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Note: Page numbers at each end of samples show the page numbers in Annotated 'Alice'(Penguin Books).
1. "...., I turned cold to the end of my whiskers!" .... "You haven't got any whiskers." (p 189)
2. "It says 'Bough-wough!'" (p. 202)
3. "They make the beds too soft - so that the flowers are always asleep" (p. 203)
4. ....,that she had lost her way. "I don't know what you mean by your way," (p. 206)
5. "something about 'horse' and 'hoarse,' you know." (p. 219)
6. "She must be labeled 'Lass, with care,' you know -" (p. 219)
7. "she must go by post, as she's got a head on her -" (p. 219)
8. "something about 'you would if you could,' you know" (p. 220)
9. "What sort of insect do you rejoice in, ...." .... "I don't rejoice in insects at all," (p. 221)
10. "Well, there's the Horse-fly," .... "you may observe a Bread-and-butter-fly...." (pp. 222-223)
11. "Well, if she said 'Miss,' ...." .... "of course, you'd miss your lessons...." (p. 224)
12. ..., feeling sure that they must be Tweedledum and Tweedledee (pp. 228-229)
13. "Am I addressing the White Queen?" "Well, yes, if you call that a-dressing" (p. 245)
14. "It's jam every other day: to-day isn't any other day, you know" (p. 247)
15. "I'm seven and a half, exactly." "You needn't say 'exactually,' " (p. 251)
16. "Much be-etter! Be-etter! Be-e-e-etter! Be-e-ehh!" (p. 252)
17. "I don't quite know yet," .... "....umless you've got eyes at the back of your head." (pp. 252-253)
18. "Feather!" cried the Sheep, (p. 254)
19. "You'll be catching a crab directly." (p. 254)
20. .... "you're a little goose." (p. 255)
21. "Oh, please! ...." .... "You needn't say 'please' to me about 'em," (p. 256)
22. ".... How old did you say you were?" .... "You never said a word like it!" (p. 265)
23. "One can't, perhaps," said Humpty Dumpty; "but two can. ...." (p. 266)
24. "they gave it to me -- for an un-birthday present." (p. 267)
25. "I beg your pardon?" .... "I'm not offended," said Humpty Dumpty. (p. 267)
26. "Of all the unsatisfactory -" (p. 276)
27. "I only wish I had such eyes," .... "To be able to see Nobody! ...." (p. 279)
28. ".... Haigha." (He pronounced it so as to rhyme with 'mayor.') (p. 279)
29. "I love my love with an H," .... "He lives on the Hill." (pp. 279-280)
30. "I beg your pardon?" said Alice. "It isn't respectable to beg," said the King. (p. 280)
31. "There's nothing like eating hay ...." .... "I said there was nothing like it." (p. 281)
32. "Nobody," said the Mesenger. .... "or else he'd have been here first. ...." (p. 282)
33. "to stop a minute...." .... ".... You might try to stop a Bandersnatch!" (p. 283)
34. "Do you spell 'creature' with a double 'e'?" (p. 286)
35. "We only found it to-day. It's as large as life, and twice as natural!" (p.287)
36. "You see the wind is so very strong here. It's as strong as soup." (p. 299)
37. ".... It was as fast as - as lightning, you know." (p. 303)
38. "I'm sure I didn't mean -" .... ".... You should have meant! ...." (p. 319)
39. ".... even if you tried with both hands." "I don't deny things with my hands," (p. 319)
40. "the dog's temper would remain." .... "...., its temper would remain!" (p 321)
41. "You take some flour -" "Where do you pick the flower?" (p. 322)
42. "It's ground -" "How many acres of ground?" (p. 322)
43. "Fiddle-de-dee's not English" (p. 323)
44. "Where's the servant whose business it is to answer the door?" .... ".... What did it ask you?" (p. 328)
45. A boat, beneath a sunny sky .... Life, what is it but a dream? (p. 345)
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