The Oxford Dictionary of Quotations Preface

choose it to mean—neither more nor less.’
‘Through the Looking-Glass’ (1872) ch. 6
You see it’s like a portmanteau—there are two meanings packed up into one word.
‘Through the Looking-Glass’ (1872) ch. 6
‘I can repeat poetry as well as other folk if it comes to that—’ ‘Oh, it needn’t come to that!’
Alice hastily said.
‘Through the Looking-Glass’ (1872) ch. 6
The little fishes of the sea,
They sent an answer back to me.
The little fishes’ answer was
‘We cannot do it, Sir, because—’
‘Through the Looking-Glass’ (1872) ch. 6
He’s an Anglo-Saxon Messenger—and those are Anglo-Saxon attitudes.
‘Through the Looking-Glass’ (1872) ch. 7
The other Messenger’s called Hatta. I must have two you know—to come and go. One to
come, and one to go.
‘Through the Looking-Glass’ (1872) ch. 7
‘There’s nothing like eating hay when you’re faint.’...’I didn’t say there was nothing better,’
the King replied, ‘I said there was nothing like it.’
‘Through the Looking-Glass’ (1872) ch. 7
‘I’m sure nobody walks much faster than I do!’ ‘He can’t do that,’ said the King, ‘or else he’d
have been here first.’
‘Through the Looking-Glass’ (1872) ch. 7
It’s as large as life, and twice as natural!
‘Through the Looking-Glass’ (1872) ch. 7
I’ll tell thee everything I can:
There’s little to relate.
I saw an aged, aged man,
A-sitting on a gate.
‘Through the Looking-Glass’ (1872) ch. 8
He said, ‘I look for butterflies
That sleep among the wheat:
I make them into mutton-pies,
And sell them in the street.’
‘Through the Looking-Glass’ (1872) ch. 8
Or madly squeeze a right-hand foot
Into a left-hand shoe.
‘Through the Looking-Glass’ (1872) ch. 8
No admittance till the week after next!
‘Through the Looking-Glass’ (1872) ch. 9