← ‘Mine is a long and a sad tale!’ said the Mouse, turning to Alice, and sighing. 🔊
← ‘What a pity it wouldn’t stay!’ sighed the Lory, as soon as it was quite out of sight; 🔊
← ‘Yes, that’s it,’ said the Hatter with a sigh: ‘it’s always tea-time, and we’ve no time to wash the things between whiles.’ 🔊
← They had not gone far before they saw the Mock Turtle in the distance, sitting sad and lonely on a little ledge of rock, and, as they came nearer, Alice could hear him sighing as if his heart would break. 🔊
← ‘Once,’ said the Mock Turtle at last, with a deep sigh, ‘I was a real Turtle.’ 🔊
← ‘I couldn’t afford to learn it.’ said the Mock Turtle with a sigh. ‘I only took the regular course.’ 🔊
← ‘I never went to him,’ the Mock Turtle said with a sigh: ‘he taught Laughing and Grief, they used to say.’ 🔊
← ‘So he did, so he did,’ said the Gryphon, sighing in his turn; and both creatures hid their faces in their paws. 🔊
← The Mock Turtle sighed deeply, and drew the back of one flapper across his eyes. 🔊
← The Mock Turtle sighed deeply, and began, in a voice sometimes choked with sobs, to sing this:-- 🔊