 that intolerable pedant asked, " • What does it mean ? ' " ' Must a name mean something ? ' Alice asked doubtfully. " ' Of course it must,' Humpty Dumpty said, with a short laugh. ' My name means the shape I am, — and a good handsome shape  The Atlantic Monthly - Page 6731898Full view - About this book
 | Lewis Carroll - Adventure and adventurers - 1897 - 232 pages
...business." " My name is Alice, but—" " It's a stupid name enough!" Humpty Dumpty interrupted impatiently. "What does it mean ? " " Must a name mean something...said with a short laugh: "my name means the shape I am—and a good handsome shape it is, too. With a name like yours, you might be any shape almost."... | |
 | Lewis Carroll - Adventure and adventurers - 1897 - 252 pages
...interrupted impatiently. “What does it mean?” “Must a name mean something?” Alice asl¿:ed doubtfully. “Of course it must,” Humpty Dumpty said with a short laugh: “¿y name means the shape I am—and a good handsome shape it is, too. With a name like yours, you... | |
 | Frederick Brigham De Berard - Literature - 1902 - 422 pages
...business." "My name is Alice, but " "It's a stupid name enough!" Humpty Dumpty interrupted impatiently. "What does it mean?" "Must a name mean something?"...said, with a short laugh; "my name means the shape I am—and a good, handsome shape it is, too. With a name like yours, you might be any shape, almost."... | |
 | Lewis Carroll - Alice (Fictitious character : Carroll) - 1902 - 332 pages
...stupid name enough!" Humpty Dumpty interrupted, impair' tiently. "What does it mean?" 108 HUMPTY DUMPTY "Must a name mean something?" Alice asked, doubtfully....said, with a short laugh ; "my name means the shape I am—and a good, handsome shape it is, too. With a name like yours, you might be any shape, almost."... | |
 | Lewis Carroll - Alice (Fictitious character : Carroll) - 1902 - 340 pages
...but—" "It's a stupid name enough!" Humpty Dumpty interrupted, impatiently. " What does it mean?" 108 "Must a name mean something?" Alice asked, doubtfully....said, with a short laugh; "my name means the shape I am—and a good, handsome shape'it is, too. With a name like yours, you might be any shape, almost."... | |
 | Samuel McChord Crothers - Books and reading - 1903 - 348 pages
...definitions are to be looked upon as luxuries, not as necessities. When Alice told her name to Humpty Dumpty, that intolerable pedant asked, — "' What does it...means the shape I am, — and a good handsome shape it is, too.' " I suppose that almost any man, if he were asked what a gentleman is, would answer with... | |
 | Samuel McChord Crothers - Books and reading - 1912 - 356 pages
...definitions are to be looked upon as luxuries, not as necessities. When Alice told her name to Humpty Dumpty, that intolerable pedant asked, — " ' "What does...means the shape I am, — and a good handsome shape it is, too.' " I suppose that almost any man, if he were asked what a gentleman is, would answer with... | |
 | Samuel McChord Crothers - Books and reading - 1903 - 350 pages
...definitions are to be looked upon as luxuries, not as necessities. When Alice told her name to Humpty Dumpty, that intolerable pedant asked, — " 'What does it...means the shape I am, — and a good handsome shape it is, too.' " I suppose that almost any man, if he were asked what a gentleman is, would answer with... | |
 | Samuel McChord Crothers - Books and reading - 1903 - 346 pages
...definitions are to be looked upon as luxuries, not as necessities. When Alice told her name to Humpty Dumpty, that intolerable pedant asked, — " ' What does it...means the shape I am, — and a good handsome shape it is, too.'-" I suppose that almost any man, if he were asked what a gentleman is, would answer with... | |
 | Frederick Brigham De Berard - Literature - 1905 - 330 pages
...business." "My name is Alice, but " "It's a stupid name enough!" Humpty Dumpty interrupted impatiently. "What does it mean?" "Must a name mean something?"...said, with a short laugh; "my name means the shape I am—and a good, handsome shape it is, too. With a name like yours, you might be any shape, almost."... | |
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