← So she began again: ‘Où est ma chatte?’ which was the first sentence in her French lesson-book. 🔊
← He looked anxiously over his shoulder as he spoke, and then raised himself upon tiptoe, put his mouth close to her ear, and whispered ‘She’s under sentence of execution.’ 🔊
← She had already heard her sentence three of the players to be executed for having missed their turns, and she did not like the look of things at all, 🔊
← Those whom she sentenced were taken into custody by the soldiers, who of course had to leave off being arches to do this, so that by the end of half an hour or so there were no arches left, 🔊
← and all the players, except the King, the Queen, and Alice, were in custody and under sentence of execution. 🔊
← ‘No, no!’ said the Queen. ‘Sentence first--verdict afterwards.’ 🔊
← ‘Stuff and nonsense!’ said Alice loudly. ‘The idea of having the sentence first!’ 🔊