"A likely story indeed!" said the Pigeon, in a tone of the deepest contempt. "I've seen a good many little girls in my time, but n...ever one with such a neck as that! No, no! You're a serpent; and there's no use denying it. I suppose you'll be telling me next that you never tasted an egg!" "I have tasted eggs, certainly," said Alice, who was a very truthful child; "but little girls eat eggs quite as much as serpents do, you know." "I don't believe it," said the Pigeon; "but if they do, then they're a kind of serpent: that's all I can say."LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
All in the golden afternoon Full leisurely we glide;... For both our oars, with little skill, By little arms are plied, While little hands make vain pretense Our wanderings to guide.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
"I couldn't afford to learn it," said the Mock Turtle with a sigh. "I only took the regular course." "What was that?" inquire...d Alice. "Reeling and Writhing, of course, to begin with," the Mock Turtle replied; "and then the different branches of Arithmetic--Ambition, Distraction, Uglification, and Derision." "I never heard of 'Uglification,'" Alice ventured to say.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
"Come, there's no use in crying like that!" said Alice to herself rather sharply. "I advise you to leave off this minute!" She gen...erally gave herself good advice (though she very seldom followed it).LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
"Well!" thought Alice to herself. "After such a fall as this, I shall think nothing of tumbling down-stairs! How brave they'll all... think me at home! Why, I wouldn't say anything about it, even if I fell off the top of the house!" (Which was very likely true.)LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
"Will you walk a little faster?" said a whiting to a snail, "There's a porpoise close behind us, and he's treading on my ...>tail.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Alice felt dreadfully puzzled. The Hatter's remark seemed to her to have no sort of meaning in it, and yet it was certainly Englis...h. "I don't quite understand you," she said, as politely as she could.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »