Sentences with phrase «man on the crane»

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«Glory to God in the highest, and on earth peace, good will among men, and that is just what they did except there were so many of them that there was a fair amount of crowding and jockeying for position, with the result that one particular angel, a girl about nine years old who was smaller than most of them, ended up so far out on the fringes of things that not even by craning her neck and standing on tiptoe could she see what was going on.

A magical novel, based on a Japanese folk tale, that imagines how the life of a broken - hearted man is transformed when he rescues an injured white crane that has landed in his backyard.