It was the middle of winter, and the snowflakesnoun.雪花 were falling like feathers from the sky. And the queen sat at her window workingnoun.工作, and her embroiderynoun.刺绣品 frame was of ebony. And as she worked, gazingverb.盯 at times out on the snow, she prickedverb.刺 her finger, and there fell from it three drops of blood on the snow.
And when she saw how bright and red it looked, she said to herself, "Oh, that I had a child as white as snow, as red as blood, and as black as the embroiderynoun.刺绣品 frame." Not very long after, she had a daughter, with her skin as white as snow, lips as red as blood, and hair as black as ebony.
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