← ‘Serpent, I say again!’ repeated the Pigeon, but in a more subdued tone, and added with a kind of sob, ‘I’ve tried every way, and nothing seems to suit them!’ 🔊
← ‘But perhaps it was only sobbing,’ she thought, and looked into its eyes again, to see if there were any tears. 🔊
← The poor little thing sobbed again (or grunted, it was impossible to say which), and they went on for some while in silence. 🔊
← These words were followed by a very long silence, broken only by an occasional exclamation of ‘Hjckrrh!’ from the Gryphon, and the constant heavy sobbing of the Mock Turtle. 🔊
← ‘When we were little,’ the Mock Turtle went on at last, more calmly, though still sobbing a little now and then, ‘we went to school in the sea. 🔊
← He looked at Alice, and tried to speak, but for a minute or two sobs choked his voice. 🔊
← The Mock Turtle sighed deeply, and began, in a voice sometimes choked with sobs, to sing this:-- 🔊
← once more the shriek of the Gryphon, the squeaking of the Lizard’s slate-pencil, and the choking of the suppressed guinea-pigs, filled the air, mixed up with the distant sobs of the miserable Mock Turtle. 🔊
← while the lowing of the cattle in the distance would take the place of the Mock Turtle’s heavy sobs. 🔊