Am I not dearer to you than any of them?" the little mermaid's eyes seemed to say when he took her in his arms and kissed her beautiful brow.

Like all the other mermaids, she had no feet and instead of legs she had a fish's tail.

The king's mother was fond of the little mermaid princesses, her grandchildren.

The fisherman caught a mermaid.

Are mermaids real?

At last she came. The little mermaid stood eager to see her beauty, and she was obliged to confess that a lovelier creature she had never beheld.

I saw one, a mermaid, when I was a primary schooler. But it wasn't that sort of fairy-tale atmosphere of a story.

Alas! he does not know that it was I who saved his life," thought the little mermaid.

But if you take my voice," said the little mermaid, "what have I left?" "Your beautiful form," said the witch, "your gliding gait, and your speaking eyes; with these you ought surely to be able to bewitch a human heart."

But it hurts so!" said the little mermaid. "You must endure the pain for the sake of the finery!" said her grandmother.