← when suddenly, thump! thump! down she came upon a heap of sticks and dry leaves, and the fall was over. 🔊
← After a time she heard a little pattering of feet in the distance, and she hastily dried her eyes to see what was coming. 🔊
← The first question of course was, how to get dry again: 🔊
← I’ll soon make you dry enough!’ They all sat down at once, in a large ring, with the Mouse in the middle. 🔊
← Alice kept her eyes anxiously fixed on it, for she felt sure she would catch a bad cold if she did not get dry very soon. 🔊
← This is the driest thing I know. Silence all round, if you please! 🔊
← ‘As wet as ever,’ said Alice in a melancholy tone: ‘it doesn’t seem to dry me at all.’ 🔊
← ‘What I was going to say,’ said the Dodo in an offended tone, ‘was, that the best thing to get us dry would be a Caucus-race.’ 🔊
← However, when they had been running half an hour or so, and were quite dry again, the Dodo suddenly called out ‘The race is over!’ and they all crowded round it, panting, and asking, ‘But who has won?’ 🔊
← When the sands are all dry, he is gay as a lark, And will talk in contemptuous tones of the Shark, 🔊