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The fall became a roll, and down a steep declivity I went, over and over, arriving at the bottom uninjured. Another flash soon showed me where I was-in the hollow valley, within a couple of hundred yards from nurse's cottage. I made my way towards it. There was no light in it, except the feeblest glow from the embers of her peat fire.
George MacDonald - The Portent & Other Stories

He could do that quite well, for all the Turks were dressed just as he was-in a dressing-gown and slippers. He met a nurse with a little child. 'Halloa! you Turkish nurse, said he, 'what is that great castle there close to the town? The one with the windows so high up? 'The sultan's daughter lives there, she replied.
Andrew Lang - The Pink Fairy Book
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