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before she had drunk half the bottle, she found her head pressing against the ceiling, and had to stoop to save her neck from being broken. 🔊

She did not get hold of anything, but she heard a little shriek and a fall, and a crash of broken glass, from which she concluded that it was just possible it had fallen into a cucumber-frame, or something of the sort. 🔊

Here! Come and help me out of this!’ (Sounds of more broken glass.) 🔊

This time there were two little shrieks, and more sounds of broken glass. 🔊

a constant howling and sneezing, and every now and then a great crash, as if a dish or kettle had been broken to pieces. 🔊

it just grazed his nose, and broke to pieces against one of the trees behind him. 🔊

The Hatter was the first to break the silence. ‘What day of the month is it?’ he said, turning to Alice: 🔊

They had not gone far before they saw the Mock Turtle in the distance, sitting sad and lonely on a little ledge of rock, and, as they came nearer, Alice could hear him sighing as if his heart would break. 🔊

These words were followed by a very long silence, broken only by an occasional exclamation ofHjckrrh!’ from the Gryphon, and the constant heavy sobbing of the Mock Turtle. 🔊

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