“Sultan and company were all overthrown,
Hacked into pieces, stabbed where they were sitting…
The ancient Sultaness, helped by her friends,
did all as she had planned,
Being resolved herself to rule the land.”
The Man of Law’s Tale, The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer
‘It was getting so dark so suddenly that Alice thought there must be a thunderstorm coming on. “What a thick black cloud that is!” she said, “And how fast it comes! Why, I do believe it’s got wings!”
“It’s the crow!” Tweedledum cried out in a shrill voice of alarm; and the two brothers took to their heels and were out of sight in a moment.
Alice ran a little way into the wood, and stopped under a large tree. “It can never get me here,” she thought’
Tweedledum and Tweedledee, Through the Looking-Glass by Lewis Carroll
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“And in the garden at the sun’s uprising
Hither and thither at her own devising,
She wandered gathering flowers, white and red,
To make a subtle garland for her head,
And like an angel sang a heavenly song.”
The Knights Tale, The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer
“I didn’t know Cheshire cats always grinned; I’m fact, I didn’t know that cats could grin.”
“They all can, “ said the Duchess; “and most of ‘‘em do.”
“I don’t know any that do,” Alice said very politely, feeling quite pleased to have got into a conversation.
“You don’t know much,” said the Duchess; “and that’s a fact.”’
Pig and Pepper, Alice in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll
“Peter could see no one , for Heidi was seated on the ground at the foot of a small hill thickly overgrown with sweet-smelling prunella. The whole air seemed filled with its fragrance, and Heidi thought she had never smelled anything so delicious. She sat surrounded by the flowers, drawing in deep breaths of the scented air.”
Out with the Goats, Heidi by Johanna Spyri
“As he offered to advance, she exclaimed, ‘Remain where thou art, proud Templar, or at thy choice advance!-one foot nearer, and I plunge myself from the precipice; my body shall be crushed out of the very form of humanity upon the stones of that court-yard, ere it become the victim of thy brutality!’
As she spoke this, she clasped her hands and extended them towards heaven, as if imploring mercy on her soul before she made the final plunge.”
Chapter XXIV, Ivanhoe by Sir Walter Scott
‘“By-the-by, what became of the baby?” said the Cat. “I’d nearly forgotten to ask.”
“It turned into a pig,” Alice answered very quietly,
“I thought it would,” said the Cat, and vanished again.’
Pig and Pepper, Alice in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll
“But instead of sinking into the waves, she felt herself rising into the sky. Then she saw hundreds of beautiful spirits floating in the sky.”
The Little Mermaid
“So the boat was left to drift down the stream as it would, till it glided gently in among the waving rushes… she managed to pick plenty of beautiful rushes as the boat glided by, but there was always a more lovely one that she couldn’t reach.”
Wool and Water, Through the Looking-Glass by Lewis Carroll
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