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One winter day, snowflakes drifted from the sky like feathers. A queen sat sewing beside a window with a frame of black ebony wood. As she watched the snow, she pricked her finger with her needle, and three drops of blood fell onto the snow.
English · Intermediate
Snow White
A young princess finds refuge with seven dwarfs while a jealous queen seeks to harm her.
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Snow-white is born
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The red looked so beautiful against the white that she thought, “If only I had a child with skin as white as snow, cheeks as red as blood, and hair as black as this window frame.”
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Soon afterward, she gave birth to a little daughter with snow-white skin, red cheeks, and hair as black as ebony. Because of this, the child was called Little Snow-white. The queen died when her daughter was born.
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