← There was no ‘One, two, three, and away,’ but they began running when they liked, and left off when they liked, so that it was not easy to know when the race was over. 🔊
← For a minute or two she stood looking at the house, and wondering what to do next, 🔊
← so that altogether, for the first minute or two, it was as much as she could do to hold it. 🔊
← ‘If I don’t take this child away with me,’ thought Alice, ‘they’re sure to kill it in a day or two: wouldn’t it be murder to leave it behind?’ 🔊
← and after a minute or two she walked on in the direction in which the March Hare was said to live. 🔊
← The Dormouse again took a minute or two to think about it, and then said, ‘It was a treacle-well.’ 🔊
← however, they got settled down in a minute or two, and the game began. 🔊
← it puzzled her very much at first, but, after watching it a minute or two, she made it out to be a grin, and she said to herself ‘It’s the Cheshire Cat: now I shall have somebody to talk to.’ 🔊
← ‘I’m not a mile high,’ said Alice. ‘You are,’ said the King. ‘Nearly two miles high,’ added the Queen. 🔊
← “I gave her one, they gave him two--” why, that must be what he did with the tarts, you know--’ 🔊