck their nourishment from the bosom of mother earth.
There came also the dwarfs of flesh and bone, little fellows with lizards' tails and the heads of toads, and a lantern on their head for head-gear.
The Trows, or Drows, the fairy dwarfs he studied on the spot, and connects the name with Dwerg, though Trolls seem rather to be their spiritual and linguistic ancestors.
At length Odin spoke to the two dwarfs by name whom he had seen drowning the wise man.
At the end of two days Skirnir re-entered the audience-hall, and then the chief of the dwarfs put into his hand a slender chain.
Then the dwarfs whispered together and consulted, they all talked at once, and every one of them said a different thing, for they were in fact a little intoxicated still by the sips they had taken of Odhaerir.
Then the dwarfs stopped their rejoicing as if a spell had fallen upon them, dropping their weapons, huddling close to one another, cowering, whispering.
The dwarfs sold it for their lives, the giantess lost it of her love, gods win it for the world.
Accordingly, she walked on to where the four dwarfs were sitting, and peeped over their shoulders.
Why the dwarfs should be able to make a chain strong enough to bind him, which the gods had failed to do, is a puzzle.
There are dwarfs and elves, who live amongst them, and play tricks which they cannot understand, and do not know how to prevent.
But there were others in those converging rays who stared and said doubtfully, "Sure, yonder are Birbal's daughter's two dwarfs that all know!
Certain it is that as the dwarfs strutted forward, leading and following the central figure these round plaques shot out a dazzling brilliance, and for, an instant seemed to cloud all else.
The dwarfs of the mountain, each with a torch in his hand, came to salute their lord, the King of the Mines.
Certes, I am dreadfully afraid of the hairy and clawy dwarfs with their purses full of false coin dangling from their belts and their blacksmith's hammers on their shoulders.
What dangerous demons those Dus must be, dwarfs no taller than barely two feet high!
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