Crossword-Solution: THUMBELINA
We have 5 clues for the answer “THUMBELINA”
| Clue | Answers |
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| CHILDHOOD story | 1 answer |
| Fairy tale character who sleeps in a walnut shell | 1 answer |
| Song from "Hans Christian Andersen" | 1 answer |
| Tiny girl in an Andersen tale | 1 answer |
| ANDERSEN (Hans Christian), story by | 2 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
ETRAE
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with THUMBELINA (5)
THUMBELINA There was once a woman who wanted to have quite a tiny, little child, but she did not know where to get one from.
There she lay at night, but in the day-time she used to play about on the table; here the woman had put a bowl, surrounded by a ring of flowers, with their stalks in water, in the middle of which floated a great tulip pedal, and on this Thumbelina sat, and sailed from one side of the bowl to the other, rowing herself with two white horse-hairs for oars.
She was very ugly, clumsy, and clammy; she hopped on to the table where Thumbelina lay asleep under the red rose-leaf.
The leaf farthest away was the largest, and to this the old toad swam with Thumbelina in her walnut-shell.
The tiny Thumbelina woke up very early in the morning, and when she saw where she was she began to cry bitterly; for on every side of the great green leaf was water, and she could not get to the land.
Quotes with THUMBELINA (1)
He says that woman speaks with nature. That she hears voices from under the earth. That wind blows in her ears and trees whisper to her. That the dead sing through her mouth and the cries of infants are clear to her. But for him this dialogue is over. He says he is not part of this world, that he was set on this world as a stranger. He sets himself apart from woman and nature. And so it is Goldilocks who goes to the home of the three bears, Little Red Riding Hood who converse…
Where this answer appears
Appears in: CrosSynergy, LAT, Newsday.
Used 3 times in crossword archives (1996–2019).