← but, alas! either the locks were too large, or the key was too small, but at any rate it would not open any of them. 🔊
← There seemed to be no use in waiting by the little door, so she went back to the table, half hoping she might find another key on it, or at any rate a book of rules for shutting people up like telescopes: 🔊
← Let me see: four times five is twelve, and four times six is thirteen, and four times seven is--oh dear! I shall never get to twenty at that rate! 🔊
← Everything is so out-of-the-way down here, that I should think very likely it can talk: at any rate, there’s no harm in trying.’ 🔊
← ‘Well, it’s got no business there, at any rate: go and take it away!’ 🔊
← But at any rate he might answer questions.--How am I to get in?’ she repeated, aloud. 🔊
← ‘At any rate I’ll never go there again!’ said Alice as she picked her way through the wood. ‘It’s the stupidest tea-party I ever was at in all my life!’ 🔊
← ‘Well, at any rate, the Dormouse said--’ the Hatter went on, looking anxiously round to see if he would deny it too: 🔊
← ‘Well, I shan’t go, at any rate,’ said Alice: ‘besides, that’s not a regular rule: you invented it just now.’ 🔊