← ‘Speak English!’ said the Eaglet. ‘I don’t know the meaning of half those long words, and, what’s more, I don’t believe you do either!’ 🔊
← whereupon the puppy jumped into the air off all its feet at once, with a yelp of delight, and rushed at the stick, and made believe to worry it; 🔊
← ‘I don’t believe it,’ said the Pigeon; ‘but if they do, why then they’re a kind of serpent, that’s all I can say.’ 🔊
← ‘I’m glad they’ve begun asking riddles.--I believe I can guess that,’ she added aloud. 🔊
← Don’t be all day about it!’ and he went on in these words: ‘Yes, we went to school in the sea, though you mayn’t believe it--’ 🔊
← ‘I believe so,’ Alice replied thoughtfully. ‘They have their tails in their mouths--and they’re all over crumbs.’ 🔊
← Alice looked down at them, and considered a little before she gave her answer. ‘They’re done with blacking, I believe.’ 🔊
← I don’t believe there’s an atom of meaning in it.’ 🔊
← The jury all wrote down on their slates, ‘She doesn’t believe there’s an atom of meaning in it,’ but none of them attempted to explain the paper. 🔊
← So she sat on, with closed eyes, and half believed herself in Wonderland, though she knew she had but to open them again, and all would change to dull reality-- 🔊