← then, saying to herself ‘This is Bill,’ she gave one sharp kick, and waited to see what would happen next. 🔊
← and while she was peering about anxiously among the trees, a little sharp bark just over her head made her look up in a great hurry. 🔊
← She had just succeeded in curving it down into a graceful zigzag, and was going to dive in among the leaves, which she found to be nothing but the tops of the trees under which she had been wandering, when a sharp hiss made her draw back in a hurry: 🔊
← first, because the Duchess was very ugly; and secondly, because she was exactly the right height to rest her chin upon Alice’s shoulder, and it was an uncomfortably sharp chin. 🔊
← ‘Ah, well! It means much the same thing,’ said the Duchess, digging her sharp little chin into Alice’s shoulder as she added, ‘and the moral of that is--“Take care of the sense, and the sounds will take care of themselves.”’ 🔊
← ‘Thinking again?’ the Duchess asked, with another dig of her sharp little chin. 🔊