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... tell us that every book is entertaining there's no believing them . Besides , they are al- - ways so long . " 66 This is short , at any rate , " -says the little girl , peeping at the pages over her mother's shoulder . at " Well ! what ...
... tell us that every book is entertaining there's no believing them . Besides , they are al- - ways so long . " 66 This is short , at any rate , " -says the little girl , peeping at the pages over her mother's shoulder . at " Well ! what ...
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... tell that . " " " says the little " Prefaces never tell the thing one wants to know , " says the boy . " But mamma will look over the plays for us , ' girl , " and see which will do for our acting . " " I should like to look them over ...
... tell that . " " " says the little " Prefaces never tell the thing one wants to know , " says the boy . " But mamma will look over the plays for us , ' girl , " and see which will do for our acting . " " I should like to look them over ...
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... tell you that story I promised you . LILLY . Oh , do tell us a story , Sara . [ Puts doll on chair . JESSIE . Oh , yes , do . CHILDREN . Oh ! SARA . I may not have time to finish it before the company comes but I'll tell you the end ...
... tell you that story I promised you . LILLY . Oh , do tell us a story , Sara . [ Puts doll on chair . JESSIE . Oh , yes , do . CHILDREN . Oh ! SARA . I may not have time to finish it before the company comes but I'll tell you the end ...
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... tell a story by firelight . [ Turns out brackets with switch above fireplace ; gets on sofa for story . All the children sit , except Lavinia , who stands near the piano . Children on the floor in front of the sofa . Ermen- garde goes ...
... tell a story by firelight . [ Turns out brackets with switch above fireplace ; gets on sofa for story . All the children sit , except Lavinia , who stands near the piano . Children on the floor in front of the sofa . Ermen- garde goes ...
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... tell me a story , ' and it will tell you one . ' CHILDREN . Oh ! SARA . " And if you want to travel anywhere , just seat your- self in it , and say , ' Chair of my grandmother , take me where I want to go . ' 999 ERMENGARDE . Oh , I ...
... tell me a story , ' and it will tell you one . ' CHILDREN . Oh ! SARA . " And if you want to travel anywhere , just seat your- self in it , and say , ' Chair of my grandmother , take me where I want to go . ' 999 ERMENGARDE . Oh , I ...
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Page 416 - Four other Oysters followed them, And yet another four; And thick and fast they came at last, And more, and more, and more All hopping through the frothy waves, And scrambling to the shore.
Page 413 - Would you tell me, please, which way I ought to go from here?" "That depends a good deal on where you want to get to,
Page 417 - It seems a shame,' the Walrus said, 'To play them such a trick. After we've brought them out so far, And made them trot so quick!' The Carpenter said nothing but 'The butter's spread too thick!' 'I weep for you,' the Walrus said: 'I deeply sympathize.
Page 424 - I — I hardly know, sir, just at present — at least I know who I was when I got up this morning, but I think I must have been changed several times since then.
Page 421 - Ah, well! It means much the same thing," said the Duchess, digging her sharp little chin into Alice's shoulder as she added, "and the moral of that is — " Take care of the sense, and the sounds will take care of themselves.
Page 391 - Twas brillig, and the slithy toves Did gyre and gimble in the wabe; All mimsy were the borogoves, And the mome raths outgra.be. "Beware the Jabberwock, my son! The jaws that bite, the claws that catch! Beware the Jubjub bird and shun The frumious Bandersnatch!
Page 402 - ... he's treading on my tail. See how eagerly the lobsters and the turtles all advance! They are waiting on the shingle— will you come and join the dance? Will you, won't you, will you, won't you, will you join the dance? Will you, won't you, will you, won't you, won't you join the dance? 'You can really have no notion how delightful it will be When they take us up and throw us, with the lobsters, out to sea!' But the snail replied 'Too far, too far!
Page 397 - When I use a word ... it means just what I choose it to mean - neither more nor less.
Page 406 - ... might just as well say that 'I see what I eat' is the same thing as 'I eat what I see'!" "You might just as well say...
Page 392 - Alice, still panting a little, "you'd generally get to somewhere else — if you ran very fast for a long time as we've been doing." "A slow sort of country!" said the Queen. "Now, here, you see, it takes all the running you can do, to keep in the same place. If you want to get somewhere else, you must run at least twice as fast as that!