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Take some more tea," the March Hare said to Alice, very earnestly.
"I've had nothing yet," Alice replied in an offended tone, "so I can't take more."
"You mean you can't take less," said the Hatter: "it's very easy to take more than nothing."
"Nobody asked your opinion," said Alice.
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Lewis Carroll (Alice in Wonderland)
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Yes, that's it! Said the Hatter with a sigh, it's always tea time.
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Lewis Carroll (Alice in Wonderland)
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It's always tea-time.
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Lewis Carroll (Alice in Wonderland)
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Are you here for a reason, Cheshire?
Why, yes, I would enjoy a cup of tea. I take mine with lots of cream, and no tea. Thank you.
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Marissa Meyer (Heartless)
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Well that was the silliest tea party I ever went to! I am never going back there again!
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Lewis Carroll (Alice in Wonderland)
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Mad Hatter: Would you like a little more tea?
Alice: Well, I haven't had any yet, so I can't very well take more.
March Hare: Ah, you mean you can't very well take less.
Mad Hatter: Yes. You can always take more than nothing.
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Lewis Carroll (Alice in Wonderland)
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Men embody adventure, women embody hearth and home, and that has been pretty much it.
Even as a child, I noticed that Dorothy in The Wizard of Oz spent her entire time trying to get back home to Kansas, and Alice in Wonderland dreamed her long adventure, then woke up just in time for tea.
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Gloria Steinem (My Life on the Road)
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Blood, sweat, and tea, sister! That's what it takes to achieve all great and terrible things.
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Emory R. Frie (Wonderland (Realms #1))
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Crawling at your feet,' said the Gnat (Alice drew her feet back in some alarm), `you may observe a Bread-and-Butterfly. Its wings are thin slices of Bread-and-butter, its body is a crust, and its head is a lump of sugar.'
And what does IT live on?'
Weak tea with cream in it.'
A new difficulty came into Alice's head. `Supposing it couldn't find any?' she suggested.
Then it would die, of course.'
But that must happen very often,' Alice remarked thoughtfully.
It always happens,' said the Gnat.
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Lewis Carroll (Through the Looking-Glass and What Alice Found There (Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, #2))
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Time For Tea.
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Tillie Cole (Sick Fux)
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Time is drowning,
Hearts are burning,
Heads are rolling,
Nothing can save you now,
Tick tock, tick tock;
Creatures talking,
Weak are rising,
White Queenβs nearing,
Nothing can save you now,
Tick tock, tick tock;
Cards are bleeding,
Crowns are sweating,
Tea is spilling,
Nothing can save you now,
Tick tock, tick tock;
Red Queen, hereβs your warning,
Wonderlandβs raging,
Alice is coming,
Highness, time is drowning,
And nothing can save you now,
Tick tock, tick tock, tick tockβ¦
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Emory R. Frie (Wonderland (Realms #1))
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Jack was the only person she knew with an imagination, at least a real one. The only tea parties heβd have were ones in Wonderland, or the Arctic, or in the darkest reaches of space. He was the only person who saw things for what they could be instead of just what they were. He saw what lived beyond the edges of the things your eyes took in. And though they eventually grew out of Wonderland Arctic space-people tea parties, that essential thing remained the same. Hazel fit with Jack.
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Anne Ursu (Breadcrumbs)
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I'm a poor man, your majesty," the Hatter began in a weak voice, "and I hadn't but just begun my tea, not more than a week or so, and what with the bread and butter so thin - and the twinkling of the tea-"
"The twinkling of what?" asked the King.
"It began with the tea," the Hatter said.
"Of course twinkling begins with a T!" said the King. "Do you take me for a dunce?
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Lewis Carroll (Aliceβs Adventures in Wonderland / Through the Looking-Glass)
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A Mad Tea-Party
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Lewis Carroll (Alice's Adventures in Wonderland)
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It's the stupidest tea party I ever was at in all my life!
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Lewis Carroll (Alice's Adventures in Wonderland)
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It began with the tea,' the Hatter replied.
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Lewis Carroll (Alice in Wonderland)
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Wake up, Alice dear!' said her sister; 'Why, what a long sleep you've had!' 'Oh, I've had such a curious dream!' said Alice, and she told her sister, as well as she could remember them, all these strange Adventures of hers that you have just been reading about; and when she had finished, her sister kissed her, and said, 'It was a curious dream, dear, certainly: but now run in to your tea; it's getting late.' So Alice got up and ran off, thinking while she ran, as well she might, what a wonderful dream it had been.
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Lewis Carroll (Alice's Adventures in Wonderland)
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Upon a ribbon made of stars
She glides quickly, travels far
To drink her tea
Beside the sea
On an ocean made of stars
Upon her boat so small and swift
A brilling princess was she
Soon to sleep
A dream so deep
Beside an ocean made of stars
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Melanie Karsak (Wonderland Academy (Wonderland Academy: Hearts and Stars #1))
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If she moved her head all the way up against the wall and tilted it to the left she could just see the edge of the moon through the bars. Just a silver sliver, almost close enough to eat. A sliver of cheese, a sliver of cake, a cup of tea to be polite. Someone had given her a cup of tea once, someone with blue-green eyes and long ears. Funny how she couldn't remember his face, though. All that part was hazy, her memory of him wrapped in smoke but for the eyes and ears. And the ears were long and furry.
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Christina Henry (Alice (The Chronicles of Alice, #1))
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A bottle that reads, "Drink me." A tea party, with a dormouse, a March Hare, and of course, one Mad Hatter. A red queen, with as much a fondness for tarts as for saying, "Off with their heads!" When we think of Alice and her adventures in wonderland, we often think of these amazing (and amusing) elements. Although today, your vision of Alice in Wonderland probably includes Johnny Depp and a certain visual aesthetic by Tim Burton, it's difficult not to think of the Alice stories without thinking about the food that appears within the pages of the story.
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Lewis Carroll (Alice's Adventures in Wonderland)
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No room! No room!" they cried out when they saw Alice coming. "There's plenty of room!" said Alice indignantly, and she sat down in a large arm-chair at one end of the table. "Have some wine," the March Hare said in an encouraging tone. Alice looked all round the table, but there was nothing on it but tea. "I don't see any wine," she remarked. "There isn't any," said the March Hare. "Then it wasn't very civil of you to offer it," said Alice angrily. "It wasn't very civil of you to sit down without being invited,
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Lewis Carroll (Alice in Wonderland: The Complete Collection (Illustrated Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Illustrated Through the Looking Glass, plus Alice's Adventures Under Ground and The Hunting of the Snark))
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These are dark times for the court of Wonderland. Our lives were once full of dancing, tea and tarts, fashion and feasting. Now, life is a hardship we can hardly bear.
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Colleen Oakes (War of the Cards (Queen of Hearts Saga, #3))
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Twinkle twinkle, little bat
How I wonder what you're at?
Up above the world you fly
Like a tea tray in the sky.
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Lewis Carroll
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Maybe, just maybe, things would work out here.
If the tea didn't kill me first.
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Melanie Karsak (Wonderland Academy (Wonderland Academy: Hearts and Stars #1))
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Come, that finished the guinea-pigs!' thought Alice. 'Now we shall get on better.' 'I'd rather finish my tea,' said the Hatter, with an anxious look at the Queen, who was reading the list of singers.
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Lewis Carroll (Alice's Adventures in Wonderland)
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There was a table set out under a tree in front of the house, and the March Hare and the Hatter were having tea at it: a Dormouse was sitting between them, fast asleep, and the other two were using it as a cushion, resting their elbows on it, and talking over its head. 'Very uncomfortable for the Dormouse,' thought Alice; 'only, as it's asleep, I suppose it doesn't mind.' The table was a large one, but the three were all crowded together at one corner of it: 'No room! No room!' they cried out when they saw Alice coming. 'There's plenty of room!' said Alice indignantly, and she sat down in a large arm-chair at one end of the table. 'Have some wine,' the March Hare said in an encouraging tone. Alice looked all round the table, but there was nothing on it but tea. 'I don't see any wine,' she remarked. 'There isn't any,' said the March Hare. 'Then it wasn't very civil of you to offer it,' said Alice angrily. 'It wasn't very civil of you to sit down without being invited,' said the March Hare. 'I didn't know it was your table,' said Alice; 'it's laid for a great many more than three.' 'Your hair wants cutting,' said the Hatter. He had been looking at Alice for some time with great curiosity, and this was his first speech. 'You should learn not to make personal remarks,' Alice said with some severity; 'it's very rude.' The Hatter opened his eyes very wide on hearing this; but all he said was, 'Why is a raven like a writing-desk?' 'Come, we shall have some fun now!' thought Alice. 'I'm glad they've begun asking riddles.--I believe I can guess that,' she added aloud. 'Do you mean that you think you can find out the answer to it?' said the March Hare. 'Exactly so,' said Alice. 'Then you should say what you mean,' the March Hare went on. 'I do,' Alice hastily replied; 'at least--at least I mean what I say--that's the same thing, you know.' 'Not the same thing a bit!' said
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Lewis Carroll (Alice's Adventures in Wonderland)
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Take some more tea,β the March Hare said to Alice, very earnestly. βIβve had nothing yet,β Alice replied in an offended tone: βso I canβt take more.β βYou mean you canβt take less,β said the Hatter: βitβs very easy to take more than nothing.
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Lewis Carroll (Alice's Adventures in Wonderland)
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that the way you manage?' Alice asked. The Hatter shook his head mournfully. 'Not I!' he replied. 'We quarrelled last March--just before he went mad, you know--' (pointing with his tea spoon at the March Hare,) '--it was at the great concert given by the Queen of Hearts, and
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Lewis Carroll (Alice's Adventures in Wonderland)
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Down, down, down. There was nothing else to do, so Alice soon began talking again. βDinahβll miss me very much to-night, I should think!β (Dinah was the cat.) βI hope theyβll remember her saucer of milk at tea-time. Dinah my dear! I wish you were down here with me! There are no mice in the air,
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Lewis Carroll (Alice's Adventures in Wonderland)
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The table was a large one, but the three were all crowded together at one corner of it: 'No room! No room!' they cried out when they saw Alice coming. 'There's plenty of room!' said Alice indignantly, and she sat down in a large arm-chair at one end of the table.
'Have some wine,' the March Hare said in an encouraging tone.
Alice looked all round the table, but there was nothing on it but tea. 'I don't see any wine,' she remarked.
'There isn't any,' said the March Hare.
'Then it wasn't very civil of you to offer it,' said Alice angrily.
'It wasn't very civil of you to sit down without being invited,' said the March Hare.
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Lewis Carroll (Aliceβs Adventures in Wonderland / Through the Looking-Glass)
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her sister, as well as she could remember them, all these strange Adventures of hers that you have just been reading about; and when she had finished, her sister kissed her, and said, 'It was a curious dream, dear, certainly: but now run in to your tea; it's getting late.' So Alice got up and ran off, thinking while she ran, as well she might, what
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Lewis Carroll (Alice's Adventures in Wonderland)
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Oh, a tea rose, most excellent," the Dodo said, delightedly taking in their surroundings. "Just what we need."
Alice was about to admonish him for his nonsense, but of course the tea rose had fat buds that, when closed, made perfect teacups, complete with steaming, delicious-smelling tea within. Actually, a nice cuppa didn't sound too bad right then.
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Liz Braswell (Unbirthday)
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meekly replied. βYes, but some crumbs must have got in as well,β the Hatter grumbled: βyou shouldnβt have put it in with the bread-knife.β The March Hare took the watch and looked at it gloomily: then he dipped it into his cup of tea, and looked at it again: but he could think of nothing better to say than his first remark, βIt was the best butter, you know.
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Lewis Carroll (Alice's Adventures in Wonderland)
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So they were,' said the Dormouse; 'very ill.' Alice tried to fancy to herself what such an extraordinary ways of living would be like, but it puzzled her too much, so she went on: 'But why did they live at the bottom of a well?' 'Take some more tea,' the March Hare said to Alice, very earnestly. 'I've had nothing yet,' Alice replied in an offended tone, 'so I can't take more.
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Lewis Carroll (Alice's Adventures in Wonderland)
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Lizzie was leaving for Ever After High, and Shuffle was going with her, like it or not. Good-bye, family. Good-bye, hedgerow.
Good-bye, tea cakes, sugar hearts, and Cheshire chocolates!
Shuffle's dream about that fateful day faded away and was replaced by the image of a big bowl of Farmer-in-the-Dell brand granola. Granola was so boring! But ever since coming to Ever After High, Lizzie had insisted that Shuffle eat healthy snacks.
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Suzanne Selfors (Once Upon A Pet : A Collection of Little Pet Stories)
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Down, down, down. There was nothing else to do, so Alice soon began talking again. "Dinah'll miss me very much to-night, I should think!" (Dinah was the cat.) "I hope they'll remember her saucer of milk at tea-time. Dinah my dear! I wish you were down here with me! There are no mice in the air, I'm afraid, but you might catch a bat, and that's very like a mouse, you know. But do cats eat bats, I wonder?" And here Alice began to get rather sleepy, and went on saying to herself, in a dreamy sort of way, "do cats eat bats? Do cats eat bats?" and sometimes, "do bats eat cats?" for, you see, as she couldn't answer either question, it didn't much matter which way she put it. She felt that she was dozing off, and had just begun to dream that she was walking hand in hand with Dinah, and saying to her very earnestly, "Now, Dinah, tell me the truth: did you ever eat a bat?" when suddenly, thump! thump! down she came upon a heap of sticks and dry leaves, and the fall was over. Β Alice
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Lewis Carroll (Alice's Adventures in Wonderland)
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On closer notice of her apron, he said, "Is that-?"
"The Mad Hatter," she said. "I told you, I have a collection."
"You collect aprons?"
"Since I was little and my mom taught me to bake." When he smiled, she arched a brow. "Some find it charmingly quirky."
"You never wore any to Gateau."
"Shocking, I know. Because I'm certain the staff would have greatly appreciated the humor in them."
His smile twitched wider at that. "You have a point, I suppose. I must say, this dry side of you is surprisingly appealing. What does it say?" He nodded toward her apron front.
She lifted her arms away so he could read the script that accompanied the copy of an original pen and ink art rendering of the Hatter seated at a long table, holding a teacup aloft.
"YOU'RE NEVER TOO OLD TO HAVE A TEA PARTY," he read out loud, then smiled at her. "I rather agree. You make a charming and somewhat more quirky Alice than I'd have expected. I seem to recall Alice spent the better part of her time being irritated and flustered, too. Perhaps if I'd come bearing tea and crumpets, with a bewildered, bespectacled white rabbit clutching a pocketwatch in his paw, you'd have been more willing to give me the time of day.
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Donna Kauffman (Sugar Rush (Cupcake Club #1))
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The March Hare took the watch and looked at it gloomily: then he dipped it into his cup of tea, and looked at it again: but he could think of nothing better to say than his first remark, 'It was the best butter, you know.' Alice had been looking over his shoulder with some curiosity. 'What a funny watch!' she remarked. 'It tells the day of the month, and doesn't tell what o'clock it is!' 'Why should it?' muttered the Hatter. 'Does your watch tell you what year it is?' 'Of course not,' Alice replied very readily: 'but that's because it stays the same year for such a long time together.' 'Which is just the case with mine,' said the Hatter. Alice felt dreadfully puzzled. The Hatter's remark seemed to have no sort of meaning in it, and yet it was certainly English. 'I don't quite understand you,' she said, as politely as she could. 'The Dormouse is asleep again,' said the Hatter, and he poured a little hot tea upon its nose. The Dormouse shook its head impatiently, and said, without opening its eyes, 'Of course, of course; just what I was going to remark myself.' 'Have you guessed the riddle yet?' the Hatter said, turning to Alice again. 'No, I give it up,' Alice replied: 'what's the answer?' 'I haven't the slightest idea,' said the Hatter. 'Nor I,' said the March Hare. Alice sighed wearily. 'I think you might do something better with the time,' she said, 'than waste it in asking riddles that have no answers.' 'If you knew Time as well as I do,' said the Hatter, 'you wouldn't talk about wasting it.
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Lewis Carroll (Alice's Adventures in Wonderland)
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Let us take them in order. The first is the taste, Which is meagre and hollow, but crisp: Like a coat that is rather too tight in the waist, With a flavour of Will-o'-the-wisp. ββββββββ "Its habit of getting up late you'll agree That it carries too far, when I say That it frequently breakfasts at five-o'clock tea, And dines on the following day. ββββββββ "The third is its slowness in taking a jest. Should you happen to venture on one, It will sigh like a thing that is deeply distressed: And it always looks grave at a pun. ββββββββ "The fourth is its fondness for bathing-machines, Which is constantly carries about, And believes that they add to the beauty of scenesβ A sentiment open to doubt. ββββββββ "The fifth is ambition. It next will be right To describe each particular batch: Distinguishing those that have feathers, and bite, And those that have whiskers, and scratch.
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Lewis Carroll (Alice in Wonderland Collection β All Four Books: Alice in Wonderland, Alice Through the Looking Glass, Hunting of the Snark and Alice Underground (Illustrated))
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Then she began again. βI wonder if I will fall right through the earth! It will be so funny to come out among the people that walk with their heads downward! The Antipathies, I thinkβ¦β (she was glad that there was no one listening, this time, as it didnβt sound like the right word at all) ββ¦but I shall have to ask them what the name of the country is. Please maβam, is this New Zealand or Australia?β (and she tried to curtsey as she spokeβimagine curtseying as youβre falling through the air! Do you think you could manage it?) βAnd what an ignorant little girl sheβll think I am for asking that! No, I canβt ask. May be I will see it written up somewhere.β Down, down, down the well. Alice got bored and soon began talking again. βDinahβll miss me very much tonight, I should think!β (Dinah was her cat). βI hope theyβll remember to give her a saucer of milk at tea-time. Dinah, my dear! I wish you were down here with me. Iβm afraid, there are no mice in the air, but you might catch a bat, and thatβs very much like a mouse, you know. But do cats eat bats, I wonder?
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Lewis Carroll (Alice in Wonderland)
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Cooking for the students and staff at Ever After High wasn't an easy feat, because there were so many palates to please. For example, fairies were known to have finicky appetites and preferred delicate, crustless sandwiches. Those from Wonderland insisted on hot tea with every meal. The vegetarians wanted organic salad bar options, while the Track and Shield team liked chowing down on heaping plates of barbecued ribs with smashed pumpkin.
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Suzanne Selfors (Kiss and Spell (Ever After High: A School Story, #2))
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My second meeting with Vincent Starrett began on a cool Sunday afternoon in May of 1962. After a short interlude, he returned from the kitchen precariously balancing a large cup of tea on a very small saucer. It was the largest tea cup I had ever seen, large enough to startle, I am inclined to suspect, even the Mad Hatter in 'Alice in Wonderland.
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Peter Ruber (The Last Bookman)