← for, you see, as she couldn’t answer either question, it didn’t much matter which way she put it. 🔊
← She drew her foot as far down the chimney as she could, and waited till she heard a little animal (she couldn’t guess of what sort it was) scratching and scrambling about in the chimney close above her: 🔊
← ‘They couldn’t have done that, you know,’ Alice gently remarked; ‘they’d have been ill.’ 🔊
← ‘I couldn’t help it,’ said Five, in a sulky tone; ‘Seven jogged my elbow.’ 🔊
← ‘and besides, what would be the use of a procession,’ thought she, ‘if people had all to lie down upon their faces, so that they couldn’t see it?’ 🔊
← The executioner’s argument was, that you couldn’t cut off a head unless there was a body to cut it off from: 🔊
← ‘You couldn’t have wanted it much,’ said Alice; ‘living at the bottom of the sea.’ 🔊
← ‘I couldn’t afford to learn it.’ said the Mock Turtle with a sigh. ‘I only took the regular course.’ 🔊