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title: The Dragon's Teeth., part 1 — Tanglewood Tales · full text with trees · page 2
description: The Dragon's Teeth., part 1, «Tanglewood Tales» by Nathaniel Hawthorne: the whole chapter, every sentence with its dependency tree and pragmatics. It begins: Cadmus, Phoenix, and Cilix, the three sons of King Agenor, and their little sister Europa (who was a very beautiful child), were at play toget
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- [101](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg976/10/101/) — I cannot tell you how long Queen Telephassa, and Cadmus, Phoenix, and Cilix, her three sons, and Thasus, their playfellow, went wandering along the highways and bypaths, or through the pathless wildernesses of the earth, in this manner.
- [102](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg976/10/102/) — But certain it is, that, before they reached any place of rest, their splendid garments were quite worn out.
- [103](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg976/10/103/) — They all looked very much travel-stained, and would have had the dust of many countries on their shoes, if the streams, through which they waded, had not washed it all away.
- [104](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg976/10/104/) — When they had been gone a year, Telephassa threw away her crown, because it chafed her forehead.
- [105](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg976/10/105/) — "It has given me many a headache," said the poor queen, "and it cannot cure my heartache."
- [106](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg976/10/106/) — As fast as their princely robes got torn and tattered, they exchanged them for such mean attire as ordinary people wore.
- [107](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg976/10/107/) — By and by, they come to have a wild and homeless aspect; so that you would much sooner have taken them for a gypsy family than a queen and three princes, and a young nobleman, who had once a palace for a home, and a train of servants to do their bidding.
- [108](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg976/10/108/) — The four boys grew up to be tall young men, with sunburnt faces.
- [109](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg976/10/109/) — Each of them girded on a sword, to defend themselves against the perils of the way.
- [110](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg976/10/110/) — When the husbandmen, at whose farmhouses they sought hospitality, needed their assistance in the harvest field, they gave it willingly; and Queen Telephassa (who had done no work in her palace, save to braid silk threads with golden ones) came behind them to bind the sheaves.
- [111](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg976/10/111/) — If payment was offered, they shook their heads, and only asked for tidings of Europa.

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