Definitions
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- proper noun A popular
fairy tale about a thumb-sized girl. - proper noun The main
character in this story.
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Examples
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Handler Michael Goessling, son of miniature horse farmers Kay and Paul Goessling, says Thumbelina is the ideal child advocate.
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For instance, only because I had a baby did I have cause to re-experience the story of Thumbelina, which affected me so dramatically — once Thumbelina is kidnapped by the Toad’s Mother you never hear about Thumbelina’s mother ever again — that I wrote a series of four sonnets in the voice of Thumbelina’s mother (two of which are included in the Fall 2008 issue of 32 Poems journal).
babies, parents, and poetry : Jeffrey McDaniel : Harriet the Blog : The Poetry Foundation 2007
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'You shall not be called Thumbelina!' said the spirit of the flower to her; 'that is an ugly name, and you are much too pretty for that.
The Yellow Fairy Book Andrew Lang 1900
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` You shall not be called Thumbelina! 'said the spirit of the flower to her; ` that is an ugly name, and you are much too pretty for that.
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Santa tells the kids they've got to believe in their dreams and never give up, which prompts him to launch into the story of Thumbelina, which is clearly a whole other movie - a featurette filmed at the now-defunct
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'You shall not be called Thumbelina!' said the spirit of the flower to her; 'that is an ugly name, and you are much too pretty for that.
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'You shall not be called Thumbelina!' said the spirit of the flower to her; 'that is an ugly name, and you are much too pretty for that.
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If you are a small girl in a low-income suburb of Richmond, Virginia, as Sissy was, and the other kids jeer at your hands, and your own brothers call you by your neighborhood nickname - "Thumbelina" - and your own daddy sometimes makes jokes about your being -all thumbs, " then you toughen up or shatter.
Even Cowgirls Get The Blues Robbins, Tom 1976
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It was installed in 1913 as a tribute to the Danish author who created this and other fairy-tale characters, including "Thumbelina" and "The Ugly Duckling."
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I have to agree Troll was awful, I couldnt get past the first ten minutes, and I've never seen "Thumbelina", and I don't think I'm gonna.
Morris Sullivan, RIP Steve Hulett 2008
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