Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland

fire in the fireplace, and she was quite pleased to find that there was a real one, and blazing away as brightly as the one she had left behind

it takes all the running you can do, to keep in the same place

It’s my opinion you never think at all

Sentence first – verdict afterwards

besides, that’s not a regular rule: you invented it just now.’
‘It’s the oldest rule in the book

Well, I never heard it before,’ said the Mock Turtle; ‘but it sounds uncommon nonsense

It’s all his fancy

It’s all her fancy

They’re dreadfully fond of beheading people here; the great wonder is that there’s anyone left alive!

seemed to have no meaning in it