Sylvie and BrunoA fantasy in which two little children meet adventure in such places as Dogland, Outland, and Elfland. |
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added afraid arms Arthur asked Baron began Chancellor child common children course cried Bruno Crocodile darling dear dindledums Dogland door doubt Earl ears Elveston enquired Eric exclaimed explained eyes face Fairy feeling fessor flowers Frogs gentle gone gravely hand happy HARRY FURNISS hastily head hear heard hope interrupted King Lear kiss Lady Muriel laughed Least Common Multiple LEWIS CARROLL lips little fellow look Lord Chancellor mean mind minute mouse mouth never night once oo know Outland poor Professor Queen's Evidence question remarked replied round seemed shouted silence sing smile song Sub-Warden suppose sure sweet Sylvie and Bruno Sylvie's talking tell there's thing thought ting tone took turned Uggug utter Vice-Warden voice wait walk WALTER CRANE Warden Watch welly what's whispered window words
Popular passages
Page 187 - He either fears ,his fate too much, Or his deserts are small, Who dares not put it to the touch, To win or lose it all.
Page xxi - He prayeth well, who loveth well Both man and bird and beast. He prayeth best, who loveth best All things both great and small; For the dear God who loveth us, He made and loveth all.
Page 120 - He thought he saw a Coach-and-Four That stood beside his bed : He looked again, and found it was A Bear without a Head. "Poor thing,
Page 162 - He thought he saw an Albatross That fluttered round the lamp: He looked again, and found it was A Penny-Postage-Stamp. "You'd best be getting home," he said: "The nights are very damp!
Page 104 - He thought he saw a Kangaroo That worked a coffee-mill: He looked again, and found it was A Vegetable-Pill. "Were I to swallow this," he said, "I should be very ill!
Page 270 - the doing good to mankind, in obedience to the will of God, and for the sake of everlasting happiness.
Page 81 - He thought he saw a Rattlesnake That questioned him in Greek: He looked again, and found it was The Middle of Next Week. MODERN HUMOR "The one thing I regret," he said, "Is that it cannot speak!
Page 269 - Surely the Lord is in this place. This is none other but the house of God, and this is the gate of heaven.
Page 88 - He thought he saw a Banker's Clerk Descending from the 'bus: He looked again, and found it was A Hippopotamus. "If this should stay to dine," he said, "There won't be much for us!
Page 398 - I2mo, cloth, gilt, $1.50. This book is a reprint, with additions, of the comic portions of " Phantasmagoria, and other Poems," and of the " Hunting of the Snark." A TANGLED TALE. Reprinted from the Monthly Packet, with Illustrations. $1.50. ALICE'S ADVENTURES UNDERGROUND. Being a fac-simile of the original MS. Book, afterward developed into " Alice's Adventures in Wonderland.