Dictation Sentences from Alice in Wonderland
Level D: Lists 26-36

List 33

  1. The cook threw a pan after her as she went out, but it just missed her. 
  2. She hardly knew what she was saying. 

List 34

  1. “You’d better not talk,” said Five. 
  2. You’d better ask her about it. 
  3. Yes, I think you’d better leave off. 
  4. I am older than you, and must know better. 
  5. You’d better not do that again! 
  6. It didn’t matter much which way she put it.
  7. What does it matter to me whether you’re a little girl? 
  8. Alice looked into its face to see what was the matter with it. 
  9. “Then it doesn’t matter which way you go,” said the Cat. 
  10. It’ll sit up and beg for its dinner, and all sorts of things. 
  11. Suddenly a White Rabbit with pink eyes ran close by her. 
  12. Now I can do no more, whatever happens. 
  13. It might make me smaller, I suppose. 
  14. I suppose you’ll be telling me next that you never tasted an egg! 
  15. As it’s asleep, I suppose it doesn’t mind. 
  16. But why did they live at the bottom of a well? 
  17. They sat down very sadly and quietly, and looked at Alice. 
  18. She is such a dear quiet thing. 
  19. She waited to see what would happen next. 

List 35

  1. Into this they slipped the pig, head first, and then sat on it. 
  2. As she said these words her foot slipped. 
  3. It was only a mouse that had slipped in like herself. 
  4. And she went on planning to herself how she would do it. 
  5. Where CAN I have dropped them? 
  6. They all stopped and looked at Alice, and the Queen said, “Who is this?” 
  7. Oh my, how late it’s getting! 
  8. I really must be getting home. 
  9. There seemed to be no chance of her ever getting out of the room again. 
  10. Suddenly a footman came running out of the wood. 
  11. With tears running down his cheeks, he went on again. 
  12. For the Mouse was swimming away from her as hard as it could go. 
  13. Alice was beginning to see its meaning. 
  14. But what happens when you come to the beginning again? 
  15. She was beginning to grow larger again. 
  16. “Begin at the beginning,” the King said, “and go on until you come to the end, then stop.” 

List 36

  1. She set off at once, and ran until she was quite tired. 
  2. They began running when they liked, and left off when they liked, so that it was not easy to know when the race was over. 
  3. They lived at the bottom of a well. 
  4. You may not have lived much under the sea. 
  5. “But I’m not used to it,” said Alice. 
  6. “You’ll get used to it in time,” he said. 
  7. He used to come once a week. 
  8. I’ll try if I know all the things I used to know. 
  9. And so she went on, taking first one side and then the other. 
  10. They began moving about again. 
  11. She was moving them about as she spoke. 
  12. Then you keep moving round, I suppose. 
  13. “You couldn’t have wanted it too much,” said Alice, “living at the bottom of the sea.” 
  14. It ran away when it saw mine coming. 
  15. Alice knew it was the Rabbit coming to look for her. 

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