Dictation Sentences from Peter Pan
Level E: Lists 37-47

List 37

1. Now there was nothing she would not do for him.
2. They said nothing, but their eyes asked her to have them.
3. But they could see nothing.
4. "Nobody wants me," he said.
5. He loved to have everything just so.
6. After that it followed her about everywhere.
7. Something inside her was crying.
8. Sometimes I do still.
9. Tink was not all bad. She was all bad just now, but, on the other hand, sometimes she was all good.
10. No one is going to catch me and make me a man.
11. The little stars were watching them.
12. No watch was kept on the ship.
13. Time what happened by your watch.
14. She stretched out her arms to him.
15. They could not help kicking a little.
16. The fact is that they are all a little fat just now, but in time they will work this off.
17. These things scared her a little.
18. "I was just thinking," he said, a little scared.
19. There was another little boy sleeping in my bed.
20. They eyes of all were on the plank, that last little walk they were about to take.
21. Well, then, come with me to the little house.
22. They are so little that a short time seems a good while to them.
23. Peter was no more to her than a little dust in the box in which she had kept her toys.
24. Does it fly the way you flew when you were a little girl?
25. He was a little boy, and she was grown up.
26. Yes, and the little girl in the bed is my baby.

List 38

1. At once her hand went out to cover his mouth.
2. The bird covered her face with her wings, so as not to see the last of them.
3. However many you discover there is always one more.
4. I forget whether they found it, but at any rate they found corners, and they all fitted in.
5. Tink called out from somewhere round the corner.
6. The big things happened just when he had stepped round the corner.
7. Many animals pass from land to water.
8. The nest fell into the water, and still the bird sat on her eggs.
9. The real Hook was also in the water.
10. He rose dripping from the water.
11. You called over the water to us to let her go.
12. It was not in the water that they met.
13. "We are on the rock, Wendy," he said, "but it is growing smaller. Soon the water will be over it."
14. You have been wonderfully quick.
15. The little ones still wonder.
16. "Oh Peter, no wonder you were crying," she said, and got out of bed and ran to him.
17. All looked at him in wonder, save Nibs.
18. "Am I not a wonder? Oh, I am a wonder!" he said.
19. Still it is best to be careful.
20. "How awful!" she said, but she could not help smiling.
21. "It's awfully sad," the first twin said.
22. The past year was but as yesterday to Peter.
23. Fling the girl overboard.

List 39

1. One of the first things Peter did the next day was to measure Wendy.
2. This trick had been in his head all the time.
3. She had laid her head on the box, and two tears were sitting on her eyes.
4. Peter, you see, just said anything that came into his head.
5. Here and there a head bobbed up in the water.
6. It was one of those boys you hate. I could have shot him dead.
7. Take him dead or alive!
8. She is not dead, is she?
9. They always went down instead of up.
10. He had pleasant names for everything.
11. There is nothing more pleasant of an evening for you and me than to rest by the fire with the little ones near by.
12. He had found the thing for which he had gone in search.
13. It would have been sad if those had been the first words he heard his little boy say.
14. I wish he would come back, and tell us whether he has heard anything more about her.
15. You and I would have heard nothing, but they heard it, and it was a grim song.
16. If Wendy's heard had been beating they would all have heard it.
17. They heard a sound which made the heart of every one of them rise to his mouth. They heard Peter crow.
18. "I don't want to go to school and learn things," he told her. "I don't want to be a man."

List 40

1. If we meet Hook in open fight, you must leave him to me.
2. The fight was short and sharp.
3. It would not have been fighting fair.
4. Hook was fighting now without hope.
5. Wendy had stood by taking no part in the fight.
6. "Then tell her," Wendy begged, "to put out her light."
7. "Something blew out the light," he said.
8. Sometimes it was dark and sometimes light, and now they were very cold and again too warm.
9. He was so light that if you got behind him and blew he went faster.
10. It made this light by flashing about so quickly.
11. He might say a great deal about it, and yet you could not find the body.
12. For all the use we are to her, we might as well go back to the ship.
13. She wanted to risk it, come what might, but that was not his way.
14. Wendy, Wendy, when you are sleeping in your bed you might be flying about with me saying funny things to the stars.
15. She herself slept that night in the little house, and Peter kept watch outside.
16. All night they sat above, keeping watch over the home under the ground.
17. "I don't think I see anything tonight," says Wendy.
18. The last thing he ever said to me was, "Just always be waiting for me, and then some night you will hear me."
19. You were quite glad that the night lights were on.
20. We'll right the ship when she's gone.
21. Mr. and Mrs. Darling do not go out for the evening.

List 41

1. It brought him to his feet at once, all traces of weakness gone.
2. "She wants me to unbar the window," thought Peter, "but I won't, not I!"
3. She thought Peter sometimes came in the night and sat on the foot of her bed and played on his pipes to her.
4. She thought he was killed, and she ran down into the street to look for his little body, but it was not there. She looked up, and in the black night she could see nothing but what she thought was a shooting star.
5. When she was old enough to ask them they were mostly about Peter Pan.
6. It was planned by them before we left the ship.
7. I think I have been here before.
8. As for Peter, he saw Wendy once again before he flew away.
9. "You won't forget me, Peter, will you, before spring cleaning time comes."
10. "I'll bring it," and she was off before he could stop her.
11. Because, if so, we can go away.
12. He had friends at night.
13. They are not really friendly to Peter.
14. He was so light that if you got behind him and blew he went faster.

List 42

1. He had his first laugh still.
2. He laughed, but in a hollow way.
3. He believed longer than the other boys, though they laughed at him.
4. Later he caught the word Peter.
5. As they lay side by side, something caught Wendy by the feet, and began pulling her softly into the water.
6. Of course all the boys went to school.
7. Of course no one really knows, but he quite seemed to know.
8. Of course she was very pleased to be asked, but she said, "Oh dear, I can't."
9. Of course I could do it again, and make it the best out of three.
10. Of course Peter should have kept quiet, but of course he did not.
11. There should have been a fourth night light.
12. His head almost filled the fourth wall of her little room.
13. Then everything was right. No, stop! Everything was wrong.

List 43

1. But, my dear, it is ten days till Thursday week.
2. Of course it was a Friday.
3. It was not really Saturday night, at least it may have been, for they had long lost count of the days.
4. They found they hurt themselves when they let go of the bus.
5. We return to them as their mouths close, and their arms fall to their sides.
6. He would have returned up the tree, but for one thing.
7. His plan was to turn her face so that she should see the boys walking the plank one by one.
8. She said she hoped his head would not be turned by it.
9. "I will turn up the light," she said, "and then you can see for yourself."
10. Then she turned up the light, and Peter saw.
11. Make believe was so real to him that during a meal of it you could see him getting rounder.
12. Now surely he would understand, but not a bit of it.
13. She was sure that he must be Peter, but it did seem a short name.
14. "Surely you know what a kiss is?" she asked.
15. Their friend the sun wanted them to be sure of their way before leaving them for the night.
16. But she was never quite sure, you know.
17. I am not sure that this was true, but Peter thought it was true, and it scared them.

List 44

1. She could not fly so slowly as they, and so she had to go round and round them in a circle.
2. The first to fall out of the moving circle was the boys.
3. He drew a circle around him on the ground and dared them to cross it.
4. They ran into the middle of the street to look up at the window.
5. "But won't they think us a handful?" Nibs asked in the middle of his jump.
6. Peter, however, was not the kind that breaks down before other people.
7. When people grow up they forget the way.
8. Mrs. Darling left the room to get a chocolate for him.
9. This sometimes troubled them, as when they had to make believe they had had their dinner.
10. Strange that he should think of this, which had never troubled him before.
11. They knew at once that something terrible was happening, and without a goodbye they rushed into the street.
12. There is something terrible in there.
13. Sometimes he did not remember them, at least not well.
14. He thinks he remembers the days before he was lost.
15. By and by he remembered that the clock had not been ticking.
16. No sooner did Peter remember it than he heard the ticking.
17. "Don't you remember," she asked, "how you killed him and saved all our lives?"
18. They lay there in the sun while she sat beside them and looked important.
19. "As I can't be anything important," he said, "would any of you like to see me do a trick?"
20. On the other hand, if they are not in time, I promise that it will all come right in the end.
21. Of course Peter promised, and then he flew away.

List 45

1. They were all too busy looking their best.
2. Then at last they all got into bed for Wendy's story, the story they loved best, the story Peter hated.
3. That was the story, and they were as pleased with it as she was.
4. It was the spring of the year, and the story had been told for the night, and Jane was now asleep in her bed.
5. Did they really feel hungry at times?
6. It was lucky that she did put it there, for it was to save her life.
7. Of course I'm very sorry, but how could I know you were in the drawer?
8. "Let us carry her down into the house," he said.
9. Why should it not carry you?
10. "I forgot," said Wendy lightly. She was in a hurry to get her breakfast.
11. I am happy to tell you, Mrs. Darling, that you are now a mother.
12. She tied the unhappy dog up again, but do you think Nana stopped barking?
13. "I don't see how it can have a happy ending," said the second twin.
14. The unhappy Hook was as powerless as he was damp.
15. It showed the unhappy Hook that Peter did not know in the least who or what he was.
16. But she would not make the best of it, and he was unhappy.

List 46

1. Wendy, who always liked to do the right thing, asked Peter how old he was.
2. The window must always be left open for them, always, always.
3. I want always to be a little boy and to have fun.
4. "I always cut their hair myself," said Wendy.
5. You always know after you are two. Two is the beginning of the end.
6. There was almost nothing he could not do.
7. In surprise they raised their heads. Their faces were almost touching, so they met.
8. "We must go," she said, almost brightly.
9. Peter reached the home under the ground almost as soon as Wendy.
10. The lateness of the hour was almost the biggest thing of all.
11. For almost the only time in his life that I know of, Peter was afraid.
12. Of course he was on the floor already.
13. They are already in their home under the ground.
14. The youngest one had already forgotten his home.
15. Always, if you see me forgetting you, just keep on saying, "I'm Wendy," and then I'll remember.
16. In the old days at home the Neverland had always begun to look a little dark by bedtime.
17. We hear them before they are seen, and it is always the same thing.
18. These boys are always swimming about there, playing.
19. He would come down laughing over something funny he had been saying to a star, but he had already forgotten what it was.
20. Leave it alone, and it will blow over.
21. They found themselves alone in the darkness.
22. This man alone seemed to be a match for them all.
23. "Yes," said Peter, "but we are lonely."
24. Tinker Bell will take you across the sea.
25. No one can fly unless the fairy dust has been blown on him.
26. "What a funny address?"
27. While that smile was on his face, no one would address him.
28. He was carrying the game too far, and the others saw their chance.

List 47

1. Mrs. Darling put her hand to her heart and cried, "Oh, why can't you stay like this forever?"
2. "Oh, Peter," she cried, "if she would only stand still and let me see her!"
3. "Wake up," she cried. "Peter Pan has come and he is to teach us to fly."
4. "Out with the light! Hide! Quick!" cried John.
5. "I've got it now," cried John, but soon he found he had not. Not one of them could fly an inch.
6. "You are too late," he cried. "I have shot the Wendy. Peter will be so pleased with me."
7. "What is it, Peter?" she cried, running to him, thinking he was ill.
8. "It will be worse than before she came," they cried.
9. "I won't open unless you speak," Peter cried.
10. "What is the matter with you?" cried Peter, suddenly afraid.
11. He cried in his sleep a long time, and Wendy held him tightly.
12. You see, I don't know any stories. None of the lost boys knows any stories.
13. The stories they told, before it was time for Wendy's good night story.
14. Peter was so glad that he rose from the floor, where they had been sitting, and hurried to the window.
15. He had carried Tinker Bell part of the way, and his hand was still messy with the fairy dust.
16. On the top, beautifully aired, are spread out your prettier thoughts ready for you to put on.
17. It was already her easiest way of moving about.
18. By telling you what's what, we can save you ten days of unhappiness.
19. Stars are beautiful, but they may not take a part in anything, they must just look on forever.
20. She liked his tears so much that she put out her beautiful finger and let them run over it.
21. They were sorry for him, but sorrier for themselves, and when he took a step nearer them they turned from him.

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