Through the Looking-Glass - Lewis Carroll

among the waving rushes. And then the little sleeves were carefully rolled up, and the little ...

—for the oars, and the boat, and the river, had vanished all in a moment, and she was back again in the litt ...

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CHAPTER VI. Humpty Dumpty However, the egg only got larger and larger, and more and more human: when she had com ...

‘It’s a stupid enough name!’ Humpty Dumpty interrupted impatiently. ‘What does it mean?’ ‘Must a name mea ...

‘In that case we start fresh,’ said Humpty Dumpty, ‘and it’s my turn to choose a subject—’ (‘He ...

subject, after all. ‘They gave it me,’ Humpty Dumpty continued thoughtfully, as he crossed one knee ove ...

Humpty Dumpty smiled contemptuously. ‘Of course you don’t—till I tell you. I meant “there’s a nice knock-d ...

‘That’s enough to begin with,’ Humpty Dumpty interrupted: ‘there are plenty of hard words there. “Brillig” ...

‘As to poetry, you know,’ said Humpty Dumpty, stretching out one of his great hands, ‘I can rep ...

My heart went hop, my heart went thump; I filled the kettle at the pump. ...

‘It wouldn’t look nice,’ Alice objected. But Humpty Dumpty only shut his eyes and said ‘Wait til ...

CHAPTER VII. The Lion and the Unicorn The next moment soldiers came running through the wood, at first in ...

‘Not at all,’ said the King. ‘He’s an Anglo-Saxon Messenger—and those are Anglo-Saxon attitudes. He only ...

‘Who did you pass on the road?’ the King went on, holding out his hand to the Messenger for some more ...

were fighting. They were in such a cloud of dust, that at first Alice could not make out whi ...

‘But aren’t you going to run and help her?’ Alice asked, very much surprised at his taking it so quietl ...

The Lion had joined them while this was going on: he looked very tired and sleepy, and his eyes ...

said the Lion, as she returned to her place with the empty dish. ‘I say, this isn’t fair!’ cried t ...

CHAPTER VIII. ‘It’s my own Invention’ After a while the noise seemed gradually to die away, till all was ...